I'm wondering what kind of sheath this is...

[Bevandera]

Hey all,
I'm stumped by this one, and hoping someone can help me identify the sheath the man has on his shoulder in these pictures:

http://cubemedia.ign.com/media/previ...brilliant6.jpg
http://cubemedia.ign.com/cube/image/...identevil6.jpg

Any help would be very appreciated. If you're somehow able to recognize the knife from just the handle that'd be swell too

Much obliged,
Bevandera

[TexasJack]

The obvious answer is: "It's a cartoon! It's NOT real!"

Getting past that, I've seen photos and movies of military folks going back as far as WWII in which similar rigs are shown. It's just a sheath worn upside down. The military is notorious for supplying crappy knives to the troops. (Can you say. "Lowest bid"?) So the guys often purchase their own. A number of knifemakers on this forum have supplied knives and sheaths to our troops in "the Sand Box", and a number of major manufacturers produce knives used for the same purpose.

[Bevandera]

Yeah, I was just hoping it was based on a real sheath...his other equipment is based on actual gear...for instance, he's wearing an M69 flak vest and Centurion KP250 knee pads.

[nozh_scrap]

what is that...? a Resident Evil game?

[MtMike]

Texas Jack -- agreeing 90% with your take on milstandard knives, there are always exceptions. I still have, and use, a WW II era PAL 36 that I also carried in Vietnam (yes, the sheath went Tango Uniform years ago )

I've seen guys carry K-Bars and Camillus survival knives in rigs similar to the one in the cartoon, tho not that high up on the chest. Always seemed ####ed dangerous to me, 'specially if the tip of the sheath wasn't reinforced (I'm talking pre-kydex). I remember a marine aviator student who almost died when the tip of his survival knife, carried like that, went thru the sheath after a nasty ejection/hard landing.

Mike