I own 3; my employees often walk away with them for soil sampling (yes they are that tough). The sheath issues are solved if you soak them in oil for a week or so - soft as butter.

The people complaining about the guard being loose are uninformed! The knife design calls for the guard to be loose (floating), if you tie the knife to a stick to make a makeshift spear, using the holes in the guard, if the guard wasn't floating the chance of the knife breaking from the shock of impact is increased! This is in the mil-spec for production. A great knife!

Great knife very durable,

Very happy with my purchase

Trust my life with this knife, I don’t know who the idiot was who keeps saying that his knife was loose, and complaining, this is the greatest knife I’ve ever known, I have pounded 10 pegs with it, I have knocked rocks out of my way with it, I have dug my way out of big holes, and dug my way into life saving situations .
I am a United States veteran who is homeless for five years, and have use this knife to open cans, make shelters, and protected myself. I will carry this knife forever. Nothing ever came loose. Whoever the guy was that is talking smack about this knife being loose in the handle being loose, I think he’s loose and just a complaining whining little b. I think you for the quality of this knife, and all the lives it has saved , Including the misery that it saved me from being without it.