What is the practical purpose of the hole in this knife?
Posted by James on August 21, 2013 · 3 Comments
Question by lilfry14: What is the practical purpose of the hole in this knife?
Here is a picture of a knife and I was wondering what the purpose of the hole towards the end of the blade is.
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The knife is large enough so it doesn’t make much of a weight difference. Maybe it would be useful if you wanted to bend a piece of metal like a nail?
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Answer by magic621a
So you can attach some string to it and fish with it out in the great outdoors.
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they put it there so u will think it is better than other knives, and buy it. there really is no use
This particular design of knife is based off of the U.S.A.’s military bayonet number M-9. The hole that you are referring to is for the scabbard of the original bayonet and is used for cutting through fencing and wiring of most kinds going to size 5 gauge. On a side note: Yes, the M-9 has been a fairly good design, it does have its flaws though. #1 The steel is hardened far too hard for a combat/utility knife and will break when outside temperatures drop below fifty degrees Fahrenheit. #2 The handle is round, not oval shaped and thus making it difficult sometimes to use when in a stressful situation. #3 The bayonets primary manufacturing company(Buck Knives originally and then sub-contracted to Lan-Kay) STILL charges far too much for the bayonet despite its under fifty dollar cost for materials, labor and shipping cost just to make ONE of these bayonets.
dont quote me on this but I was once told that if u stabbed somebody, its put there so that the stabbed victim has no survival chances. i was made to believe that with a regular knife, as long as u dont pull out the knife when u r stabbed, u r very likely to survive ( i guess if ur organs are spared) but with the kind of knife that u mentioned, lets just say it brings out the grim reaper.