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Ronin
The first ordinance contract knife was the Ames rifleman knife. It was made and issued to a regiment of mounted rifleman who were to be issued rifled muskets rather than the usual smoothbore muskets. This regiment would be armed with three unique and important weapons in history, the 1841 Mississippi rifle, the Walker Colt and the Ames rifleman knife, talk about your special forces of the day.