Is this a real Mad Dog 1995 Vintage ATAK knife

[Bladegunner]

I think I will probably sell the knife as I really wasn't looking for one and just happened upon it.
I guess I should get a paid membership and list it here. Although it seems like lots of folks on this forum are down on
Mad Dog knifes.

 

[BladeScout]

Not the knives per se.

The ridiculous prices and hype.

Further more some dont seem too fond of things having been said by the guy behind the knives - you know, the child prodigy.

From "Dark Genius"

Raised in the San Francisco Bay area in the late 60's, McClung was the son of an aeronautical engineering genius and gave early proof of his own prodigious grip on ``mechanix'' by secretly building a complex electric rifle when he was four. McClung was accepted by the Bay area's genius education program for ``Mentally Gifted Minors,'' whose special scientific projects were constantly sifted by the CIA for ideas--with the best projects (including McClung's vest for bugging and eavesdropping) stolen and passed on to CIA scientists. At 14, McClung met OSS-CIA master spy John Colling, who taught him the basics of spy-craft. Then falconer and top CIA assassin Ray Goodreau taught him about falconry and animal training, unconventional weapons, and commando tactics; McClung had already shaped his body into a lethal weapon through the martial arts. Goodreau also sharpened him into a remorseless anticommunist death-dealer. Eventually, McClung fell in with Marty Rhymer, a CIA wire-man, and Gabe Margolis, a boorish Mossad commando, who together had formed Amida Ltd., later a CIA secret business whose cover was selling weapons, uniforms and support gear to California law enforcement agencies but which quickly became a feast of international arms dealing. McClung refined a new Diplomat poison- tipped pen-gun, and, with his deadly book-gun (a copy of The Book of the Dead that fired bullets) and always accurate laser rifle, etc., etc. (diagrams for many of the weapons are given), became the company's chief inventor of killer ``toys.'' Then Ibriham Haddad, fat and perfumed king of arms dealers, invaded Amida and took it over, adding his own poison to Amida's already irredeemably corrupt juices. When Amida set up McClung to be assassinated, he hid out in the wilds for three years and abandoned dealing death downward from the top of the food chain. The rotten underbelly of US Intelligence, grippingly sliced open. Film rights sold.

 

[GIRLYmann]

I think I will probably sell the knife...Although it seems like lots of folks on this forum are down on Mad Dog knifes.

It's an amazing product
Which commands its very own niche of loyal fans.
So anywhere with an active Steven Seagal fan base would make an ideal start.
Thanks for the incredibly awesome pictures.
Very cool find, btw!

 

[brownshoe]

Just because someone has a loose grip on reality and an active fantasy world, doesn't meant they can't build a good knife...

 

[BladeScout]

This isnt a Strider thread.

 

[Bladegunner]

I won't be asking some of these ridiculous prices I have seen for these knifes, Hopefully I find the right person who maybe isn't rich but would really like it and I can work with them to make it priced right where they can acquire it where normally it would have been out of reach for them.

 

[BladeScout]

Just buy the correct membership and sell it on the sales forum.

As you say, it has to be priced right. There has been a couple of Mad Dog knives re-posted there for a while now ...

The market/niche for MD knives is ... narrow.

 

[Blades]

You'll have to x-ray the handle and look for the UFO key hidden inside.

Seriously, BFC "UFO key" for some entertainment.

I hope you have a real one. BladeScout is right... good, bad or indifferent, somebody will always pay a pile of cash for one.

That brought back memories

Yep, the real ones have a hidden notch under the handle and you'd have to x-ray the knife to see it.

Cause the ones broken in testing wont have the notch hence must be fakes, right

The above may contain sarcasm.

The good old days. What did we do before the internet?

Just buy the correct membership and sell it on the sales forum.

As you say, it has to be priced right. There has been a couple of Mad Dog knives re-posted there for a while now ...

The market/niche for MD knives is ... narrow.

All it takes in one person to buy it.

Good luck Bladegunner on whatever you decide to do.

 

[Blueoak]

That is a real ATAK. It is a C series made for the State Department. They went to Colombia for narcotics teams IIRC. Everything about it is correct. They made 200 from what I understand. I have seen them sell from 1500 up to 6K. They don't have the spine file grooves of the original Seal Knives or the A series knives and I don't think they are worth as much. Still an interesting piece of Mad Dog history. They ATAK was a very note worthy knife.

 

[Cobalt]

That is a real ATAK. It is a C series made for the State Department. They went to Colombia for narcotics teams IIRC. Everything about it is correct. They made 200 from what I understand. I have seen them sell from 1500 up to 6K. They don't have the spine file grooves of the original Seal Knives or the A series knives and I don't think they are worth as much. Still an interesting piece of Mad Dog history. They ATAK was a very note worthy knife.

Then there was the coronado/seal fiasco. Those around back then will remember that.

As for Columbia use, that was absolutely worthless for that. The teams going down there were much better equipped with other knives including the livesay RCM. The ATAK was to small for use that they needed and the Tusk was moronically expensive for it's time. About 3 times the cost of a Busse Battlemistress of that time, which was 10 times the knife. You could get a Livesay RCM for about $150 and a Busse SHBM for about $347. The Tusk was around $900 to $1100 and was the most fragile.

 

[Blueoak]

Then there was the coronado/seal fiasco. Those around back then will remember that.

As for Columbia use, that was absolutely worthless for that. The teams going down there were much better equipped with other knives including the livesay RCM. The ATAK was to small for use that they needed and the Tusk was moronically expensive for it's time. About 3 times the cost of a Busse Battlemistress of that time, which was 10 times the knife. You could get a Livesay RCM for about $150 and a Busse SHBM for about $347. The Tusk was around $900 to $1100 and was the most fragile.

Yes the whole Mad Dog Seal Knife thing ended poorly. It was still a break through knife in many ways. The G10 handle that was comfortable to grip. IIRC and I may be wrong but Kevin was a big proponent of G10. Kevin makes an amazing kydex sheath. His knives are low enough production that they retain big after market prices. It is an iconic knife.

It looks like the knife is already on Ebay with a ridiculous price.

 

[Blueoak]

Just buy the correct membership and sell it on the sales forum.

As you say, it has to be priced right. There has been a couple of Mad Dog knives re-posted there for a while now ...

The market/niche for MD knives is ... narrow.

Yes. Some have been on Ebay at stupid high prices for years. The same knife relisted over and over for years, at this point I think they are just trying to get insertion fees back.

 

[Cobalt]

Yes the whole Mad Dog Seal Knife thing ended poorly. It was still a break through knife in many ways. The G10 handle that was comfortable to grip. IIRC and I may be wrong but Kevin was a big proponent of G10. Kevin makes an amazing kydex sheath. His knives are low enough production that they retain big after market prices. It is an iconic knife.

It looks like the knife is already on Ebay with a ridiculous price.

I think he called it g11 or something else. It was hard to separate the lies from the truth.

 

[BladeScout]

Yes. Some have been on Ebay at stupid high prices for years. The same knife relisted over and over for years, at this point I think they are just trying to get insertion fees back.

I referred to the ones presently fs (and so far remaining fs) here at the sales forum - on BF.

No doubt they are demanding even more silly prices on the Bay.