Back Pocket Carry Question

A lot depends, I bet, on the type of pants. Jeans are usually tight over the butt, and you'll definitely notice the lump when you sit, even if it doesn't harm the knife. But the pressure and rubbing will soon wear a coarse, obvious "print" of the knife in the fabric, just as a wallet or keys would do. If you wear looser pants — cargo or hiking ones — then you have more options and less chance of a print on the fabric. Also, the pocket load will shift when you sit, so it won't feel as much like you're sitting on small pile of metal chunks.

This is very much an individual matter!
 
I love carrying in my back pocket. I use a pocketslip, and it works perfectly.

I find I have too much crap in my front pockets, so I am glad to move something out.
 
Back pocket carry was a bit of an epiphany for me. I hate having anything in my front pockets at work since I'm often leaning against a machine or workbench and things in my front pockets wear holes in my pants. I put keys and anything else from my pockets in my toolbox in the morning. I'd seen shell handle knives get the scales mushed in back pockets (although they kept right on working).

There was a thread asking about back pocket carry some time ago and people said it was no problem. So I got a Rough Rider Barlow and tried it. I wear baggy uniform pants and the knife drops to the bottom sideways.

I'm on my feet most of the day but I sit on and off throughout the day on hard wooden benches and eat lunch sitting on them. I had no damage to the Barlow and have since carried many knives this way including a modified Opinel #6. A knife is handy there and out of the way when leaning against things. I've had no noticeable damage to any knife.

Since then I've had the notsolittle woman sew a little knife pocket toward the rear of a front pocket to hold the knife vertical and back. I never wanted to sew a seam in the pocket itself since I then couldn't put my hand in. I like Pinnah's idea of doing that to a back pocket.

Watch pocket carry while not at work.

Get yourself a cheap knife and try it.
 
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As far as trousers go I either wear cowboy cut Wranglers(they never wear out) or classic Dickies. One or the other. I tend to wear the jeans more as my favorite belt is too wide for the loops on the dickies(it makes me angry all the time). Same problem effects wearing a belt sheath:grumpy:

P.S. Neither of these have watch pockets for some unknown reason.
 
I generally have one knife in my back pocket, and one in the front (both on the right side). The front pocket holds a little one, like a barlow or a small jack; the back one is where the larger one rides, like a fill-size coke bottle, toothpick, folding hunter, or daddy barlow, tucked in next to a bandana to keep it sitting up vertically.
It's a good carry method for me. In my experience, the front pocket is more likely to let a knife slip out, never from the back (if I'm sitting in a chair, then my butt's on top of it, so it's not going anywhere... and if I'm in a car seat that slopes down at the rear, then the front pocket is the one that turns upside-down-ish allowing a knife to slip out, while the back pocket is again underneath my hiney...). Maybe this is because my jeans are snug enough that the back pocket knife generally stays put. If I wore loose, floppy pants, I could imagine that things might work out differently (but I can't stand to wear over-size clothing... makes me feel like it's 1994 again and Kris Kross is on the radio).

So... if you want to give it a try, your knife should be fine; and, depending on how you wear your pants, it could be a secure and comfortable carry option.
 
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When I'm wearing a climbing harness or safty belt is the only time I carry in the back pocket with a lanyard.
 
My Lanny's Clip rides in the bottom of my right back pocket very well. I think the knife has to be very slim to work there.
 
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