I asked about this at BLADE 07, if I remember it all correctly....... The lanyard hole does go through the tang. That is what holds the handle on. The tang is pressed into the pre made handle and then lanyard hole is installed. the tang on the S6 is bigger and therefore the tang slot in the S6 handle is too. I guess I kinda invisioned they poured the handles on the blade with a mold or something so I found the process interesting.

Putting a mudder on the DM would mean the tang would have to be redsigned smaller I think.

I missed that somehow, the DMDC has thicker handles?