KABAR COMBAT USMC
- tnkingfish
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KABAR COMBAT USMC
Does anyone know if this is a model 1221 or what model it is? box it was in has 02-1221 on it.
- jerryd6818
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Re: KABAR COMBAT USMC
My Ontario has P4 on the box.
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The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
- zzyzzogeton
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Re: KABAR COMBAT USMC
The Ontario P4 USMC Combat knife was a civilian version of the Ontario 498, which is the current MIL-K-20227 (modern nomenclature for the USMC 1219C2 / USN MK2,
The P4 has a brass guard, brass pommel and fancy (red/white) spacers and a 440A stainless steel blade, RHC of 49-52. Came out around 2012 or 2013, IIRC, maybe earlier.
In 2014, most were provided with a black coating on the blade and apparently donated to the Task Force Dagger program for a fund raiser sale.
If it is in a Kabar 1221 box, that's wrong. It should be in a Ontarion P4 box like Jerry posted.
The P4 has a brass guard, brass pommel and fancy (red/white) spacers and a 440A stainless steel blade, RHC of 49-52. Came out around 2012 or 2013, IIRC, maybe earlier.
In 2014, most were provided with a black coating on the blade and apparently donated to the Task Force Dagger program for a fund raiser sale.
If it is in a Kabar 1221 box, that's wrong. It should be in a Ontarion P4 box like Jerry posted.
- tnkingfish
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Re: KABAR COMBAT USMC
Thanks, I didn't think that was the right box but it's the one I got it in.