carrying a fixed blade

many people i have met here in canada see no need to carry a knife anytime, anywhere. i have friends that wont even carry one while camping or fishing. its just a weapon to them.

I get burned when people see my edc folder. the other day some guy sees my buddy ask for my knife to use and he says "omg you carry a pocket knife!" as if i have no reason to have one.I guess some people cant carry one because it seems to be some kind of masculine, self esteem thing to them.

My knife is a tool. I use it every day. that goes for EDC and bush knives. just tools.
 
couldn't agree more offshot... one thing that occurred to me is that in this age of modern covenience we see many peple who are far removed from ever doing any type of manual labor...office jockeys and such who where raised by the same this is not to knock anybody because by todays standards of success they are much better off than I, but when one is removed from working with ones hands or with the soil they become seperated from these tools... and than see them only in the context that they know them ( as weapons) most people I work with carry multitools but I am one of the only people I know personally that carries a knife everyday....
 
Ottoshot said:
many people i have met here in canada see no need to carry a knife anytime, anywhere. i have friends that wont even carry one while camping or fishing. its just a weapon to them.

I get burned when people see my edc folder. the other day some guy sees my buddy ask for my knife to use and he says "omg you carry a pocket knife!" as if i have no reason to have one.I guess some people cant carry one because it seems to be some kind of masculine, self esteem thing to them.

My knife is a tool. I use it every day. that goes for EDC and bush knives. just tools.
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Hey Ottoshot,

Where abouts in Canada are you?

Doc
 
try to EDC even a folder on a college campus. I went from having my RAT 5 strapped to my belt for work this summer with a ka-bar MULE in my pocket as my EDC to barely being able to use my leatherman wave with out getting funny looks. Luckily the wave is all i need.

I tried to EDC the MULE when i first got here but got way too many "HOLY SHIT" reactions when i needed to cut something. The leatherman in its belt pouch also got a lot of looks. Luckily all my pants have big pockets, so i just keep it there.

a world without sheeple would be a great place.
 
Everytime someone gives me a "Holy Sh**" reaction when I use one of my knives I have to litterally stifle a laugh.
 
It is like gun laws. Usually, if not always it is retarded people who have no training or even a permit to carry guns do the shooting and killing. When sheeple get scared and enact laws that take away our rights to own them, it only hurts the good folk who are responsible with them, and the crooks continue to kill.
Considering knives, it is understandable how someone could be afraid of them, after all, Americans are educated by television where they watch murderous movies like Halloween, etc. They forget how integral a tool it is in the bush, and those carrying them IN THE BUSH are not out to slice you up and eat you as most would think (although I am sure there are a few people in the world who would).
My bet, if you're going to wear it on your belt, make sure it is a bushcraft weilding size, no more than four to five inches. If you're going to get all Rambo on us, keep it in your pack or under the radar somehow (because if you ever experience a moment where you really need it, you can take it out and use it, unless you're being confronted by a dangerous animal, which even if you have it on y our belt, you're still done for). If you're ever in a situation where you might be searched, let the authorities know first hand up front that you have it to establish with them that you're A okay.
 
mystical woodsman said:
(because if you ever experience a moment where you really need it, you can take it out and use it, unless you're being confronted by a dangerous animal, which even if you have it on y our belt, you're still done for).
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No, don't fall into the 'anti knife verbal BS lies' being circulated out there. Knives have saved numerous people and their loved one's from animal attacks over the ages.
 
My thought exactly, be up front about things and people should feel a little more secure just knowing what and where your rambo knives are at. If they see a guy who wears his shirt tucked in and the sheath knife is in plain sight, they are probably just going to glance at it and maybe even say "hi." Whereas if you have your shirt baggy and low and the last two inches of the sheath is revealed, they are probably going to stare at it funny and veer a little more away from you when passing by. I'm not saying it's about the shirt and how you wear your clothes, but it does make a difference to be able to "know" the knife is there as to "guessing" what is there.
 
On a trail, no. At the grocery store, yes.
 
I spend roughly half a week in the city and half outside (at my dad's farm), I also do as much outdoors activities as possible, luckily my family owns some land in the mountains which is a great starting point for hunting, fishing and long horse back trips (usually a week or so long, often longer).

