FOX COMBAT JUNGLE REVIEW

The FOX Combat Jungle is a KNIFE that I've had my eye on for a long long time. It's a big knife with a simple slick design made with an excellent  steel BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM's N690 martensitic cobalt stainless alloy. Maybe you might know this steel manufacturer by it's current  name:

Volstalpine Edelstahl GmbH? They are making some very high end knife steel alloys.

FOX knives/FOX Cutlery, FKMD have been making knives from this great corrosion resistant alloy for some years now.

The Fox Combat Jungle's details at a glance:

Teflon coated blade, 3D machined micarta scales;

3D Machined Micarta scales-very grippy but comfortable

 partially machined tang with protruding butt and lanyard hole. 

Generously sized lanyard hole 

This latter aspect helps to keep the balance centered around the position of the good sized finger choil. The spine also sports some excellent thumb and finger gimping.

Excellent thumb and finger gimping

I measured the blade thickness at 6.08mm just below the gimping. The data from FOX states the blade thickness at 5mm, this approximates better the average distance along the spine, excluding the narrowing tip. 

Overall view of the spine which varies from about 6mm to averaging 5
along the top of the blade

The published Rockwell is 58-60 and the warranty is for 1 year only. This somewhat short warranty period appears to rest on if a manufacturers defect appears, it would probably show up within one year of use. I'd prefer to see a lifetime warranty as many people don't use their knives every day for 365 days consecutively. So for example once a week is only 52 times a year representing only a mere 7th if of your one year warranty. That being said my other two FOX knives were and are heavily used for about 65 to 70 days of each year and no defects ever found.

 The grip is exactly the same as the FX132 another great but apparently little known in the USA. I've had the FX132 for several years now and beaten the daylights out of it in the field. Everyone I know who owns one loves it. The Combat Jungle is very comfortable in a swinging motion. So this brings me to the point of the FX133, The FOX JUNGLE. Same comfort, same great steel alloy, deadly sharp out of the box.

It comes with a waist belt mounted carry system, fully adjustable leg loops (I personally hate them and took them off-). Leg loops are good if you have to run with your knife strapped to you but  the Australian bush/jungle can get very dense so more to get caught up on things.

The scabbard has a removable hard plastic insert in which the Combat Jungle can only be inserted one way, ie the preference is for right hand insertion and removal. 

Simple and effective carry system

Removing a small screw at the base of the scabbard ( as seen in the above image at the bottom of the scabbard) enables you to extract the plastic liner for cleaning. There was about 2 ft of accessory cord inserted into riveted holes around the sheath. A bit short for me but you could swap this out for your own paracord etc. The scabbard can also be carried  a low position on the waist by using the extra removable velcro belt loop. There is a fully adjustable velcro closed generous sized pocket on the scabbard too.

I said earlier on I've been eyeing off this knife for a while and the reasoning behind this is that I reckon this is good model of useful design and practicality. Let's see if I'm right or wrong.

Ok enough said so far. This knife if out for field review over the coming months so stay tuned to BushCampingTools for the video review.