[DieHard the Hunter]

> Somehow, they need to learn to hold a Kabar knife, and to feel the same way about it as they do their curved one.

You mean their Kirpan, the ceremonial dagger they carry? It’s actually blunt, and not used as a weapon (unlike the Gurkha’s kukuri knife).

Carrying the Kirpan is one of their religious precepts (I just barely understand this — a Sikh would be better at explaining it). It is roughly analogous to Catholics wearing a cross.

The Sikh would use the Ka-bar as his weapon, 100% every time.

[Starwolf]

The only toy Kirpans I see are in school or other places where carrying a knife is banned. Most of the Sikhs I know keep them theirs fully functional.