Made my first knife rescue today.

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Shaggy8675

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After wearing knives for manny years, today i had my first real rescue.

The wife and i, toghether with our daughter and 2 dogs were walking in the woods this afternoon when we stumbled on to a woman in panic. After calming here down it turned out that her own dog was trapped in some sort of rope construction ( a man made trap for poching :mad: ) and she asked us iff we could help. Off course we help, iff we can.

The dog was stuck with his head and a leg, and the rope had already cut the poor dogs neck and leg. The owner calmed the dog, and i looked at what best to do. Together with the owner we laid down the dog and i pulled my brand new D'Allara. The owner was somewhat starteld about the "big" knife but also looked glad at the same time. After carefully cutting off the ropes from the dog. and removing the groundpin wich it was fixed to all seemed to be ok again :)

The dog's cuts weren't real bad and he was running around shortly after playing with our dogs hehe. She did go to the vets office to have him checked out.
She thanked us and we went our own way again.

Now that alone makes it worth carrieing a knife on you each day :)
 
A BIG :thumbup: for Shaggy! And saving a dog too... WAY TO GO SHAGGY!
 
korbiaka said:
Was the dog's name Scooby-Doo?:D
Nice work. A big :thumbup:
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ope, the dogs name was Spike ( Jack Russell ) But actually 1 off my dogs is called Scooby :) ( it's a Bouvier des Flandres ) haha
 
That is awesome!! Thanks for helping the woman and her dog!! Kudos to you!! I am so glad that you were there to help.
 
You never know what you will come across each and everyday. Good reason to always have a knife with you.
 
Great job! never know when your going to need a real knife.

I have 2 knife stories.

I lived in MT for some time. 3 of us where hunting during black powder season and my friend broke his ankle. We where in a walk in area only. We had walked for several hours early in the morning to get about where we wanted to go. There wasnt much chance of a ranger or game warder making it to where we were with a truck so we decided to carry him.

My friend carried a pretty big fixed blade (dont know what kind) and we cut 2 fairly long fresh tree limbs. We then made a sort of litter.

We sacrificed 2 belts and a backpack (his backpack) With my knife ( kershaw black gulch) we split our 2 leather belts in half and used them as ties at the four corners. We used his back pack as a seat. A then we carried his butt for what seem like forever.

Lesson learned: Out in the wilds strapping and a hatchet/big fixed blade are useful items to have.

Second story is that during rifle season in MT I (couple of years later) was in a accident out in the way off boonies. Ran into a car on a corner on a 1-1.5 lane dirt road.

My truck hit head long into their ford tempo and it veered off the edge of the road and rolled.

My friend and I go check on the 2 people in the other car and they are unconscious. I know enough not to move people, but his breathing had a gurgle in it. I decided to cut them out (they where hanging upside down from their seat belts) Again, the same Kershaw came out and cut the seat belts.

The seat belt had cut the mans spleen according the the ER doc and I did the best I could by moving him except for to have not gotten into an accident.

I retired the Kershaw soon after that accident. It sits in a back pack. Up till then the only reason I carried a knife was for hunting or outdoor activities. Now I carry one daily.

Thank God for other than claim shell packaging or the odd thing I haven't had to use it for anything important.
 
Great story. Good thing the lady didn't go all sheeple-status on you when you pulled out your knife.
 
Shaggy,Good deal man,way to go,cool little story,too!!
 
Glad to hear it. Knives save lives. Wether they be man or beast.


Glad to hear your using your blade for a good cause.

keep up the good work.
 
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