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Posted: 5/10/2015 8:59:18 PM EST
i remember LaRue had this knife for sale for a while, but it seems they don't have it anymore. Anybody if they'll ever bring it back ?
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Posted: 5/10/2015 9:01:09 PM EST
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IIRC it was a one-off run.
Might be able to fine one used somewhere. |
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Posted: 5/10/2015 9:13:14 PM EST
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More rare than the BattleLight. They pop up for sale and disappear back into your dreams faster than you can spend your $.
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Posted: 5/11/2015 12:18:13 AM EST
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Seriously, I do not know why they don't become even more vertically integrated and produce their own blade. Seems like a no brainier to me.
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Posted: 5/11/2015 9:34:16 AM EST
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Whats the MOA guarantee?
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Posted: 5/11/2015 10:32:55 AM EST
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My understanding it they were made by a custom maker for Larue. If someone can recall the maker you can order something similar.
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Posted: 5/11/2015 10:48:29 AM EST
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Good luck finding one, and be prepared to spend $xxx if you do....
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Posted: 5/11/2015 10:54:07 AM EST
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My understanding it they were made by a custom maker for Larue. If someone can recall the maker you can order something similar. I believe this is what you search for. |
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Posted: 5/11/2015 11:26:03 AM EST
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I knew someone here would know. Thank you.
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Posted: 5/11/2015 11:41:06 AM EST
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OST
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Posted: 5/16/2015 12:59:40 PM EST
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$450 and 440c steel? Lol no.
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Posted: 5/16/2015 1:42:45 PM EST
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Posted: 5/16/2015 2:35:36 PM EST
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My understanding it they were made by a custom maker for Larue. If someone can recall the maker you can order something similar. I believe this is what you search for. $450 for a 440c blade? Pass. If it's not at least S30V or 154cm, I'm not interested. 440c is cheap steel. |
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Posted: 5/16/2015 2:47:03 PM EST
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Friend of mine has two of them.
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Posted: 5/17/2015 5:49:25 AM EST
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All depends upon the heat treat gentleman. I believe Randalls are made out of a 440B equivalent, and yet there stainless is good to go.
I wouldn't be put off by a properly treated 440C blade. 1095 is cheap steel, yet still one of the best IMO. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 9:06:00 PM EST
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My understanding it they were made by a custom maker for Larue. If someone can recall the maker you can order something similar. Nope, no outside vendors. S30V - made entirely in-house, from design to completion. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 9:12:16 PM EST
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My understanding it they were made by a custom maker for Larue. If someone can recall the maker you can order something similar. I believe this is what you search for. John Horrigan makes custom handmade knives. Our knife was machined on our CNCs. It's been almost a decade ... I bought a whiz bang sharpener, and iirc John may have sharpened some with it while showing us how it worked. But again, it was 10 years ago. |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 10:01:17 PM EST
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John Horrigan makes custom handmade knives. Our knife was machined on our CNCs. It's been almost a decade ... I bought a whiz bang sharpener, and iirc John may have sharpened some with it while showing us how it worked. But again, it was 10 years ago. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My understanding it they were made by a custom maker for Larue. If someone can recall the maker you can order something similar. I believe this is what you search for. John Horrigan makes custom handmade knives. Our knife was machined on our CNCs. It's been almost a decade ... I bought a whiz bang sharpener, and iirc John may have sharpened some with it while showing us how it worked. But again, it was 10 years ago. Make moar. 
In all seriousness, are you just too busy or what is the reason if you dont mind me asking? |
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Posted: 5/17/2015 10:29:35 PM EST
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I'll buy one, and it would be the first quality knife that I owned.
Come on, do iiiiiiiiiiiit! Um, please? 1362 Never mind. How about 2? One is none... Just covering all my bases. |
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Posted: 5/18/2015 7:34:08 AM EST
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Make moar.
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My understanding it they were made by a custom maker for Larue. If someone can recall the maker you can order something similar. I believe this is what you search for. John Horrigan makes custom handmade knives. Our knife was machined on our CNCs. It's been almost a decade ... I bought a whiz bang sharpener, and iirc John may have sharpened some with it while showing us how it worked. But again, it was 10 years ago. Make moar.
In all seriousness, are you just too busy or what is the reason if you dont mind me asking? Over the last decade, we've been too busy ... plus everytime I landed a nice deal on a good Haas that I bought to make the knives with, the guys scarf it up to make some new mount. And now we have 80 or 90 Haases and still none running the knife. Just hasn't been in the cards. Some day. |
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Posted: 5/19/2015 6:31:31 AM EST
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John Horrigan makes custom handmade knives. Our knife was machined on our CNCs. It's been almost a decade ... I bought a whiz bang sharpener, and iirc John may have sharpened some with it while showing us how it worked. But again, it was 10 years ago. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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My understanding it they were made by a custom maker for Larue. If someone can recall the maker you can order something similar. I believe this is what you search for. John Horrigan makes custom handmade knives. Our knife was machined on our CNCs. It's been almost a decade ... I bought a whiz bang sharpener, and iirc John may have sharpened some with it while showing us how it worked. But again, it was 10 years ago. My mistake. I went off of memory and this question coming up before. I stand correct by the Man himself. Thanks. Now push the guys into making more  
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Posted: 5/19/2015 8:48:51 PM EST
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I'm no fanboy, but I've never had any gear as bulletproof as the m68 Larue mount that I had. If Mark designed a hard use folder, I'd be first in line.
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Posted: 5/19/2015 9:28:51 PM EST
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LaRue knife story ...
Chuck Karwan did a nice little write-up in Tactical Knife magazine. I should still have a copy somewhere. Anyhow, it's about 2005 or so, Chuck heard about the knife, came by our Shotshow booth, and took a look. He handled it and said looks good adding the chorl was just right. Said his team was in a torrential downpour in Cambodia (?), and they had a VC tracker ghosting them some distance back. Rain started coming down in buckets, so while they holed up and waited, he sent one of the guys back to see if tracker holed up too. Chuck's guy found tracker huddled under his poncho, so he snuck up on him and buried a Randall #1 straight down in the top of his head. Now here's where the fun starts. He could not extract the knife from the skull it was buried in. Lots of rain slick blood, no amount of pulling would do it. He finally went back to the team, got a sub-gun, used it to shoot tracker's skull into pieces, allowing him to retrieve his Randall. Moral of the story, Chuck said a chorl needs to be big enough to get a big finger in front for pulling. He paused and pointed at the butt of the knife and said "this is the skull cracker", then he pointed at the chorl and said "and this is the skull extractor". RIP Chuck. 
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