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The 82nd Air Borne is a Hard Core user designed for Survival and Tactical use.  Good designs do not have have to be crowbars to preform.

82nd AIRBORNE   The Newt Livesay 82^nd AIR BORNE COMBAT FIGHTING KNIFEÔ   aka: Eighty Duce, 82^nd, or Airborne. This is an original knife design from the Wicked Knife Cutlery and Manufacturing CompanyÓ facility in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. The Livesay designed 82^nd AIR BORNE COMBAT FIGHTING KNIFEÔ is an original fighter/combat knife design of Newt Livesay. Newt Livesay and the Wicked Knife Cutlery and Manufacturing Company have manufactured it since October 1992.

Early 82nd Air Borne Fighters were made with satin finished D2 tool steel, and burgundy polished handle scales.  The Newt Livesay 82^nd AIR BORNE COMBAT FIGHTING KNIFEÔ was designed around the ‘Livesay Number One Style Handle.’ The ergonomically designed Livesay Number One Style handle is a masterpiece that lends its self to superior handling, and security by either the skilled professional or novice user; even when you up to your elbows in the mud and the blood. With a critical eye for performance, the Livesay 82nd Air BorneÔ has a deep hollow-ground blade for superior cutting abilities. It is primarily design is that of a combat fighting knife, but can be used in a utilitarian capacity. The blade design is a willow leaf or spear point, and is deeply hollow ground. The taper-profiled ground top edge will deliver devastating shock to a target that could be vital for the solution of your mission. With a reinforced ground tip, the blade can delivery cuts, stabs, or slashes with the best of combat fighters.

Newt Livesay is one of the premier and original designers of KYDEX sheaths for knives and other weapon systems, and the 82nd Air BorneÔ comes housed standard in a ‘Livesay designed Snap-Loc leg sheathing systems Ô ’.

The 82nd Air Borne is made from a solid bar of 1095 high carbon tool steel, differentially heat-treated to a superior 59-60 Rockwell on the “C” scale, and triple drawn. A final DeepCryo Quench at sub-zero temperatures is preformed before the knife is assembled.

Sheathing options:  Mil-Spec KYDEX Standard, (Livesay Snap-Loc tm Leg Sheath) STANDARD with LBE/LBV Optional, or Leather sheathing optional as an add on. 

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