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Rambo Survival Knife Reviews

Let’s pause for a little background: Rambo used a modified Bowie designed by Jimmy Lile in the movie First Blood.  The overall length of Rambo Ultimate Survival Knife the knife was just short of 14 inches with nine of those inches a flat grind edge of D2 steel.  Fourteen saw teeth graced the spine of the blade, and the hollow pommel was wrapped with 36 feet of green paracord. By the second Rambo movie – First Blood Part 2, the Lile-Rambo knife had grown to over 15 inches in length with a 10-inch blade.  The bead-blasted finish of the first movie’s knife was swapped out for a Hollywood contradiction of shiny edges surrounding a blackened center creating a silhouette of a smaller blade within a larger one.  The number of saw teeth on the spine remained the same, but looked slightly less ridiculous since they stopped further back from the tip.

 
By the third movie – Rambo III, the knife grew to a full Bowie on steroids with a blindingly shiny 440 stainless blade of massively wide girth and a foot of blade length. Sly Stallone, a knife aficionado in his own right, asked Gill Hibben to design the Rambo III blade. The grip was again wrapped in paracord, but this time it had finger grooves reminiscent of the bicycle handlebar grips on a Schwinn Stingray which is where Hibben likely got his inspiration. The handle has a huge stainless steel handguard on one side and an equally conspicuous stainless buttcap on the other. In the end, Stallone did to knives what Schwarzenegger did to Hummers; he popularized packing a huge knife even if terribly inefficient for the job at hand. On the flip side of that same coin, the mere presence of such a mean looking battleknife may defuse a situation regardless if the carrier knows how to use it or not. Kind of like the open carry of a handgun; it can remind other folks to mind their manners.

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