How Sharp is the knife in your PSK???(Very graphic)!!!!!

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cmgray

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UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!!!!!!!
As promised I have just posted the most recent pictures of my injures. These pictures are almost 4 weeks after the accident. Here it is, not quite as graphic.

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So, how sharp is the knife in your PSK???? Yesterday I found out the hard way. While in the backyard of our home, I was practicing some wilderness skills, with my favorite bushcraft rig, my Bravo 1 (a.k.a. the suspect)
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After greasing a couple of cottonballs with some Vaseline. I stripped a few dead branches for some pencil sized kindling. Successfully I got a fire going on the third attempt. Proud of my accomplishments, I though I would cut a few bigger pieces to keep the fire going. I picked up an inch and a half thick branch that was too long, so I thought I would cut it in two. I took a good swing at the thick branch with my Bravo 1. It sliced through the branch, unexpectedly like butter. Oh and right into my leg too. THIS IS WHERE IT GETS GRAPHIC.

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After a two hour trip to the ER, 14 stitches, and my pride hurt, Im at home resting comfortably. My calf feels like I was hit with a lead pipe. So how sharp is my PSK knife of choice?? Turns out VERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian this is probably the wrong place to post this thread, but it does have to do with wilderness skills. And how good is a story if you cant share it with a great bunch of guys. :o
 
I'm glad that you are OK and did not injure yourself beyond repair!

The pics are awesome BTW! :D :thumbup: -Matt-
 
Glad you made it out okay and just goes to show how easy this kind of thing can happen. At the very least, you did this with only a 4" knife. I've read that this is a common injury due to the unexpected "draw cut" that occurs when people use heavy choppers like Kukris and sword like Parangs & Goloks. Hatchets also have a way of travelling into your shin bone after a miss.

I would like to hear how you extracted yourself out of the woods to civilization. Did you have somebody with you to help? How did you control the bleeding (what worked and what didn't?). Did you wash the wound out on site?

Last - I think this was a very appropriate place for this post. Serves a good reminder to all of us - thanks.
 
Fortunately. I was just in my backyard. My wife and I have a couple acres. To control the bleeding I used what I had on. I wrapped the wound in the jeans I was wearing. I hollered at my neighbor who got my wife and then she drove me too the hospital. Over the jeans I wrapped a towel around my leg. Remember dont pull off any dressing just keep adding to it if you bleed through one
 
"Hang on doc, slow down, I need to get some pictures for the guys on the 'net.
Think you could pry it open a bit more?"

LOL

Glad you're OK.
 
Wow, thats a deep one - good post to put things into perspective. How even a man knowing what he's doing can get himself injured pretty badly. Imagine if you had been in a survival situation and this had happened - Or out for a weekend camping trip and the cut TURNED it into a survival situation - yeesh. Thats one of the reasons I tend to stay away from larger knives - especially for chopping duties. Even if you are careful its easy to slip since they are a good bit harder to control and can be a GREAT deal sharper than a well used hatchet(what I tend to use for chopping).

Definitely a reminder to us all to stay aware and concentrated as possible while practicing our bushcraft.

And to the poster who said 'you only make that kind of mistake once!', BULLOCKS! give if a few years =)

Happy easter CMgray - don't let your pride get too hurt, we all do this from time to time. I did something like this to my hand(you could see the spongy tissue and spread it apart and everything) this winter trying to get cute and pry a lid off of something with a large kitchen knife(it was Halloween too so I had a few drinks in me, to compound the problem). We all get a little absent minded from time to time - Large knives are definitely something to respect.
 
Yo! That had to hurt! Steel meets flesh, steel wins every time. A good graphic reminder serves us all well. Mac
 
Thanks guys. I did get a prescription for Darvocet. Which is helping with the pride/pain. LOL. Cut all the way down to the muscle facia (sheath) surrounding the muscle
 
It doesn't take very much to chop through meat, and whenever I swing my choppers on the stuborn boreal forest underbrush I always concentrate and pay attention to where the blade is at all times. It could mean life or death, or if I'm lucky only a hospital visit.
 
cmgray,

I have many scars on my body that would make you think I was an old knife fighter. I could invent many stories for them, but the only ones that are true are: "OW! I did it to myself again!!!!" I call them the "Knifenut Tattoos." :thumbup:

Sorry for your pain, and congrats on your hard-won trophy. ;) It really is better than a tattoo, I say! :D
 
Ouch, that must have stung like the Devil! :eek: Real good that it didn't happen somewhere far out in the woods. One has to be careful when chopping things up, or things will turn bloody real quick.

Cpl Punishment said:
"Hang on doc, slow down, I need to get some pictures for the guys on the 'net.
Think you could pry it open a bit more?"
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Yeah, that's what I thought. That's how you know a knife nut - they're real proud about their scars! :D :thumbup:
 
JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH!

*faint* :eek:


Best of luck in your recovery

Ron LaBella
 
Dang, that must have stung a bit :D Glad it didn't nick an artery.

Thanks for the reminder to always stand well clear of ones own swinging blade!
 
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