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From: ronp%hound@uunet.UU.NET (Ron Phillips)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re:  Best Knife for a LRRP?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 21:14:48 GMT
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In article <35310@mimsy.umd.edu> boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
#In article <35175@mimsy.umd.edu>, snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt) writes:
##Killing quietly.
##	Else you would probably shoot instead.  It seems to me
##most sharp, fairly stong blades work about equally.
#
#You also want some length, and the blade should not be so big/thick as to 
#prevent deep penetration.  Also, the blade should be kept very sharp (which 
#implies not using it for camp chores). 
#

Killing silently with a knife, unless you have been trained to perform 
the task, is not as easy as one might think.

Most knife attacks *do not* end in death and are far from being silent
as the person wielding the knife does not know the techniques and 
succeeds only in surface lacerations, penetrating non-vital areas or 
having the knife strike bone.

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