Most dangerous weapon..the P38 can opener....

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Most dangerous weapon..the P38 can opener....

Posted: 1/30/2002 11:51:11 AM EDT

OK, sound off.. who still has that tool of tools, weapon of weapons?

I still have mine, quite handy too! [:)]

Posted: 1/30/2002 12:34:36 PM EDT

[#1]

Ive still got mine, truth be known Ive got several. Still got one on my tags, one on my keys, one in a survival kit, one in my tackle box, even have two or three still in the pkg for back-up
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Posted: 1/30/2002 5:03:18 PM EDT

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[url]www.cheaperthandirt.com[/url] sells them in 5-packs for almost nothing. I have a bunch sprinkled around.

-Troy

Posted: 1/30/2002 5:13:12 PM EDT

[#3]

I've got several, when the electric can open dies, and the manual one breaks, I have a back up. Back up. Sounds familiar.

Art in KY

Posted: 1/30/2002 9:25:08 PM EDT

[#4]

The P-38 was one of the best inventions ever. Cheap, practical, etc. I still use mine.

Posted: 1/31/2002 6:57:19 AM EDT

[#5]

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BTW, anyone know when they were phased out?

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They still use them with the t-rations.

Posted: 1/31/2002 6:59:44 AM EDT

[#6]

A jarhead I work with had his personal, sentimenal P38 CONFISCATED at the airport. Fascists. I guess they figured that, him being a Marine, he was more of a threat to himself than the airplane. [;)]

Posted: 1/31/2002 7:23:13 AM EDT

[#7]

I have a few P-38s around the house and in the garage. I don't carry one on my keychain anymore because it cuts holes in my pockets.

Posted: 1/31/2002 7:53:37 AM EDT

[#8]

I have several of them in my emergency supplies, just in case I can't find my multi-tool can openers.

Posted: 1/31/2002 7:59:16 AM EDT

[#9]

Got one of those, but I had to think a bit about where I keep it. It's in the tool box yep the tool box.
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Posted: 1/31/2002 7:59:18 AM EDT

[#10]

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I don't carry one on my keychain anymore because it cuts holes in my pockets.

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Or worse. [:D]

Love the sig' pic Big_Bear!

Posted: 1/31/2002 8:40:21 AM EDT

[#11]

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A jarhead I work with had his personal, sentimenal P38 CONFISCATED at the airport. Fascists. I guess they figured that, him being a Marine, he was more of a threat to himself than the airplane. [;)]

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I just went through Newark the other day with mine security looked at my key chain and handed it back to me I have had one on ther as long as I can remember an keep one stuffed down in my wallet not really sure what for but it has come in handy once or twice.

Posted: 1/31/2002 8:44:39 AM EDT

[#12]

I have one that my dad carried in Korea(yes they had them way back then) and I have a few that I got while in the USMC(yes, we had C-rats back then).

Posted: 1/31/2002 9:14:20 AM EDT

[#13]

I have a few old "preban" P38s myself. Watch-Six

Posted: 1/31/2002 12:15:38 PM EDT

[#14]

I just bought my first ones this year.

Posted: 1/31/2002 3:25:34 PM EDT

[#15]

Received some cans from my brother, all of his favorite rejects.....

Bean component in tomato sauce with porc......still looking for the porc.

They were right about the component part in bean though, it tasted nowhere near beans. Unless you where a bean in the seventies [;)]

Posted: 1/31/2002 4:36:48 PM EDT

[#16]

I used to have one on my keyring until the day the blade part deployed and stabbed me in the leg when I sat down.

Posted: 1/31/2002 4:57:18 PM EDT

[#17]

I have a few. I remember my first field training exercise when I had just joined the Marine Corps... the Ham and Mammies I got were older than I was (HONEST!). The next month we had MREs. I guess they had to get rid of the bad before they brought in the new... And yes, I have a scar on the inside of my thigh where the damn thing bit me!

Posted: 1/31/2002 5:14:46 PM EDT

[#18]

still got mine on my keychain...put it their when I was in the Army in 74....wife was amazed when she saw what it was for, made me get her one at a gun show recently...

Posted: 1/31/2002 5:18:56 PM EDT

[#19]

tell your marine buddy that they deprived him of his property without due process of law and he should make a fuss

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