Lucky to still be alive !!!

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pitdog

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I was just reading a discussion about neck knives on another forum and the inevitable " Never wear paracord round your neck unless it's gutted and fitted with a break-away chain........etc " came up.

So I'm thinking that I must be one lucky son of a bitch to have survived all these years wearing mine !

While I'm no Bear Grylls I'm sure everyone on here knows that I get out and about as much as any other members and also do my fair share of bushwacking and yet I have never got my paracord caught up !!!

Has anyone actually choked themselves on paracord here and lived to tell the tell ?

I'm sure this will be my last post as I've probably jinxed myself and I'm heading off out shortly with paracord round my neck and wrist....wish me luck !:eek:
 
I'm still alive too.
Never had a problem with my Izula hanging from my neck with paracord.
 
some people just want to be as safe as possible, i guess if you fell down a hill or cliff or the like. i personally do not like the idea that someone can grab it and choke you with it.
 
I've never done it with para cord, but I've caught my bibs on all kinds of stuff climbing around on boats. At work it's mostly just annoying, but I could see how it might be a problem in the woods. I don't ever carry a neck knife so it's not a problem for me, but I see how it might be for some one.
 
The chances of the cord catching on something at an inopportune moment are probably slim, but if the paracord does catch on something at a critical moment, you could be done.

Years ago when I was climbing at the UofC wall, I had clipped into the rope with a locking D carabiner, but one with a springloaded collar. Because I was clipping/unclipping so often, I opted out of using the normal screw gate. I mean the likelihood of the spring loaded collar coming undone was negligible right? Wrong. I was climbing on the large overhang and had just got one arm and one leg over the overhang (sort of looks like an apartment balconey). I was totally gassed. I happened to look down at my waist and noticed that as I was going over the ledge, the collar had dragged along the ledge which rotated it open. As soon as the collar rotated, the gate came open. There was the carabiner wide open with the rope just barely hooked on to it. It ran my blood cold let me tell you. I threw out that carabiner and never compromised my climbing safety again.

Stay safe!

Hugh
 
IMO there's a smart way to go about it. If you're walking down a trail or even exploring an area of flat ground then no worries. If you're climbing down/up a hill or going over uneven terrain, stick the knife in your pack/pocket. To me that only makes sense. To be honest my biggest fear isn't strangling myself from a fall, it's having some tweeker meth head using my own cord to choke me or control my head and neck because I stumbled across their "lab."
 
I've never had an issue, but I don't go climbing anywhere that could really choke me. I live where it is flat, and only visit places that could possibly choke me 2-4 times a year.
 
mrdavidross321 said:
. . . i personally do not like the idea that someone can grab it and choke you with it.
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I agree ! Never give the bad guys a handle. Also, neck knives get in the way when I bend over or lean forward. I've adopted the "Brazilian Carry" - over one shoulder and under the opposite arm. This allows me to carry the knife as a neck knife when I want, carry it horizontally at my waist, or safely behind my back if necessary - all with a quick/easy adjustment.
 
Just because you don't know anyone it has happened to doesn't make it a good idea.
 
TUF said:
Just because you don't know anyone it has happened to doesn't make it a good idea.
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Quite right but it's just one of the little things that bugs me when it gets bought up. The people throw it out there as if anyone that does have paracord round their neck is an absolute retard for doing so and is likely to get hung up and die at any moment !
Some people just take the high moral ground without actually thinking what dangerous activities they engage in, smoking, talking on the cell phone while driving, unprotected sex...the list goes on and all more likely to catch up with them far quicker than my whistle and compass on my paracord !
 
I would never and will never wear anything around my neck. It's always fun to bag on things that we think will never happen to us, until they do. I have seen guys in prison kill themselves with shoestrings, I have also seen trained professionals shoot themselves in the foot while bringing a Mossberg 590 to the ready. Never say never.
 
I wear stuff around my neck. I thought I had a good tip to share but Tango Alfa Sierra beat me to it.... I sometimes wear a knife on a cord around my neck, but instead of having it just around my neck I put my left arm through the loop as well so the knife hangs at my side under my arm. I didn't know there was a name for this, but now I can refer to it as Brazilian carry (if I'd just heard that name without an explanation I might have assumed the knife was jammed down the front of my undies :foot:).

One thing I wear around my neck sometimes is a cord holding a Marbles bird and trout knife, a small firesteel, and my car keys. If I am boating or hiking in the bush I don't want to risk losing my keys by having them fall out of my pocket, and I figure that seeing I have something around my neck anyway I may as well add the other items. The cord I use is fairly thin braided nylon which theoretically has a breaking strain of less than my body weight.

I am aware that having a strong cord around my neck could be dangerous, so I guess if I were in a particularly vulnerable situation I could remove it. But it could also be said that a shirt or jacket could get us caught up and trapped as well (but maybe not as readily strangled).

I've never had any physical violence inflicted on me since I was a kid, and I don't particularly fear an attacker grabbing my neck tie (never really wear one) or my knife lanyard. I'm thinking that if some dude was to do this, he probably didn't have a weapon because he would have deployed it already and he couldn't hold both my arms and legs at the same time. So with a free hand or knee I could crunch his goolies or maybe even slide a blade into his soft bits :)

Sometimes somebody writes something on the 'net and it becomes widespread gospel. In practice I think that carrying something on a cord around your neck can be a good solution. But it does pay to think about the risks in any situation.
 
I've had knives fall out of sheaths held the right direction a couple of times, shouldn't you be more afraid of the piece of sharp steel positioned 12" above your giblets held in place only by friction?
 
coote said:
I wear stuff around my neck. I thought I had a good tip to share but Tango Alfa Sierra beat me to it.... I sometimes wear a knife on a cord around my neck, but instead of having it just around my neck I put my left arm through the loop as well so the knife hangs at my side under my arm. I didn't know there was a name for this, but now I can refer to it as Brazilian carry (if I'd just heard that name without an explanation I might have assumed the knife was jammed down the front of my undies :foot:).

One thing I wear around my neck sometimes is a cord holding a Marbles bird and trout knife, a small firesteel, and my car keys. If I am boating or hiking in the bush I don't want to risk losing my keys by having them fall out of my pocket, and I figure that seeing I have something around my neck anyway I may as well add the other items. The cord I use is fairly thin braided nylon which theoretically has a breaking strain of less than my body weight.

I am aware that having a strong cord around my neck could be dangerous, so I guess if I were in a particularly vulnerable situation I could remove it. But it could also be said that a shirt or jacket could get us caught up and trapped as well (but maybe not as readily strangled).

I've never had any physical violence inflicted on me since I was a kid, and I don't particularly fear an attacker grabbing my neck tie (never really wear one) or my knife lanyard. I'm thinking that if some dude was to do this, he probably didn't have a weapon because he would have deployed it already and he couldn't hold both my arms and legs at the same time. So with a free hand or knee I could crunch his goolies or maybe even slide a blade into his soft bits :)

Sometimes somebody writes something on the 'net and it becomes widespread gospel. In practice I think that carrying something on a cord around your neck can be a good solution. But it does pay to think about the risks in any situation.
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Great reply buddy, very logical and well put !

I only started the post because I was tired and cranky this morning when I read the post about neck knives. Someone had asked about suitable knives for neck carry and a guy chips in with the ' Never put paracord round ya neck ! ' it pi##ed me off because the kid wasn't asking about cordage he was asking about knives !
 
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