I ordered my dad one back in 92 when I was stationed in Orlando.  He's never used it, keeps it as a display knife.

Lately I have been looking at one for myself to pass down to family.  I'm hung up on using one as a hunting/survival knife, leaning toward green micarta handle, maybe a 14 or 16 with saw back in SS.



Post yours if you don't mind.

Have one, worth every penny!

You know, I'd forgotten about Randall knives.



I'm getting a bunch more money than usual this year, and have been thinking of neat things to buy, and I don't have a Randall knife.

I had a 19 a few years ago, they're good knives but it just didn't do it for me.  I ended up trading it for a Sebenza which didn't do it for me either

The best prices seem to be knivesshipfree and bladehq.

I've been looking for an RC-3, but just haven't pulled the trigger on one yet.

From the knife pic thread here is my #15 "Airman."

#1-7 on top

I bought my Randall #5 in the late 70's while going to college at FTU/UCF, took me +2 years to get the money while I was struggling through college.

It got stolen on the move from Orlando to Seattle.  I still mourn the loss of that knife to this day....  

Beautiful knives in this thread.  Congrats guys.    

Those are sweeet.

My next one is due from the factory in 2012.  Ordered sometime in 2007 from what I recall.


1.  RMK #14 with single #3 nickel silver hilt, black micarta one-finger handle, thumb notches.

2.  RMK #3 stock












3.  RMK #3 with 7" blade, India stag handle and nickel silver hilt.  Compare the nickel silver hilt on this #3 to the stock #3 above, which has a brass hilt.






As an owner of a #14 and who has taken a survival class, I would not recommend it for those purposes.  Don't get me wrong, I love my Randalls but they are not optimized for survival purposes.  I would recommend instead a Swamp Rat Howling Rat LM (HRLM) or an Ontario RAT5 (or RAT3) as a much more practical survival knife.  

The blade of the #14 is just far too long for most typical survival purposes.  I would recommend a maximum five inch blade, no longer.  Further, the double hilt just plain gets in the way.  You'll notice I had my #14 made with a single hilt in order to try and overcome this disadvange (in addition to adding the thumb notches), but even Randall's single hilt gets in the way of putting your thumb on the spine of the blade so you don't have as much leverage for detail cuts.  

Also, the #14 does not have a good pommel for hammering; if you ask for the Duralumin buttcap it will not be strong enough to hammer.  The pommel of my #14 is mostly micarta, which will NOT stand up to pounding.  The HRLM and the RAT3 both have exposed pommels which are great for hammering (the RAT5 not so much –– it's one of those stupid "skull crusher" pommels that look tacticool but have no practical use whatsoever).  

Last, you won't have to wait five years and spend $400 for a Swamp Rat HRLM or Ontario RAT.  Pony up $90 and you can have a new RAT3 shipped to your door within two weeks.

Would match nicely with the gun of Rambo.

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The one on the bottom looks very much like the one I bought my dad, it had the buttcap with his initials engraved into it.





 

Never had a Randall.  I used to have a Jimmy Lile, an early bootknife that had "Hand made by James B Lile" on the blade.  I have no idea where it is now.

That's what I came in to post

I have a Model 25 Trapper that my Dad gave me when my 1st child was born.

Looks pretty much exactly like the one in the picture below ("A")

Placeholder for me to post my cute little skinning knife when I get home.

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Yeah, in retrospect I wish I would have specified the Duralumin buttcap for that second #3.  The end of the stag handles are nicely polished but I think a Duralumin cap would go nicely with the nickel silver hilt (and make it more durable).

But like I said above, there are far better options if you want a working survival knife.  I would also get the stainless steel blade option because the O-1 carbon blades are VERY rust-prone.  I've got a few rust spots on that #14 and it really hasn't seen very hard use.