The Story Behind America’s First Hunting Knife

[Mister Mills]

Here's an oddball Camillus: the MC-1 Paratrooper. Issued as a shroud cutter in the Viet Nam era. Not their best knife, and strangely enough the blade was spring loaded instead of the emergency shroud cutter.

That hook blade is easy to figure out, it would grab the canopy lines pretty well; and the blade is a GP design, for slicing anything. I guess that it what they were aiming for, plus it is a switchblade from the sounds of it.

I have a funny story about switchblades, a WV State Trooper showed up at a drill, and was selling them from the trunk of his patrol car. At the time, they may have been illegal to own in WV; and when I brought that up, he gave me a "Don't worry about it." look. ....I have lived an odd life.
I have learned to roll with the punches though.