Accidental opening.

Boattale

Boattale

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Have you ever had a knife open in your pocket? I see posts cautioning about the danger - most recently after I posted about lightening the spring in my Manix. It's never happened to me and never means ever.

Anyone here have that experience?
 
Yes, MBK Sea Otter. The studs stick far out past the handle and are very grippy. It easily opens clipped and unclipped loose in the pocket unfortunately
 
yes a recessed plunger lock auto before.

I keep lot of stuff in my pockets and wear jeans and something musta jammed against it and pushed the button while i was working and moving around. luckily it was tip up pcket clip setup and i have too much in my pockets for it to really open wide. so I didnt get cut but it opened my eyes to how a safety on plunger lock autos arent a bad thing to have at all on carried knives.
 
I had a SHF "Spartan Babe"(?) open in my pocket, and it got my thumb pretty damn good.

I chucked it down the long hallway of our house and haven't carried it since.
 
Boattale said:
Have you ever had a knife open in your pocket? I see posts cautioning about the danger - most recently after I posted about lightening the spring in my Manix. It's never happened to me and never means ever.

Anyone here have that experience?
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Yup. And they were all earlier to mid gen Hinderers. Sliced me up pretty good too. . .
 
Only once, minor poke as I was in no hurry. Cannot remember the knife, which is unfortunate as it could happen again. I don't like a poor detent or a loose pivot, so I will fix the detent and/or tighten the pivot. Loose enough to thumb flick, tight enough for a controlled close. With people I practice avoidance, with knives I try to think my way around their shortcomings.
 
Not in a very long time. Back when I usually bought cheaper knives. Had a blade open enough that reaching in my pocket it sliced me since the blade was only held closed by pressure from the liner lock with no detent.

Thinking back I had the spring in a 110 break and was still trying to use it anyways. I knew it didn't hold the blade closed and still was lazy and dropped it back in the sheath the wrong direction. Being young and dumb I threw it out into the ocean in a hissy of anger. Baby doc stitched me up and I had to resort to my Gator. I miss being young but I don't miss being that dumb.

Oh, tip down knives are the devil... Had several of them poke through pants or stab me in the leg. I won't carry one now unless it's in the back pocket with the blade held against the pocket seem and it better have a tight fitting clip and a good detent.
 
After reading here on BF, about a guy skewering his scrotum with his Leek ...I became very careful ! :oops:

If there's a lock safety , I use it . I figure it's there for a reason .

Weak detent , I fix or get rid of it . Because I've had a few of those open, a little , in pocket before .
 
Boattale said:
Even though it hasn't happened to me I still carry tip up in RF pocket. Which seems practically fail safe to me.

Are there contrary examples?
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if it opens a bit and you reach in for it without looking you'll get bit.....always best to look before you grab in general...if possible
 
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