EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

Despite being very much in New England, Cape Cod is nothing like the larger extent of that region, particularly for winter weather. Unlike our Vermont acreage, our average winter temps don't often drop too far below freezing, we get very little snow here, and what we do get doesn't stick around long. These last couple days have been anomalous with the thermometer reading around 10 and a foot of snow dropping on us between noon Sunday and this morning.

I spent Saturday night and most of Sunday morning texting, emailing, and phoning to see if we could get our club's last regular season home basketball games played, but, with the blowing snow and cold temps, the driving was hazardous and only got worse as the day progressed. I got all ready to open the gym just in case and chose a non-threatening knife to carry, but after cancelling our games and settling in to watch the NFL Conference Finals, I got out my recently acquired Ruckus to go along with 550-1 that was already in pocket.

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Today, we attacked the foot of heavying snow on the two stretches of driveway from both the house and the garage/woodshop next door. We had fired up the Ariens 28 snow-thrower a couple days back after it had sat idle for some years and it did quite well clearing a couple hundred feet of dirt and T-base drives. I grabbed my old work user, comb-edge Tenacious as I thought a beater might be a more appropriate carry for such a task.

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I've had a couple occasions when I've been reluctant to carry the Ruckus as its nice-looking, deep carry clip provides little retention for such a heavy knife and I'd sure hate to lose it. I've had that clip off a few times now, bending it just a little more with each attempt, and have finally gotten it to the point where I have more confidence in it staying in my jeans. I'm still gonna be cautious, though....

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ChazzyP said:
Despite being very much in New England, Cape Cod is nothing like the larger extent of that region, particularly for winter weather. Unlike our Vermont acreage, our average winter temps don't often drop too far below freezing, we get very little snow here, and what we do get doesn't stick around long. These last couple days have been anomalous with the thermometer reading around 10 and a foot of snow dropping on us between noon Sunday and this morning.

I spent Saturday night and most of Sunday morning texting, emailing, and phoning to see if we could get our club's last regular season home basketball games played, but, with the blowing snow and cold temps, the driving was hazardous and only got worse as the day progressed. I got all ready to open the gym just in case and chose a non-threatening knife to carry, but after cancelling our games and settling in to watch the NFL Conference Finals, I got out my recently acquired Ruckus to go along with 550-1 that was already in pocket.

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Today, we attacked the foot of heavying snow on the two stretches of driveway from both the house and the garage/woodshop next door. We had fired up the Ariens 28 snow-thrower a couple days back after it had sat idle for some years and it did quite well clearing a couple hundred feet of dirt and T-base drives. I grabbed my old work user, comb-edge Tenacious as I thought a beater might be a more appropriate carry for such a task.

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I've had a couple occasions when I've been reluctant to carry the Ruckus as its nice-looking, deep carry clip provides little retention for such a heavy knife and I'd sure hate to lose it. I've had that clip off a few times now, bending it just a little more with each attempt, and have finally gotten it to point where I have more confidence in it staying in my jeans. I'm still gonna be cautious, though....

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When I lived in Maine, I lost my Strider SNG right around the time we got our first snow at beginning of the winter. I had no clue where, but I was pretty sure I knew how it happened as it had gotten caught on the seatbelt as I took it off several times before when I was getting out of my truck. I found that knife months later during mud season just sitting on the ground on the driveway right by where my drivers door would’ve been.
 
BP Green said:
When I lived in Maine, I lost my Strider SNG right around the time we got our first snow at beginning of the winter. I had no clue where, but I was pretty sure I knew how it happened as it had gotten caught on the seatbelt as I took it off several times before when I was getting out of my truck. I found that knife months later during mud season just sitting on the ground on the driveway right by where my drivers door would’ve been.
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I only ever lost one, years ago, and found it much like you, but only a day later. I came home from our nearby harbor back when we kept a boat down there and realized I didn't have my knife, I looked in the truck, then had other stuff to do and didn't keep searching, thinking I maybe left it on the boat. I went back down the next day, parking where I always did opposite the beach-grass circle by the back docks, got out of the truck, looked down, and there it was, right on the dirt road next to my foot. Probably got snagged on the seatbelt just like yours. Funny, coz that was the Tenacious I carried today.
 
ChazzyP said:
I only ever lost one, years ago, and found it much like you, but only a day later. I came home from our nearby harbor back when we kept a boat down there and realized I didn't have my knife, I looked in the truck, then had other stuff to do and didn't keep searching, thinking I maybe left it on the boat. I went back down the next day, parking where I always did opposite the beach-grass circle by the back docks, got out of the truck, looked down, and there it was, right on the dirt road next to my foot. Probably got snagged on the seatbelt just like yours. Funny, coz that was the Tenacious I carried today.
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I lost that same knife again years later and found it the second time when I ran it over with my lawn tractor as I was mowing. It friggin survived that too. I have no idea how. I gave that knife to my son who was a cop in Minnesota at that time and he eventually lost it for good. 😂
 
sharp image said:
That boys a stud.
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Indeed he is ! We’re lucky to have the talented and humble young man. Can you imagine if JSN and Puka were on the same team ? 🔥🔥🔥
sharp image said:
Beauty brother
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Appreciate it pard. It’s so elegant yet sturdy. A wiser man than me would lock it away to preserve its resale value…but I can’t. She’s screaming at me to try out the ZDP189 convex edge at HRC 67.4 and also break the action in. Gotta ride it like ya stole it, right !?! 🤣🤣🤣
 
BP Green said:
I lost that same knife again years later and found it the second time when I ran it over with my lawn tractor as I was mowing. It friggin survived that too. I have no idea how. I gave that knife to my son who was a cop in Minnesota at that time and he eventually lost it for good. 😂
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A checkered history for that one, for sure. I have knives that are keepers, knives that I didn't want to keep, but that knife definitely wanted to get away on its own.
 
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