Frag Out! Magazine
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It was already close to the cottage made of the wooden balls, the forest slowly started to thin out, revealing a rocky shore and a stream shimmering in the Sun. Among the resign aroma of the primeval forest it could be noticed a refreshing smell of water, however it was also accompanied by the other smell, intensive and animal one. Burbling of the stream was interrupted by a low, wrathful grumbling. The man stopped and slowly slid the rifle from his arm, turning towards a place in which he put the foothold traps in the morning. In the iron jaws was struggling a brown shape. The animal threw itself several times more, and then came out of the entrapment and while foaming at the mouth, it moved towards the trapper. The hunter cocked the hammer and pulled the trigger, but instead of a bang was heard only an empty snap. The heart bits, rhythmically as the clock hands were measuring time to an unvoiced confrontation. Steel shimmered, along the blade run down the warm, dense blood. Dusk was falling, the man was sitting in the wooden room, leaned over a densely written piece of paper. Drops of sweat dropped from his forehead, dissolving in some places a black ink so that from the final phrase "kill a bear" left only a few legible letters - k a b ar. He put the letter into the envelope and addressed to it to the owner of the Union Cutlery Co. of Olean company in New York state. *** According to a legend this is how the name of one of the most popular knife manufacturers in the world was born. KA-BAR. The most probably, it was simply an acronym from Knife Accessory – Browning Automatic Rifle, nevertheless a marketing history with a bear up till now has been an official version. The history of KA-BAR begins in the end 19th century, however for a popularity this brand had to wait to the Second World War. In 1942, the most famous and still worshiped USMC model was designed for US Marine www.fragoutmag.com