CS Outdoorsman

[jamaljahda]

I am interested in purchasing a cold steel outdoorsman but want to know if the bone breaker on he back side would be considered a doubled edged blade by law enforcement. Double edged blades are illegal to carry to my knowledge

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

It's enough of a gray area that you might as well consider it one. I'd just dull the edge, and then it's a funky swedge.

 

[Calebklyne]

i wouldnt think it would be a problem because it doesnt help the knife pierce but you may want to check with local law enforcement

 

[Larry Turko]

My strong feeling is that you'd have to run into a real dick of a cop, for him or her to argue that the bone breaker makes the Outdoorsman a double edged knife. This is off topic, but I've always been bugged by the name "Outdoorsman". I know that it does have the bonebreaker, just as we've discussed, but to me, it's too pretty and looks too much like a Japanese style tanto to be a hunting knife. I refer to mine as the "Ronin". The next time I meet up with Lynn for a few brewskis, I'm going to tell him to change the name.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

it's too pretty and looks too much like a Japanese style tanto to be a hunting knife.

And why is a tanto a bad hunting knife?

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

I don't think that was his criticism--rather that the appearance and the name seem not to "aesthetically mesh".

 

[foxx]

My Outdoorsman's bone breaker is not sharp at all. Never was sharpened, and won't cut a thing. I couldn't imagine anyone calling it a sharpened edge. The tip is too thick for good stabbing depth anyway.
It does look Japanese, that's why I got mine, must have been 10 years or so.

 

[Larry Turko]

I don't think that was his criticism--rather that the appearance and the name seem not to "aesthetically mesh".

You gave the perfect answer for me. Thank-you.

 

[verisharp]

check out the outdoorsman lite too... it's as cheap price wise as the roach belly, but it's modeled after the outdoorsman