Anybody have any experience with razor wire? One of my employees is deploying in a few months and he's looking for a better combat knife.

He said one of the things he wants to be able to do with it is chop/break razor wire. He said he breaks it in a notch in his current knife. I assume the metal won't tolerate acute deformation and it breaks that way. Anybody know if a mojo/hook will do this or how the different Busse steels would perform against razor wire?

His other criteria are that he wants a fighter with a tip designed for thrusting with a blade of at least 6".

Thoughts?

Sounds like he wants a clip point fighter with a wire cutter/breaker? I don't know of any in that configuration other than the M9/M10 bayonets, and they aren't such great steel. They come up a little short as well. Whatever he gets, have him test it on some wire before he leaves.

is the wire soft enough to chop?

I know most TOPS knives come with a wire breaker notch, I think I would just get a Scrapper 6 etc and team it up with a good mult-tool for cutting the wire !!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I thought it was only Rambo who used a big knife for doing that ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

this guy would kill rambo lol <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> seriously though, I don't know what he does with the wire, where, when, or how, but this is going to be his 3rd or 4th time over there so I figure he's got it pretty well figured out. He just wants a better blade.

I told him to check out bussecollector and badmojo and bladeforums and check out Busse Combat/Swamp Rat/Scrap Yard and read about INFI/SR-101/SR-77 with a list of blades in the 6"-7.5" range. He was particularly interested in the destruction tests. Who wouldn't find that entertaining? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

It's probably soft enough for some higher end steels to chop, but you have to have something to back it when you're chopping it.

I hear that Tops sometimes chip when used on wire.

a scrapyard would not chip thats for sure!
It MIGHT get dented more than a rat or hog though.
although I think it would handle it just fine, how many nails has chris or and vance cut through???
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he might want to pick up one of these. heck we all might want to:

http://toolmonger.com/2008/03/24/channellocks-rescue-tool/#more-9437

Have your employee check this forum: http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=70

He will have to register to do a search, and if he chooses to ask a question I would suggest he ask it only after doing extensive reading and with humility. These guys are truly professionals and do not mess around.

WoW, Wiggitty, that's a cool lookin tool! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

I went to the Channellock Website and watched the little video on it.

surely you must be kidding. I'd really hate for the mall ninjas to get angry <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Extema Ratio wire cutter bayonet.. As used by Italian spooks and SAS types, not INFI or even close (sort of 440C by the looks of it) but I seem to have heard they have a good rep'..