practical fast draw for fixed blade

This is another configuration of a similar sheath but it is set up for right hand draw scout carry with snap off loops. Chestnut W&C with black shark trim. It's home to a Jason Knight fighter.

Paul
 
This is me and the fixed-blade/sheath combo I carry every day, and have done so for several years. I made it myself out of thick cowhide (3/16th" thick), held together with screws and posts. Nothing fancy, just functional and durable.

The upper part of the sheath (belt loop) is made of two pieces of very stiff leather so the sheath doesn't pull up with the knife when I draw it. The sheath holds the knife tightly enough to prevent it from bouncing around or popping out, but loose enough that a firm tug on the knife will clear it from the sheath. I can adjust the tightness of the sheath on the knife by adding or subtracting thin leather spacers where the screws are.

I live in California, where the concealed carry of fixed-blades is illegal. So I designed my sheath specifically to hang below my jacket (I ride a motorcycle everyday, so I wear a jacket every day).

To the OP, what knife are you carrying? Perhaps there are aftermarket sheaths that people can recommend that might work for you.

Aside from that, did I time-warp back to junior high school? What's with all the "I can draw my knife faster than you can draw yours" nonsense :rolleyes:. I imagine a 14 year old practicing their knife draw in a mirror.

I don't get into "quick-draw" knife fights, so being the fastest draw with a knife isn't really my concern.

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Check out 710 sheaths. This is kydex with a leather wrapping for my BK 15 . It's a leather dangler attachment and it sits the knife right where my hand naturally hangs. Hangs below an untucked shirt. Easy draw, easy resheath.

 
Newbie here and my first post. Hope I'm not out of line offering a suggestion on an old post when I'm wholly unqualified, but since nobody else has mentioned technique I ask this...
Isn't the key here having a sheath that allows you to wrap your fingers around the handle, and then using your thumb, push the sheath away from the knife to release it?

My wife has a small fixed blade in her purse. It has a zytel sheath that the knife locks into. The sheath is clipped to a pocket inside the purse. It keeps the knife in place and not flopping around in there, but if you just grabbed the handle and yanked... the sheath would come with it. I had her practice when I gave it to her, specifically how to grab the knife and using the thumb technique, easily free it using one hand. She now can easily reach in her purse and bring it out as second nature.

In her situation, I am confident it is a superior solution than a folder would be. She can reach into her purse without looking and bring her hand out with the pointy end ready, quicker than you can blink. Hopefully she never needs it.

Have I missed something? Isn't technique the key? It seems like if your sheath allows you to use a "thumb release" technique, your sheath could be dangling from a string and you can still draw quickly with one hand without bringing the sheath with the knife.
 
Just curious about the need for a "quick draw", "fast draw". Are we talking somebody snuck up on you and you need to get your knife out fast? Or is this a "how fast you can pull and throw"?
 
No one should throw away a perfectly good knife.

wish I could remember who that is quoted from... :p
 
Last time I did that it didnt come over quite as well as I had envisioned.

another one I need to know who said it..... :p
 
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