Does anyone carry a large fixed blade EDC?

[samhain73]

I carry a 3.5 blade length fixed everyday.

 

[Zip7]

One of my small business ventures is...

Sunnyd - various gummint agencies with famous initials now have you on the radar. They watch this internet thing real close, ya know...

 

[imaginefj]

I use larger blades for cleaning deer, some people swear by finger length blades but I think haveing control over a 6 inch blade or a 3 in blade is just as easy. When reaching inside the chest cavity of a deer the extra reach is nice.

 

[brizbane]

sunnyd,
About 25 years ago I went fishing alone at the Loxahatchee Wildlife Reserve if I recall correctly. I rented out a little boat with a small gas engine and proceeded pretty far into the swamp to bass fish at about 7am in a very thick fog. As the fog started to lift I began seeing gators everywhere and it was very unexpected and exciting but I felt very vulnerable in the small boat. Definitely a place to have a large knife handy,although I did not at the time. Is the place still this wild?

 

[sunnyd]

I know it well.. My old stomping grounds. I strapped on a Buck #102 woodsman fixed blade and holstered a hi-standard 9 shot .22 revolver back then as a matter of coarse, just like putting on a pair of pants or brushing your teeth. My best friends father ran the old bait-tackle shop and boat rental business for about ten years from the late 1960s - late 70s. He was an inboard-outboard boat motor mechanic so he made out like a bandit and worked 14-16 hour days/nights between both parts of the business. My pals and I lived out there for years as a second home hunting and fishing constantly!. We had a little tent colony complete with b-b-q pits and all. No bathrooms or showers back then. I remember in the 1970's we got port-a-potties, and man, I mean to tell you we thought we were s*!#@%g in high cotton then boy..

The bait-tackle portion of the shop closed off and on for years, but the boat rentals kept the owners a float in good times and bad.. That place is like lots of places here in Florida, and can be very erie in the fog and inclement weather if'n you're not used to it to be certain. You are absolutely right.. The Gators are so thick out their that in some places off the main canal systems you could literally walk on them like stepping stones(in theory but not very practical of coarse) to the shore line without ever touching water.

And, yes and no to your question about the place still being wild.. Their are places you can go in the swamp that are still just like time forgot, but mans involvement in polluting the everglades is truly a crying shame.

Wow, brizbane Thanks for taking me down memory lane partner!. The Loxahatchee Wildlife preserve is at the very southern tip of Palm Beach County right off St Rd 7/441 and head west to the dyke. I just thought I should mention it if anyone ever wanted to visit.

Anthony

 

[puukkoman]

I have a wide selection of Bark River knives, I like their smaller blades for EDC and rotate them around. My favorite of those blades is the IMP.

Me too! What do ya know!? I haven't heard of many folks who like the IMP as much as I do. If I don't have my Hedgehog, I'm wearing an IMP. It's a great slicer, and it's dressed & skinned several whitetail. Perfect little utility knife!

 

[ilbruche]

To your first question.. Yes.. I chose Rams horn out of an immense amount of different options. I don't know if you have ever used a knife while your hands were soaked in body fluids(blood & guts) but if you have then you know the down right uncomfortable, and often times, dangerous risks you take when you are trying to hold on to your knife and work it through the project in front of you. Rams horn scales/handles are absolutely the best scales to use for this application, bar none that I know of, or have ever used. They won't slip and actually get a good squeezable grippy feel when wet with blood, intestinal fluids, excrement, ect.. The best way I can describe it, is like one of the those kids dart guns that our children play with.. One licks the end of the rubber dart(plunger type dart) to get it to stick to the glass or mirror you are shooting at so it sticks well.. That's the feeling I am speaking of.

I love rams horn. I have an Ontario Rat-7 with rams horn scales. It's probably one of my top three favorite handle materials.