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    Here are my 3 from Himalayan Imports.

    Himalayan Imports also has excellent customer service and I couldn't recommend them enough if you are looking for a Khukri. When I ordered the Kobra the USPS decided to misplace it for awhile. I contacted HI and they had lost the tracking information. So HI sent me a second Kobra out the same day I contacted them. Well come to find out the first one the USPS misplaced finally arrived a month or so later. I contacted HI and they gave me the sale price on the second one they had sent me as a replacement. Great people to deal with!

    As a side note I'd stay away from the horn handles if someone is looking pick one of these up, as they develop cracks pretty easily.

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    A couple years ago I read an account of a former Mil PSC who was working overseas with some Gurkas and as a student of the blade he asked for some instruction on their combat technique with the khukri. The Gurka obliged by raising it high over his head and swinging it down, then again, and again, and again.

    I've got a beat to HELL old Cold Steel Light Khukri I'll have to get pic of and post. It's a master chopper.
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    Quote Originally Posted by misanthropist View Post
    Um...does the above post come out in three fonts for everyone else or am I not fully recovered from this three-day bender yet?

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    I had the pleasure of supervising some Ghurkas while working for DynCorp. Great group of guys. 20% of the bitching, 200% of the work vs supervising Americans. I did learn the British trained consider themselves a cut above the Indian trained (perhaps a generational issue, the British guys were older), and to not intermingle them if it could be avoided. Do that, and bitching was even more minimal.

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    Gurkhas, Gorkhas, Ghoorkas

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    "...was never among them during an action, but I was once privileged to watch, from a distance, a company of them attack a Japanese position. There was a Highland unit to their left, advancing at that slow, steady 110 paces per minute tread which used to be the trademark of the kilted regiments; the Gurkhas were trotting to keep up, little green figures with bush hats at a rakish angle, each man with his rifle at the trail in his left hand and his drawn kukri in his right. The Highlanders accelerated suddenly, but any noise they made was drowned by the earsplitting scream of the little hillmen going like demented dwarves, brandishing their knives as they scampered into the trees – and I was profoundly glad I was not Japanese. One of the Highlanders told me later…that they found the ground outside the position littered with Gurkha rifles. Most had gone in with kukris alone."
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    I've always wondered...
    What (if any) is the significance of the small notch in the blade ahead of the handle?
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    My understanding is that it symbolic of a portion of the female anatomy; I think it has something to do with Kali, but I don't know. I imagine Blues, or maybe a Googler, will show up shortly...
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    Quote Originally Posted by LOKNLOD View Post
    I've always wondered...
    What (if any) is the significance of the small notch in the blade ahead of the handle?
    It's very controversial. I remember "Uncle Bill" Martino (the late owner of Himalayan Imports) discussing it when I met him in FL years ago and online.

    People have attributed all kinds of significance but apparently the true meaning has been lost to history.

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