#Droppoint blade full#

It weighs 4.9 ounces and is made from 1075 carbon steel (blade) and sports a Micarta handle. The RAT 3’s blade length is 3.6 inches and it’s total length is 7.6 inches.

#Droppoint blade full#

The RAT 3 satisfies the three primary goals of any field knife: It has a full tang, it retains an edge well, and it is easy to maintain in the field without specialized equipment. The Ontario Knife Company, like KA-BAR, has been making poky, slashy, and stabby tools for the military for years, to include the Mk3 Diving Knife, the M1942 Machete, and the current USMC bayonet. If cost is a factor, the Ontario Knife Company RAT 3 might be your jam. Here are a handful of fixed blade knives that made the cut - and one you should avoid at all costs. While I prefer folding knives, fixed blade knives exist for a reason and many of our readers use them on the job, so our trusty team of Task & Purpose gear reviewers wanted to evaluate a half dozen of them and let you know what we think. Again, I rarely used it, but it looked fearsome and added a bit of moral support and comfort during those very fluid days on the battlefield in March and April as we were rolling along alone and unafraid investigating “special incidents” for the division commander. I did dig the SOG Desert Dagger out of retirement and took it along with me when the 1st Marine Division invaded Iraq in 2003. It weighed almost a pound, so I ditched it for a Spyderco Delica folding knife which served me well for many years. Well folks, I never stabbed a Russian with it, and all I used it for was opening MRE boxes and slitting open plastic MRE bags. It was well-built out of 440A stainless steel, had a cool double edge with serrations near the handle, and came with a Kydex sheath. When I was a boot lieutenant in the Marine Corps infantry, I purchased a SOG Desert Dagger, thinking it was a marked improvement over the issued Ka-Bar in puncturing Russian-made body armor. I don’t typically carry one, although I own one. Fixed blade knives are specialists in the knife world.