practicality of an auto in a surviaval situation.

MAURICE

MAURICE

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sure they're fun,the high end ones are durable,but how do they compare to a regular folder (or fixed blade)in a survival/outdoor situation? does the fact that it has more moving parts make it imoractical?well,lets hear it!TIA-Maurice
 
My only experience with automatics was when I was a kid in the '70s I carried 2 POS switchblades for self-defense, a medium-sized one and a very large one, both with stiletto blades.

Thankfully I never needed one in either self-defense nor any other life-saving emergency situation (mine or others). Besides the blades being as sharp as butterknives, the larger one one day stuck closed, and thereafter I could never even force it back open. The smaller one still works, but has considerable blade play...probably from a combination of poor quality to start with, plus the constant force of being snapped open.

I know there are MUCH higher-quality offerings in automatics now, but the same principle IMO still applies: If there are more things to go wrong with something, they will. As tools, there is no advantage an automatic has over any manual one-hand folder, or in the wilderness a fixed blade.
Jim
 
It is sort of like most tactical teams that need shotguns use pumps. If you need it and the mechanism jams; hope that you can get close enough to use it like a club, or throw it as them

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