When I'm at the farm, nobody gives my knife a second look. If they make a comment it's usually a question about the knife along the lines of "Where did you get it?" rather than "Why are you carrying it?". Even when I go to the nearby toewn for groceries I get no looks, hell when I'm carrying a traditional Argentine knife and riding my horse to the hardware store tourists usually snap pictures. The only knives that caused me some trouble were a Fallkniven F1 and a Frosts Laplander that had fully enclosed sheaths that an edgy policeman mistook for gun holsters, but I cleared the missunderstanding quickly and went on my merry way.

While hiking or hunting outdoors, I've had a few encounters with city folks who had some interesting comments about my knives, I just ignore them. Some people think that anything larger than a SAK is a fearsome weapon that has no use other than harming people. I worked as a hunting guide for a few seasons and I was appalled by the comments my own customers made. I had to put my fixed blade in my pack a few times, after all they were writting my paycheck.

I don't dress in military looking clothes, and I tend to carry 4" or 5" knives with nice shiny blades and natural handle materials. But that's just because I like it, if you like dressing up in camo BDUs and carrying a black bladed knife, that's your bussines and nobody else's. Sheeple can be educated, it takes time, but it is possible. I work with an American non profit organization and most of the volunteers and intern we get are college kids who want to live in South America for a while, usually left wing oriented and very anti-gun kind of people. Well, when they get here and meet me they are sometimes shocked by my knife habits, but after I've opened a gazillion boxes, fixed more things than they can remember with my multi-tool and nobody gets stabbed they usually relax and sometimes ask me for knife advice for their outdoors pursuits.
 
I often carry my buck 119 on my belt when hiking. I usually get no comments. Of course, I look like a friendly dad - type and usually remain inconspicuous wherever I am.

There was this one time where a guy with his kid made a comment to me on a public trail. He had three crappy digi cameras and was prettending to be Mr. Photo expert. He asked me about my knife and I showed it to him. He handled it complimented it then gave it back. As I turned around, I heard him whisper to his kid, that any bushman knows that only a 4" knife is required in the woods and that I must be a city slicker with no clue to how to use it. That really pissed me off, and then I once even read the same comment here on the forums.

Well - perhaps it worked, because I now have a 4" knife that I like alot. The 119 sure isn't going into the drawer graveyard though!
 
what does Cougar Allen call it? a Meme? He has talked about memes in some of his posts. I think that's the name of it. Its when an idea or a concept takes on a kind of independent life of its own, it becomes self perpetuating. Like a thought virus. And its amazing how virulent a meme can become. Before you know it the meme infects the whole population and now everybody is using the same phrase or repeating the same concept. Most memes I think are commercial but some are political. The political ones are the danger. Give you an example, my sister grew up with a dad who taught her how to shoot a gun when she was 10, her brothers all hunted, carried knives, bows, guns and so on. Ive been away for years in the Navy, and lived in Yokosuka, and I hadnt seen her for a long time. Just the other day I went down to visit her in Philly. We are having a great time, everybody chatting and eating around the table. Well a box of dounuts wouldnt open with a finger nail, so I took out my victorinox trekker and opened it up. My sister said "oh my god, why are you carrying that knife?" WTF? That meme of knife as weapon, to be banned from institutions and spurned by civilized person was powerfull and pernicious enough to infect somebody that should have known better. Really weird experience but it made me realize how important memes are in human culture, I guess if we want to keep carrying knives we need to fight back with positive memes of our own. Because the forces of pacification( ultimately leading to domination and controll) waste no time and effort cranking out memes of their own.
 
I carry a fixed blade on my belt, all day, every day! It's a small Gene Ingram on the weekend or after work, and a Scrapyard Guard at work.

I don't worry about it at all.
 
Hey Shipwreck, you got it kind of right. The word 'meme' was coined by sociologists and anthropologists to provide an analgy of culture produced memories being similar to genes. Memories don't require DNA to become fixed, and thus allow for more rapid evolution than heritable traits do.
 
"MEMES" Hmmmm.....I think the best way to counter this anti-knife memes is to actually ware a knife everyday in full view, and once the sheep settle down we've counterd with our own Memes. (hehehehe mental conditioning is fun)
 
A lacer...nice little knife.

Incidentally I am also in Canada...but of course packing a knife raises a lot fewer eyebrows out here in the West (even in Vancouver, although they do occasionally try to take something away if I go into a bar!)

But I am working right in the city at the moment and pack the Guard on my belt every day out on the street, never have a hassle. Most of the guys I know carry at least a folder...at least!
 
Here is my normal everyday attire:

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