RAT Knives History

Randall's Adventure & Training (RAT) has been designing, marketing and and selling survival and military styled knives since 1997. One of their first designs was the RTAK which was built for them by Newt Livesay's Wicked Knife Company long before Ontario Knife Company produced the design. In fact, Ontario Knife Company used a Newt Livesay knife to build the first Ontario prototype. Read about the RTAK here: Page 1 and page 2. We also produced and sold the RAT skinning / survival knife made by John Greco (read TK article), and the RAT Laser Strike knife made by TOPS (Photo left of US Army SERE class using the Laser Strike knife). The RAT Laser Strike was the cover story of the September 2001 issue of Tactical Knives magazine. You can also read about the initial design phases and see a prototype  of the RAT Laser Strike project in the October 2000 issue of American Survival Guide magazine. 

RAT owns the following knife designs / names: the RAT skinner, RAT Laser Strike, RTAK, RTAK II, TAK, RAT-7, RAT-5, RAT-3, Model 1 (Folder), RC-3, RC-4, RC-6, and the sheath systems for the RC-3, RC-4 and RC-6. 

RAT owned designs and the manufacturers who built them (historical information only):

RTAK: Newt Livesay, Wicked Knife Company, Ontario Knife Co. (After April, 2002)
RAT Knife: Randall's Adventure & Training
RAT Knife: Greco Knives
RAT Laser Strike: TOPS Knives
Jungle Kit (Survival Kit): Randall's Adventure & Training
Mini Jungle Kit (Survival kit): Randall's Adventure & Training
Jungle Charger (Solar Charger): Randall's Adventure & Training
TAK: Ontario Knife Company
RAT-7: Ontario Knife Company
RAT-3: Ontario Knife Company
RTAK-II: Ontario Knife Company
Model 1 Folder: Paul Lin (Taiwan) 
RC-3: RAT Cutlery Company
RC-4: RAT Cutlery Company
RC-6: RAT Cutlery Company
Izula: RAT Cutlery Company
RC-5 SERE: RAT Cutlery Company
RAT Fire Kit
RAT Survival / E&E Kit: Randall's Adventure and Training / RAT Cutlery Company

RAT only guarantees and offers customer service on knives built by RAT Cutlery Company (knives found on this web site) and does not guarantee or offer any customer service for knives that are manufactured by any other company,  regardless of the misuse of our trademarks.