I keep losing my knives

This indicates you have spread too few around. I suggest liberally sprinkling more knives on convenient nearby surfaces, and consider that "losing" one may simply be a case of preparing a work site far in advance of beginning work.

More seriously, when I start losing things, it tells me I need to slow down and be more deliberate about what I'm doing. If I'm misplacing things, I may be (probably am) making other mistakes I'm not aware of.
 
The Grendels said:
The last time I lost a knife was the first time: a beautiful Buck folder that was in my KFS holder. The KFS holder blew off of my webbing, while pepper potting across the Prairies when I was 18. Since then, I've been a lot more careful with my kit and a lot less trusting of issued pouchies. Anything on the outside of my pouches/pack/pocket is going to have an additional means of attachment beyond the sheath.

I have a lot of knives and I could tell you with a lot of certainty where all of them are.
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Okay what the heck is pepper potting on the prairies?..Aside from an alliterative tour de force I mean.
 
In 2020 I lost my custom Haddock by Jens Ansø in the park walking my dog. There was a hole in my pocket I was not aware of and the knife had no clip...


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snuffle said:
This indicates you have spread too few around. I suggest liberally sprinkling more knives on convenient nearby surfaces, and consider that "losing" one may simply be a case of preparing a work site far in advance of beginning work.

More seriously, when I start losing things, it tells me I need to slow down and be more deliberate about what I'm doing. If I'm misplacing things, I may be (probably am) making other mistakes I'm not aware of.
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Well I was in car wreckage not too long ago and by some miracle went out without a schratch. Anyways it's not a good memory and I don't even mention it to people unless I have to. I still didn't even mention it to some of my friends.

My university has suffered after this, but I'm getting things back in order now, but now that I am getting that stuff back in order at university - I lost 3 knives and I often don't answer people's texts too. I mean I know I have to answer and I keep it in mind, I'm just not really doing it. I find myself just thinking about some random shit from time to time.

I'm better than before, just I still didn't fully return to my old performance.
 
Tezz said:
I know this is going to make many here CRINGE, but this is my solution. I take the clips off all my knives and flashlights and flatten just the tip with a hammer. I was getting the hook caught on everything and losing my knives. I’m a delivery driver, so picking up packages and maneuvering through doors all day. Good to go now.

It does make them a bit harder to get clipped on my pants, but not a big deal.

Hope this helps!

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This WE 037 has a recessed clip and no bend on the end. Haven't had any problems with it catching on anything.

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The Grendels said:
The KFS holder blew off of my webbing, while pepper potting across the Prairies when I was 18. Since then, I've been a lot more careful with my kit and a lot less trusting of issued pouchies. Anything on the outside of my pouches/pack/pocket is going to have an additional means of attachment beyond the sheath.
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Triton said:
Okay what the heck is pepper potting on the prairies?..Aside from an alliterative tour de force I mean.
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Triton Triton you can't tell me a perspicacious pre-planning person such as yourself has never gone pepper potting on the prairies with a plurality of proper, practical, precision products in your pouches/pack/pockets?
 
David Mary said:
Stolen by the dog! :oops:
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It was still in sheath and everything. I probably put it on ground as I was doing something and my dog happily carried it away.

She is large and sometimes even carries pieces of firewood or plants we pulled out of ground, I guess she found the knife interesting...
 
The worst I do is misplace a knife somewhere in my house. I'm pretty good a keeping track of my stuff, maybe because I have a system. At night all of my knives are put back in the same place. If I can't find one then, the search begins. It's usually in a pair of pants or shorts.
 
Boattale said:
Last time I lost a knife it was my Warhorse that I used to open bags of softener salt out in the wellhouse. Found it a few days later out there on a shelf. Have you looked in the wellhouse yet?
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Yeah, but something tells me those 2 are lost for good.
 
That happened to me a couple of years ago to a mini barrage. It was clipped to my pocket when I went out. Did some yard work and mowing on a zero turn rider. When I came in the house the knife was gone. I looked for it a lot and there was even a hobby metal detector person here this summer. But nothing.
EatingSarma said:
Yeah, but something tells me those 2 are lost for good
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I have lost so.....many knives.
Once pocket clips became common on knives, I stopped losing knives.
Usually now I put my knives in my right or left back pocket or cargo pocket of my pants.
Although if I set the knife down when working..........
 
Triton said:
Okay what the heck is pepper potting on the prairies?..Aside from an alliterative tour de force I mean.
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It's a fire and movement thing that I think was invented during the Boer War by the Boers. It's a zig zag dash and down (never directly zig back on a zag), while someone else is providing suppressing fire during an assault. It's an "Up, 2, 3, Down". If you're going for longer, undisciplined bounds than that you're probably going to be shot by any effective opposition, who will have a bead on you by then. You also do a random roll to come up from a different spot than you dropped, in case some wily individual has sights covering the spot you dropped to the ground. Slamming your body repeatedly against the ground can be hard on poorly made pouchies made by military vendors (see also lowest and/or most corrupt bidder).
 
AntDog said:
If I had lost 3 knives in short order I’d be more concerned about where my marbles were than my knives. Dude, that’s pretty extreme.
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Which is why I asked: who else has access?
 
Had a couple stolen when I was a teen but thus far have not lost one for good. Misplaced one for a couple of YEARS here at home (actually thought it had made it's way into the rubbish and been tossed out) and left a couple in the bush I was able to retrace my steps and find but none have to knife heaven.
 
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