Lost my knife

Hickory n steel

Hickory n steel

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Sometime today I lost my beloved camo Victorinox classic sent to me by Gary.
I do believe I lost the knife around the house somehow, but I really can't be positive when I last used it and there's a slight chance it fell out of my pocket at the library earlier but I seem to remember having used it at home since then.

It will probably turn up at some point I hope, but I looked for a good 25 minutes and came up with nothing.
 
Hate it when that happens. There's a good chance it will show up in some unexpected place at an unexpected time. I found one once between the seats of the truck so don't give up hope. Hope good luck comes into your corner and knocks the crap out of that gremlin.
 
You guys aren't going to believe this.

I was looking all over the place, high and low for it.
With all that looking and worrying on this warm humid rainy evening I worked up a bit of a sweat so I grabbed my handkerchief from my back pocket to wipe my forehead and I felt it when I was putting my handkerchief back.

The clouds opened up like crazy while I was in the library and I got soaked on the way home, so best as I can figure is it was laying on the handkerchief when I did a pocket dump to change into some dry close and it went with it into my back pocket.
I assumed it went into my left front pocket as usual and had fallen out, so no way I would checked my back pocket or felt it in there otherwise and it would have inevitably gotten it's scales melted in the dryer.


If this is what it feels like to have a beloved knife missing for an hour then I can only imagine what it's like to have one gone for a substantial amount of time.

I hope nobody else looses a knife, it sucks even when it works out no matter how quickly.
 
That’s awesome right there! I just did something similar with some earbuds I use for hunting.
Got home from a trip to the lease and started emptying bags and couldn’t find them to remove the batteries. Looked through all my bags. Figured I left them at the lease. No big deal except I had a bird hunt lined up at another lease the following weekend.
Found another pair online for a good price, ordered them.
Bird hunt got canceled due to weather (been raining a lot in south and east Texas), oh well I have a backup in case I’m wrong and they aren’t at the lease or the batteries stay in too long and damage them.
Then Sunday morning getting ready for a family walk I get into the safe to remove a holster from my holster pile.... there are my original ear buds sitting entangled in my over the shoulder hunting holster. When emptying my bag full of extra knives, field sharpening kit, holsters, etc.. they came out with that holster.
 
5K Qs said:
Glad it turned up, Hickory n steel Hickory n steel ! :thumbsup::cool::thumbsup::)
A problem with camo knives is they're designed to be hard to find if you lose them in the wrong environment! ;):p
But you have a brightly-colored fob on yours, I think, right? :cool::thumbsup:

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Yep, blaze orange because this is definitely one knife I don't want to loose.

It's crazy the kinds of things that run through your head.
Did it somehow end up in the garbage that I already took out to the street, did if fall in the dogs bown when I fed her and end up getting eaten, maybe it somehow ended up getting flushed.

All of these crazy possibilities go through your head even though you know it's probably something more logical that happened.
 
When I got home from work yesterday I got out of my car, walked to the mail box and as I was walking to the front door I noticed my SAK Cadet laying in the yard! Must've fell out of my pocket when I took my keys out that morning. DOH! Kind of glad I didn't notice it was missing during the day yesterday, I would've felt like Hickory n steel Hickory n steel did :confused:

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veitsi_poika said:
When I got home from work yesterday I got out of my car, walked to the mail box and as I was walking to the front door I noticed my SAK Cadet laying in the yard! Must've fell out of my pocket when I took my keys out that morning. DOH! Kind of glad I didn't notice it was missing during the day yesterday, I would've felt like Hickory n steel Hickory n steel did :confused:

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I used to often find one of my knife ves laying on the couch before I knew it was missing, glad you found it before you knew it was gone.
I would have been searching all day for my knife had it not been the end of the day before I knew it was missing.
 
Not knife related, just telling to illustrate how we can absent mindedly do things. I once lost my glasses, in the house, knowing I hadn't been outside. I recently started wearing contacts, but from age 14 until 4 months ago same routine. Get up get dressed, put on glasses, wear until I undress that evening. As I'm near sighted I usually read or do things like tread a needle without them, I see better up close without them on. Always I always put them in the same spot at home, on the nightstand. Anytime I slept anywhere else I.E camping, glasses and wallet goes in my boot( so they won't be misplaced or damaged) so you can understand why I was extremely puzzled. I even emptied the garbage can. I ended up giving up. Awhile later I found them, in the fridge :confused:. I remembered as soon as I seen them, I had taken them off and absent mindedly set them down in the fridge, to read fine print on a label of sauce.:p Lost items usually turn up in the last place we'd think of, because we wasn't THINKING when we put it there
 
veitsi_poika said:
When I got home from work yesterday I got out of my car, walked to the mail box and as I was walking to the front door I noticed my SAK Cadet laying in the yard! Must've fell out of my pocket when I took my keys out that morning. DOH! Kind of glad I didn't notice it was missing during the day yesterday, I would've felt like Hickory n steel Hickory n steel did :confused:

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Philosophical question:
Was it really missing if you never new it was gone?
Kinda like the tree falling in the forest.
 
Hickory n steel said:
If this is what it feels like to have a beloved knife missing for an hour then I can only imagine what it's like to have one gone for a substantial amount of time.
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20+ years ago I was working QC in a meat further processing plant. My main carry knife was a 70’s era Case 6445R Scout Knife. I lost that knife. I looked everywhere. Home, car, work...nothing.

One of my duties on that QC job was to assist with monthly inventory. During inventory, about a year after that knife went missing, we were counting casings in our dry storage area. I dug down into a large cardboard box of bologna casings and found my knife. I was shocked and thrilled all at once.

Think of it. We were in a warehouse full of big shipping containers of packaging materials. Our employees are in there every day pulling needed materials for their jobs, replacing excess pieces at shift end, stocking newly arrived materials and tossing empty cartons.

Every work day...for a year.

And all that time I was racking my brain trying to figure out what ever happened to my blade. A knife I had all through school and the first 8 to 10 years of professional work. All this time later I still can’t believe I ever found it.
 
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