Originally Posted by
kyratshooter
My most used knives are two Green River ripper blades. One has horn slabs and rides on my belt rig for reenactment and all my primitive camping. The other is in the knife block on my kitchen counter.
Like the old time MM I use my GR knife multiple times daily. I wake in the AM and the GR blade is in my hand before I have been awake 5 minutes. It slices and dices, fellits, slabs cleans, skins and does everything I require of a daily use knife. And guess what? That is the main use of a knife in any outdoor activity. A belt knife is not a shovel, or a crowbar, or an axe.
The Dadley pattern is sometimes called less historic than the other patterns, but there are several references to the MM fighting off Indian attacks with their "Dadley knives". The other designs are specific to different countries standard use knives that were brought to North America as trade goods.
The Dadley blade is a bit too wide and the point too blunt for my needs. As I said, I prefer the ripper. Nice thing is that there is a GR blade for every preference.
These are the real survival knives that kept people alive when white men were killed for sport and game was killed to keep you fed.
