Fixed blade carry

DaveHb said:
After get in a ways not to big deal to clear a path.
Start clearing a visible one here and within 3 months have atv’s cutting in leaving trash hanging from trees or in the road.
I’ve hauled out truck loads of trash.
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Wow... that must be very irritating. Can't stand littering. Going to buy myself one of those claw-trash-grabber things just to do something about it when I walk around. But, I'm still in an area where you can expect that kind of thing, I think if I was in nature, the anger would be multiplied. Good on you for getting the trash.
 
DaveHb said:
Maybe some of the issues is my tall, narrow waist, lanky frame.
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There’s your trouble. Too bad you’re not short and fat like me.

You mentioned carrharts, I live in them. I made a vertical carry leather sheath with a copper liner for my fixed blades that I wear at 8 o’clock, right behind my hip. About 3” of handle sticks above my belt, and I put the tip down in my rear pocket. My backpack hipbelt (old wornout Kelty) fits right over it and leaves a perfect slot for drawing and resheathing the knife. Same with my old leather toolbelt.

Don’t know if that helps you, but it works well for me.

Parker
 
Hashishiin said:
Wow... that must be very irritating. Can't stand littering. Going to buy myself one of those claw-trash-grabber things just to do something about it when I walk around. But, I'm still in an area where you can expect that kind of thing, I think if I was in nature, the anger would be multiplied. Good on you for getting the trash.
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Anger definitely multiplied. I carry contractor trash bags with me now just for that.
50 years living here and seen more trash last few years than…..Also a reason I take brushier routes and try not to create a visible trail by walking in same way multiple times as a trail beckons to certain types of “hikers” if they can be called that. Last time I didn’t worry about creating a trail they start going down it with atv’s leaving trash at the end where they had to stop, and ruined one my hunting spots.
 
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I don't know if I'm doing something really right or if some of you guys are doing stuff really wrong because for just about forever I've been neck carrying my Benchmade Altitude and belt carrying my Ka-Bar (usually without the button connected) through heavy woods with loads of thorn bushes and I've never even had them snagged on anything
 
Sir Drop-em Flat said:
I don't know if I'm doing something really right or if some of you guys are doing stuff really wrong because for just about forever I've been neck carrying my Benchmade Altitude and belt carrying my Ka-Bar (usually without the button connected) through heavy woods with loads of thorn bushes and I've never even had them snagged on anything
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Where, and how do you carry your k-bar?
 
catspa said:
There’s your trouble. Too bad you’re not short and fat like me.

You mentioned carrharts, I live in them. I made a vertical carry leather sheath with a copper liner for my fixed blades that I wear at 8 o’clock, right behind my hip. About 3” of handle sticks above my belt, and I put the tip down in my rear pocket. My backpack hipbelt (old wornout Kelty) fits right over it and leaves a perfect slot for drawing and resheathing the knife. Same with my old leather toolbelt.

Don’t know if that helps you, but it works well for me.

Parker
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My size can be a pain to find clothes to fit. Carharts about the only manufacturer I can occasionally still find my size that aren’t skinny jeans. Plus all the pockets and hammer loops come in handy for work.
You carry at bit of an angle behind your back with the knife scabbard in the back left pocket?
Do I understand that right?
 
DaveHb said:
So you’re saying you’ve never hunted the Wylie ringtail, and had them head for thick brush, had to go get your dog, or game ya took down?

I’ll bet a 300lb boar comes charging down the trail you’ll hit that kind of brush. 😁

And they do make briar chaps for raccoon and few other type hunters who do go into heavy brush.
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Long ago I got to go on a few hunting trips to a friend's small farm in south Texas, hunting Quail. There are a lot of spots with real heavy brush, and all of it has thorns. They supposedly have a lot of snakes too so at first we wore plastic leggings that snapped over your shins. The part of your jeans above the chaps would get shredded in one trip. Later I found some thick heavy material brush pants that were also supposed to resist snakebite, they would stand up very well to the brush with thorns. You could look for easy ways through the brush but you couldn't avoid it completely or go around it. I wasn't carrying a belt knife but occasionally a small belt holster. A person out for a Sunday stroll in the woods could avoid some amount of brush, we could not.
 
