An Army Ranger's Lifetime Career in Knives

Playing off of "Coch's" and Dorr's videos, retired Army Ranger Dave Steinbach shares his knife collection and talks about the knives he's used in his career.

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[TheScuds]

2:25 Blackjack AWAC
2:50 Handmade knife
3:19 Unknown
3:50 Schrade Old Timer Guide-master
4:21 Boker 512
4:48 Spartan Blades CQB Tool
5:25 Abraham and Moses AM-2
5:45 Western L66 D (Thank you, Charlie Z.)
6:15, 7:02, 7:29, 8:15, 8:45 Dan Peters custom knives
9:42 Buck Omni Hunter 10PT and 12PT
10:10 Schrade 1ELK
11:05 Schrade Hunting Heritage Collection
11:34 Benchmade Adamas
12:33 Gerber Propel Auto
13:00 Casselman knife (sold with various logos and brands on it)
13:36 Custom made push dagger
14:02 Microtech UTX-85
14:33 Custom knife (same maker from push dagger)
15:20 Pro-Shot Sermon Knife and Tool for 5.56mm
15:48 Cudeman Knives
16:15 Gerber LMF II
16:40 SOG Stingray S6 (Thank you, Reece De Jong)
17:10 Custom knife
17:45 Benchmade 7 Hook Knife

If you recognize the ones I didn't or if I got something wrong, please let me know!

[nationwood]

The fact that Dave is simultaneously a bad ass former Ranger and a humble wholesome dude is pretty awesome. Great addition to the group, love it Dave!

[gregbrown]

Ha! So Dave was the "Knife Guy" in the Platoon! I was "Harmonica Guy" in mine!

[TrojanManSCP]

Mystery knife @5:25 is an Abraham and Moses AM-2. An offshoot of Geissele Automatics (trigger and rifle manufacturer), A&M is their foray into knifemaking. D2 steel, very durable design. I'd speculate you probably got it through the AMU; Geissele's products are used by all the services' competition teams.

[chipe]

man, I love these knife collection videos, so interesting and entertaining

[jeffhouse]

I really enjoy these ‘lifetime of…’ vids. Cool to see how kit and mindset change over time. Guns, knives, boots and such. I remember when if was cool to have an AF Pilot Survival knife mounted upside down on your LBE strap.

[brazzy]

I started trying to forge a knife in KAF Afghanistan in our clam shell. During one of my deployments some of the RANGER's had ordered a full setup to forge knives. One of your guys was using an MRAP leaf spring to forge his version of the V-44 Bowie knife.

[Billfish]

Great job here from someone that likes/loves knives as much as we all do but doesn't bother to get caught up in the picky terms for the knife world. His focus is using them not collecting them even though he has a nice collection that has added up over the years to tell a story of his life. That chef's choice sharpener is great for most knives, that flat ground, kitchen type flat are the best in that, when the knife has thick sides and changing angles to deal with, it can rock around in there and not work well, no one sharpening system is great for everything. I like how his focus is on sharp, or not. serrations can be sharpened easily with a round ceramic rod. Try to maintain an edge instead of sharpen it. If you often strop blades while still sharp, they will stay sharp. Don't let them go dull and continue to use or you will then need to sharpen and that's a different job that requires skill and expertise that is more involved than just learning to keep them stropped for a razor edge sharpness. For kind of sharp, or sort of sharp, anyone can get that done and if you blade is flat, like most of his are, that electric one can work fantastic.

[kaponochidester]

“ he put me in the army “ said a lot. Thank you guys for serving, y’all life choices gave my life choices.

[SamSam-ihnt]

This is growing to be one of my top favorite channels
RLTW

[CVEIWKID]

That green handled old timer is probably the best knife ever made

[Spinal]

The angry ginger looks to be based off of the Kukri knife from Nepal.

Neat collection.

[FreedomSpirit]

That old timer with the green rubber handle has been my best friend for years

[johnbicknell]

A great collection . I got into knives young and loved to throw them and a hatchet. I carried both in the 60's in combat.

[s.e.r.e._tech]

At the end of Vietnam “the” knife all Rangers and EOD carried was the Buck 110 Hunter! It was the Ranger Instructor knife and always sold out at Ranger Joes.

[GearShifter]

I ❤ love KNIVES with it's Blades having hollow designs .

[colindegrow]

Such a great series on gear! All of the presenters bring such unique background to everything. Great work as always!

[danielguerrero]

Love these knife collection videos on so many levels

[DarkPhoenixTSi]

The Benchmade Adamas is my favorite folder. IIRC, for every one sold, a portion of the sales was contributed to the Ranger Assistance Foundation. The older Adamas line were all named after Ranger Battalions. The one you had was model number 275. The fixed blade was 375.

[GarrettsGear]

It's really interesting to see the difference between this, and knife specific channels. There's basically no folding knives, and definitely ZERO unused knives. I love it. Use your shit!