Beckers Not a Military Thing...?

C_Tanner said:
All they care about nowadays is having the latest eotech holo sight and surefire weaponlght and some Magpul accessories. Knives are just an afterthought in case you need to stab someone. Striders (blah!) and Emersons are all the rage, but they aren't really utility knives, they are expenive-ass cool kids club knives....good, but I wouldn't buy one. Noone worries about the quality and functionality of a knife anymore. Just stick the pointy end in the bad guys chest. Even a Cold Steel can do that.

War in the future will be waged by fat kids with xbox controlllers. Who needs knives?
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:( :grumpy: Sad, but true !
 
Actually there are two Beckers with National Stock Numbers (NSN's) the Campanion Bk2 SG and the Tactul BK 3 SG with the SG standing for Special Government......The BK 2 is partially serrated as per military request.......The Army quit buying them after Camillus went tits up and never got back in the habit.....l.

Military personnel private purchases are a big part of our business actually and this makes me damn proud.......Very proud indeed........

The Seven was designed specifically to "modernise" the venerable marine combat or KaBar ......I did this at the request of Will Fennell who was new products guy at Camillus back then.... the Combat Bowie was very loosely patterned on a knife designed by Bill Moran for then NRA pubs writer, editor Ken Warner when he wanted an 'Any thing, Anywhere blade when he went to Vietnam as an NRA correspondent.........Americans have been carrying big Bowies to war since the Mexican War and, with good reason.......They are hellatiously useful camp and field tools and if ya gotta stick somebody they will do the job.....

All Best.....

Ethan
 
Doogoon said:
Beckers are more outdoors, camp and woods knives. I can't imagine Becker knives being very efficient out in the field.

Maybe a BK11, but I think anything else would be pushing it.
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Bk 7 combat bk9 combat utility knife ring a bell?
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Proved me wrong.

However I doubt that I would ever find an officer or unit around here that would let me carry a Becker knife on course or during deployment.

Canadian forces for you.
 
Doogoon said:
Proved me wrong.

However I doubt that I would ever find an officer or unit around here that would let me carry a Becker knife on course or during deployment.

Canadian forces for you.
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Hey you shut your mouth when you are talking to Mr. Becker! Lol JK :D
 
I ordered a Campanion while deployed to Bosnia in '96 with the Air Force. I think I ordered it from an AG Russell catalog that got dropped outside of the pax terminal. It took over the spot on my belt occupied by a USAF pilot's survival knife. No weird looks, no comments from the chain about the big, black sheath hanging there. Heavier but not bad, but it was a beast! Still have it, made some new scales and removed the original, ugly gray paint finish.
 
I would have loved to have something like the BK-11 back when I served in the early '90s. I didn't use my issued bayonet much; it was all about the plain ol' SAK I carried...
 
once upon about 7 years ago, when My brother was at MCRD San Diego I asked this guy at work (who had recently gotten back from Iraq) what a good knife to have would be for a marine about to deploy. I know this is hard to follow maybe but i've had wine, and some beer. He told me about this magical blade called a tac tool made by becker. he said it was beast of a blade that they used to rip doors off of hinges and to punch hole in 55 gal drums as well as tearing apart crates of all sorts. Anyways I got him one, he used it a bunch and when he was done with it I asked him for it back, and it was beat to piss. true story
 
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There's a good reason you don't find Beckers for sale in the PX system - if you can't clamshell pack it and hang it on a peg you can't sell it!
 
I personally carry my BK2 to the field on my kit. June was three weeks of training and it was used extesnively. My BK11 was on my belt and used it everyday. I have found multiple military applications for them.
 
northingeasting said:
There's a good reason you don't find Beckers for sale in the PX system - if you can't clamshell pack it and hang it on a peg you can't sell it!
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Surely you jest. Could easily hang on peg with string from lanyard hole. Don't tell me that would be too much work !!! LOL :D
 
Awesome to get feedback straight from the source per se, and glad that the Becker knives are well and popular among military folk. It also seems that my experience is similar to others here in that the BK line isn't really offered on and around bases for the most part.
 
PREFACE: I'm a fan of Beckers and can definitely see them being useful in certain military applications.
BUT...the only fixed blades I've seen carried on IOTV's and
plate carriers are the little "last ditch" daggers from gerber and smith & wesson.
I attribute this to how cheap these sorts of knives are compared to knives like Beckers, the fact that we get issued gerber multitools for 90% of the chores we use a knife for, and from a down range perspective the first thought that comes to mind is " gee as an E1-E4, do I want to spend my 75$+ on a knife that adds 2lbs that I dont have a need for to my already near 175lbs of kit, or will I buy a shit ton of beer and an Xbox game?" lol.
Not to mention most squads and even teams have SOP against carrying "Rambo" sized knives.
Just my .02 cents and this is strictly in the Army today. Couldn't tell you about the other branches.
 
northingeasting said:
There's a good reason you don't find Beckers for sale in the PX system - if you can't clamshell pack it and hang it on a peg you can't sell it!
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If Becker makes the sales pitch to AAFES HQ (Dallas area last I knew), and they accept it and/or AAFES gets enough requests for them to carry Beckers, then they will start showing up in PX/BX stores. There may already be an "in" since we have K-Bars hanging on the BX shelf, but I'm not a contracting expert, so I don't know all the details about the hows/whys/prereqs of AAFES carrying a particular line.
 
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