Do you carry a fixed blade attached to your pack? How?

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I like to do a lot of hiking and camping, and I sometimes like to attach my knife to my pack, but I am having a hard time figuring out a good way to do it. The problem is that for larger packs like a full size backpacking pack, I am not able to put a blade on my waist because the hip belt gets in the way. There are several ways to attach it to the front part of the pack, but then it is not reachable unless I take it off.

Some ways that I have tried is to attach the knife though the pack's hipbelt. This works on my camelbak, but it tends to slide around a bit. It does not work on my backpacking pack because of the way the hipbelt works. I have also tried to attach it to the lower part of the shoulder straps. This works on most packs, but the knife I usually use is a regular KaBar, so I can't just loop the shoulder strap though the sheath without a lot of work. Last time I used a small carabiner so that I could easily get the knife off of the back strap

What are some ways that you do it? I know that each pack is different, but I would like to get some ideas of how you do it.
 
I attach mine upside down to a shoulder strap or horizontally on a hip belt strap. Of course, you need a sheath that will firmly hold the blade in place in order to make this work.
 
Make a Baldric rig for it....

Now that I have confused you with the big name...

Basically, it is a sheath, with a strap on it.

What this creates, is a sheath that you can hang off your shoulder.

If you are wearing anything that excludes belt carry, you can wear this over those items, including a bacpack, or a heavy winter coat.

Like this, though I think I would prefer the attachment points slightly different, or more of them....

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=6721256

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I like to carry one inverted on the left shoulder strap of my pack (I'm right handed) for quick easy access.
 
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This is what I did.
I can clip it almost anywhere I like,
the main purpose was to hang it from a climbing harness though.
 
Make or modify a horizontal drop sheath that drops under the hip belt, if you hang anything under the pack like a sleeping bag or stuff sack it will be fully concealed.
 
Here's how I have attached a few.

I draw these over my right shoulder.
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This one is drawn underhand from the bottom. I used a Kabar this way too, but I don't have a pic of it.
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These can all be drawn and resheathed without taking the pack off, although it takes some finesse. The black pack uses MOLLE webbing, as do both sheaths attached to it. The red pack just uses two sort of bungee cord compression bands. One secures the top of the sheath and the other is just wrapped around the bottom to keep it from flipping over.


No, its not really necessary. Yes, I like it. :)
 
You could have one of the sheath makers make you a dangler loop,and either put a metal ring on your sheath or use a binger. That way,when you carry the pack,you can drop the knife below the hip belt. The loop typically either uses snaps or chicago screws,so you can detach it when not in use.
 
I carry an RC-3 on my shoulder strap, but it's MOLLE, so that helps out a lot. :)

For reference, the bag is a Maxpedition Malaga Gearslinger.
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This is the first time I've ever carried a knife like this but it turned out to be very comfortable. It was easy to draw and resheath. It attached with a teck-lock.

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I use the molle system or Teklok. For more 'Traditional' wares, I use the Baldric! :)

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The first 2 pictures are of a sheath, for my HG55 Mil Overrun, that I wanted mounted behind my HSGI EOD pouch, on the right side of my pack. It allows quick access while not scaring people that don't understand a knife in the woods. The last picture is of a baldric rig built for my NMFBM and Muskrat. I keep that in my pack until I get to camp.

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Make your own dangler sheath by clipping a carabiner to the belt loop, and through one of your pants belt loops. It keeps it out of the way of your hipbelt, while still keeping it on your person.

This is what I do and it works perfectly. My knife is one thing I want attached to me, and not my pack.

Or like someone mentioned, have a dangler sheath made for you, or buy a knife, like a lot of the Scandi's that come with dangler sheaths.

In fact, here are a couple of pics for you. I'm the guy on the left of this photo, and you can see the blue carabiner, keeps my knife well out of the way of my hipbelt.

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And here's another shot, that's a little easier to see what I'm talking about.

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stingray4540 said:
Make your own dangler sheath by clipping a carabiner to the belt loop, and through one of your pants belt loops.
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Great tip! I love it, simple and effective! :thumbup::thumbup:

Now why the heck did I think of that? Heck, another idea is to make up an appropriate sized paracord lanyard and rig that up to dangle the sheath. This way you can have a lanyard on hand if you want one but not necessarily attached to the knife for when you don't want it.
 
I keep a larger knife attached to pack ,RC6 molle clips to pygmy falconII,my NWA Sierra scout on my belt attached to me !
 
Um. I want a helicopter so I can get to all of the nice fishing spots easily. :eek: Good heavens, man. That's the coolest redneck-pimp ride I've ever seen.
 
I attach mine much how is already posted. I use the same setup ironically as Gundy shows when I am going on hikes. I might switch out the Ash for something else but same pack.
 
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