The Scout Platoon is the scout pattern at platoon strength, the big end of the Battle Horse Knives scout family: 5.375 inches of O1 cutting edge, 11 inches overall, 12 ounces of full tang knife on 4mm stock. Where the Patriot Scout covers belt-knife chores, the Scout Platoon steps into camp blade territory, the one in the family that splits kindling, breaks down big game, and shrugs off the heavy work.
The pattern goes back to the Blind Horse era, and used Scout Platoons from those years still trade on the forums in every grind the shop ever ran, scandi, flat, and saber alike. What DLT stocks today is the saber version, the toughest of the three for batoning and hard camp use, in natural, green, or black matte canvas micarta. Owners praise how the smooth, rounded handle fills the hand without hotspots, and that matters more here than on any smaller Battle Horse, because a twelve ounce knife you cannot hold comfortably is a knife that stays in camp. Handmade in Cambridge, Ohio.