Has anyone actually been in a real life "survival" situation? If so what knife did you have and how did it work?

I like to cut my bacon in half before frying it.
There’s been several times that I had to hurry and get breakfast going…otherwise I might have expired.
Thank goodness for a sharp kitchen knife.
 
Starts reasonably well with knives in survival situations... climaxes with AFishHunter shooting a robber to death... Lee D brings it home with bacon.
There were some really good contributions there in the middle somewhere, but that's not what I'm walking away with.

"I don't know what it's called... I just know the sound it makes when it take's a man's life." - Fourleaf Tayback, possible BF contributor.
 
EngrSorenson said:
Starts reasonably well with knives in survival situations... climaxes with AFishHunter shooting a robber to death... Lee D brings it home with bacon.
There were some really good contributions there in the middle somewhere, but that's not what I'm walking away with.

"I don't know what it's called... I just know the sound it makes when it take's a man's life." - Fourleaf Tayback, possible BF contributor.
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At least I had a knife. Luckily it slipped into a fold in the beach towel and the wino that stole my $200 or so that was in my wallet didn't see it. But he left my wallet there, so I was grateful about that.
 
Stickgunner said:
I was just about to post that I love happy endings when I saw your post and had to laugh.

Regarding having to shoot someone, I don't think that for most people it is as bad as you think if someone is actively trying to kill you. Its a different deal with having to kill people for other reasons, but a guy trying to stab you, or a guy shooting at you, and I think most sleep well at night. If its someone going for a gun, or knife, or other terrible things you see in war or as a cop, I believe its different. Then again, it is different for each person. Its actually something I teach a course on for our recruits. In no way am I diminishing PTSD for the guys who have had to drop the hammer on someone and have problems with it. Each of us is unique, and my heart goes out to them. For me, if I see faces its the children that have died while I've held them and similar things.

Sorry for the thread derailment.
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I hope you are right and I pray most of us never have to find out.

I am glad it was the bad guy that lost the argument. A little more of that and we might see less stupid in this country.
 
Stickgunner said:
Much better to do it that way. Fist fights typically aren't a big deal to most cops unless one person goes seriously overboard. Pull a knife on someone, and you are looking (usually) at deadly force options for cops or civilians. Pull a knife up close and personal, and if the cops are called you have a much higher possibility of going to jail.

I've pulled a knife twice in confrontations. Once was a guy who had two large GSD. He was up on his roof and thought it was funny watching his dogs come after me. I pulled a Kukri out that I had on my side with the assumption that I was going to get bit pretty bad, but that I was going to kill the dogs (which I hate because I have always owned GSD). The guy no longer found it funny once the Kukri came out, and began frantically screaming at his dogs.

The second time was coming out of a lounge with my wife and another couple at night. We walked towards our vehicles, and I saw 5 or so guys who were at the front of an all night convenience store, 3 sitting and 2 standing. The two standing guys saw us, and must have figured us for an easy mark. They said something, and all of the guys sitting down turned and looked at us, then got up slowly and started to drift our way. We were about a half a block away, and I pulled my knife, and kept turning it back and forth the same way that you would use a signal mirror. They stopped, turned around, and went back to their previous positions by the store. I never would have used the knife for defense, if things had gotten to the level of fearing for our lives, I would have shot them.

On a side note, if you ever deal with homeless people, the majority of them keep flathead screwdrivers on their person for defense. A sharpened flathead screwdriver is a wicked thing to get slashed or stabbed with, especially if you see what the tips usually look like. The reason they use a screwdriver instead of a knife is that a knife is more valuable and cops are more apt to hassle them for illegal weapons. A screwdriver is a just a tool....

That little revolver you just got is a great weapon, make sure you get a good holster for it.
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I find that most who judge haven't been in some situations, so I don't judge. I've been in human and dog situations, where I was glad that I had more than just my bad breath as back up. I'm also glad that I didn't have to use. But twice as glad that I had a chance for defense, particularly with a family member near by.
 
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