I am a long time knife carrier. Currently a mini AFCK or a BM Sentinel for everyday use. Also keep a fixed blade in each car and carry a CS Recon Tanto when in the woods on extended trips. I constantly find uses for my knives, but, can't say decisively that a knife ever saved my life. Would like to hear other peoples experiences.
Has Your Blade Ever Saved Your Life?
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I was fishing below a dam when they started releasing a lot of water. I was in a small john boat with a small motor so I pulled up anchor and moved downstream to where the water was a little slower. Throwing out the anchor that was tied to the front of the boat before the boat got turned and was pointing upstream, was a mistake. The rope got caught in the prop and as I tried to untangle it, the water started coming over the back of the boat. I cut the rope as quickly as I could and we didn't sink or lose everything we had. I can figure out what might have happened, but it didn't and I'm always thankful that I keep a sharp knife. Ray Kirk
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I don't know if there was ever a time I would have died were it not for a knife, but I know they have come in handy on more than one occasion and I'd have been hard pressed to come up with an alternative.
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I remember an occasion when I was in my early twenties. I had been out and about closing down the bars in NYC's Greenwich Village area(as was my wont at the time).
(Anybody remember the Kettle of Fish?)
I was crossing Washington Square Park heading toward where I had left my car parked earlier in the evening.
I heard steps behind me approaching in a manner not consistent with someone "just out for a walk". (Closing a bit too quickly.)
I took the cheap p.o.s. knife I had with me at the time out of my pocket and opened it, making sure that the "flash" of the blade was visible under a nearby lamppost.
The person following me made a sharp detour and headed the other way. Confrontation avoided. I didn't represent an easy mark any longer.
Submitted fwiw.
Blues
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(Anybody remember the Kettle of Fish?)
I was crossing Washington Square Park heading toward where I had left my car parked earlier in the evening.
I heard steps behind me approaching in a manner not consistent with someone "just out for a walk". (Closing a bit too quickly.)
I took the cheap p.o.s. knife I had with me at the time out of my pocket and opened it, making sure that the "flash" of the blade was visible under a nearby lamppost.
The person following me made a sharp detour and headed the other way. Confrontation avoided. I didn't represent an easy mark any longer.
Submitted fwiw.
Blues
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No, but the people that know me and the ones who know and see the pocket clips in three different pockets are wary enough not to try.
Never really put myself in a position of danger unless I'm wearing a gun (either on duty or off). Is that a false sense of confidence or just stupidity?
Really, just being observant of the surroundings and keeping out of the danger zone makes more sense than not.
But, keeping prepared sure doesn't hurt anything (or anyone, if we're lucky).
Ed
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Never really put myself in a position of danger unless I'm wearing a gun (either on duty or off). Is that a false sense of confidence or just stupidity?
Really, just being observant of the surroundings and keeping out of the danger zone makes more sense than not.
But, keeping prepared sure doesn't hurt anything (or anyone, if we're lucky).
Ed
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I am sure that more then a few times having a knife visible in my hand or clipped onto a pocket has detracted those interested in conflict. But, I have had to use a knife on two occasions to preserve myself against what seemed on be legitimate dangers. One was typical, I am sure you can marginally imagine what happened to a certain degree of exactness without me telling the story, because I do not want to, but the other was quite strange... I released an automatic into a guys face (who was about to attack me) so the recoil made the blunt back of the blade hit him in the nose; Knocked him out like a light and no one was seriously hurt, or liable (because I got the hell out of there).
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if you really want to know then try lookin' in the back of the next issue of tactical Knives they have a section called "it happened to me " that I think just might satisfy your curiosity .
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I am a nobody most of the time and a sombody none of the time . and I am proud of it .
Fenris,
It was actually a Boker Speedlock. The recoil wasn't terribly magnificent, but the blade thickness and the fact has literally ran into the thing when I opened it made him fall to the ground with a fantastic SMACK. Thank god his nose wasn't broken from the entire ordeal, I don't think.
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It was actually a Boker Speedlock. The recoil wasn't terribly magnificent, but the blade thickness and the fact has literally ran into the thing when I opened it made him fall to the ground with a fantastic SMACK. Thank god his nose wasn't broken from the entire ordeal, I don't think.
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Saving my life is a stretch. Saved me from some serious inconvenience is another matter. Back when the best backwoods knife I owned was a plain ol' Kabar USMC I used it to hack a pine bough shelter after getting caught in an early October snowstorm during a hunt in the Eagle Cap Wilderness of Eastern Oregon. Applying the rules of threes, needing that shelter for about four hours with a small fire, if not a life saver, was an energy conserver for making it back in a timely fashion in 6-8 inches of snow. Having the shelter allowed me a relatively warm spot for getting my bearings with a compass on the topo map as all the earlier landmarks were obliterated on that as-then unfamiliar terrain.