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CRKT Hissatsu field experience ?
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I carried a Hissatsu on my last trip to the sandbox. I wore attached to my chest rig. As a general rule, Arabs are more afraid of a large knife or ax than they are a gun. I usually got lots of attention when making "requests" of the locals. I sometimes left the blade in the vehicle when I was doing something more delicate. For example, I was speaking with a pillar of the community who had no known affiliation with the bad guys.
Remember this though, the Hissatsu was designed for the single purpose of killing. It doesn't make for a good field or utilitarian knife.
Remember this though, the Hissatsu was designed for the single purpose of killing. It doesn't make for a good field or utilitarian knife.
My opinion mirrors that. For it's intended purpose, it makes a pretty good knife and is reasonably stout. Thick blade and full tang. The way the handle is designed means the lack of guard shouldn't make it too disadvantaged
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Im not a soldier or a sand rat, but I have put the Hissatsu through its paces.
1.) It wont hold an edge for long
2.) It will get extremely sharp when the edge is thinned and convexed
3.) With a FIRM GRASP it will completely puncture a 3/8th sheet of plywood (thumb on hilt...if you weigh less than 180lbs dont try this or you'll cut your palm into hamburger).
4.) In martial craft it is a superb weapon, Ive got some experience there.
5.) My nightstand has an XD .45 Tactical, Surefire, and wedged between my mattress and box springs is a CRKT Hissatsu.
1.) It wont hold an edge for long
2.) It will get extremely sharp when the edge is thinned and convexed
3.) With a FIRM GRASP it will completely puncture a 3/8th sheet of plywood (thumb on hilt...if you weigh less than 180lbs dont try this or you'll cut your palm into hamburger).
4.) In martial craft it is a superb weapon, Ive got some experience there.
5.) My nightstand has an XD .45 Tactical, Surefire, and wedged between my mattress and box springs is a CRKT Hissatsu.
sorry for my english, "field" meant "on the combat zone" ...
Yep, the big blade on your vest or thigh commands respect and I know more than one guy who picked up some form of tomahawk (CQC-T, VTAC, etc) just so they'd scare the shit out of people...obviously they weren't doing civil affairs
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...obviously they weren't doing civil affairs
Very little of what I did over there was Civil.
Speaking of the Hissatsu though, I've spent a great deal of time studying various fighting arts, including time with James Williams. James is the designer of the hissatsu. James and I spent one evening over a couple Boddington's talking about blades and bladed combat. His thoughts about the hissatsu is that the blade doesn't have to be razor sharp or made of any super steel. It should be easy to sharpen, so a softer temper is just fine. A cut with a blade that is less than razor sharp will inflict more pain, have a greater wound channel and will typically bleed more. All are pluses if you're going to have to use a blade for social work.
Just my two cents though..
Berdar
How is it that a cut with a duller knife should bleed more? I'm not so sure about that. Just yesterday at work I nicked myself with an extremely sharp knife. The cut was only about a millimeter long but it bled enough to cover my middle and index fingers in blood. It stopped bleeding quickly but it certainly didn't bleed less than the times I've got cut with dull knives.
I'm also skeptical about the "greater wound channel" part. A sharper knife cuts deeper more easily. Slicing through muscles, arteries, and blood-bearing organs is what counts even when stabbing. A sharper blade also drags much less as it passes through making stabbing deeper in flesh easier.
i agree with some of that, the fact that it need'nt be S30V or something if the main use is SD for one, & being a little softer isnt neccesarily bad for a SD knife, but i dont know about the duller knife creating a larger wound channel, that doesnt make sense, its not been my experience cutting steaks and roasts anyway. imho a SD knife should be as sharp as ya can get it.
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A knife is dull when the edge becomes smooth, smooth doesn't tear well. You might argue that point with a badly nicked or damaged edge, that might tear flesh. If that was the purpose of the knife, to pierce and tear flesh, wouldn't it have made more sense for it to be serrated? I would rather have the sharpest knife I can get for self defence work. Out of all the arguments I see about knives for self-defence, one thing most aggree on is that your knife should be as sharp as possible. Try to cut tomato flesh for example, a dull knife doesn't want to break the skin, it just slides off, but a very sharp knife will glide right through.
I can see the logic of the "toothy" edge ripping flesh and causing a large wound channel as such when you sharpen a machete with a medium file but at the same time skin is taught (sp?) and in all the large deep cuts I've inflicted (or received) they always open up VERY wide, and in areas such as the stomach well you know what pokes out.
A duller knife takes more force to work its way through. This results in a shallower wound. "Ripping" and "tearing" are nothing but rancid buckets of fail that should have been a cut. A dull knife is inefficient and simply less effective than a sharp knife. A cut from a sharp knife bleeds more, it bleeds faster, and it reaches deeper. This can mean the difference between a bad scratch and disembowelment or the difference between a superficial wound and the effective destruction of one of the victim's limbs.
Which heals slower and hurts worse, a small hole punched in the stomach or a massive wound channel carving through the stomach, liver, and heart?
Who cares about pain? You don't use a knife like the Hissatsu to hurt someone; you use it to put them down like a dog. Any method of using such a knife for such a purpose that relies on pain is stupid. You need muscle failure that eliminates the ability to function, nervous system destruction, or massive blood loss into the lungs and onto the ground.
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Two questions: What does a rancid bucket of fail smell like? Where would one find such a bucket?
And when putting down a dog, is it necessary to stab them until their muscles fail?
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Done with Dark-Ops knives of course?
A rancid bucket of fail is what happens when the drain under the iced teas in the lobby of your local McDonalds lead not to plumbing but rather to a bucket and that bucket starts to rot.
Calling the victim a dog was just an expression. Reducing mobility by severing muscles is one of only three possibly ways that can be counted on to drop a man to the ground for good.