Dave, it’s pretty vertical and rides inside the left edge of the left rear pocket. The first one I made, the knife rode too low and I only had about an inch grip to draw it out.

Parker
 
DaveHb said:
Fellow woodsmen and women; What are some shoulder, bandolier, or sling type carry found most efficient for larger knives?
I’ve been experimenting with alternatives and looking at shoulder rig and across chest designs for a while. Haven’t quite found best overall position yet. Pictures appreciated.
Unless it’s managed forest belt carry is a joke.
Carry photos not mine.
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Once you snap the ESEE 5 in its kydex sheath, it aint going no place without you pulling it out.
 
Awesome video. Good setup.
Button was good idea. Can see benefits over being anchored to a belt. Allow free movement when sitting down opposed to adjusting it every time take a seat.
It’d make getting in and out of vehicle up to dozen times a day a breeze plus high enough under arm not gonna snag anything.
 
catspa said:
Dave, it’s pretty vertical and rides inside the left edge of the left rear pocket. The first one I made, the knife rode too low and I only had about an inch grip to draw it out.

Parker
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Gave it a test run yesterday.
Not too bad. At least back isn’t sore. I’ll find out after couple days getting in and out of truck and driving a lot again.
 
Perhaps different ways of going in the woods too I guess.
Gathering punky wood today. Faster to crawl through to get to old deadfall’s rather than spend couple hours chopping my way in, and clearing around, then another 30minutes chopping to get to next one.
Knife on belt snags. lol
Mid thigh pocket more apt to catch leg before it catches knife handle though. Just happened to have my phone in pocket when that one happened.
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bdmicarta said:
Long ago I got to go on a few hunting trips to a friend's small farm in south Texas, hunting Quail. There are a lot of spots with real heavy brush, and all of it has thorns. They supposedly have a lot of snakes too so at first we wore plastic leggings that snapped over your shins. The part of your jeans above the chaps would get shredded in one trip. Later I found some thick heavy material brush pants that were also supposed to resist snakebite, they would stand up very well to the brush with thorns. You could look for easy ways through the brush but you couldn't avoid it completely or go around it. I wasn't carrying a belt knife but occasionally a small belt holster. A person out for a Sunday stroll in the woods could avoid some amount of brush, we could not.
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Man in another group I posted this same question is from south Texas area brushy like that.
Said it’s a pain going through that stuff with much of anything on a belt, especially if ya gotta start crawling, and was considering a shoulder rig.

I don’t like a blade covered in the woods anymore. Never know when might need it.
Bit off topic but worth sharing. Funny.
Few years back I was taking my wife deer hunting and we ran across a herd of hogs with a young boar.
I took the gun, Brand new box of shells, one right after the other shells failed to fire. I thought firing pin in gun broke until we gathered up the shells later and saw it was bad primers.

I’m standing there with a gun turned to a club, 😬 boar beginning it’s charge, 😳 dug out a short knife I had under my coveralls while yelling at her to run and climb a tree.
Wasn’t thinking I was gonna win but maybe give her time to get away. Talk about an adrenaline rush. 😂
Thank goodness it was a younger boar and my yell to her spooked it. Older boar wouldn’t have spooked so easily.
I still laugh: when all was said and done I turned around and she still standing 20 feet behind me. Looked her and she simply asked: “How am I supposed to climb a tree??” 😂🤣
I told her if one got past me and after her I bet she’d find a way. 😂
 
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Hashishiin said:
Wow... that must be very irritating. Can't stand littering. Going to buy myself one of those claw-trash-grabber things just to do something about it when I walk around. But, I'm still in an area where you can expect that kind of thing, I think if I was in nature, the anger would be multiplied. Good on you for getting the trash.
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This is what I found today and why I’d rather get scratched up than leave a trail.
Have to go back to clean it up. Didn’t have room for it.
And the pictures don’t show it all.
https://imgur.com/a/57pA8lM
 
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