Real life use of Endura.

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No, not a knife fight, but I was working, and we had a hostage situation with criminal wanted for several counts of murder and two counts of kidnapping. I am not one of the SWAT dudes, but as the SWAT team was staging I was asked to leave my two officer perimeter postion and disable the vehicle. The hardest part was belly crawling along the fist and grapefruit sized rocks. I after crawling to the truck (the truck was 15 yards from the suspect's window, facing the window). I tried to cut the valve stems, but then I found out the tires on the 2001 Ford pickup had small metal inserts in the valve stems to protect against such petty vandalism. So I went through the sidewalls of the two pass side tires, and when I realized that taking out the driver's side would put me directly in the line of fire I cut the rear tire in the driver's side from under the truck. As the tires deflated I found that the dropping truck and the fact that I had to crawl over a parking block conspired to defeat me. My duty belt hung up on the parking block and the truck's bumper. I had to pull out, tearing my tape recorder pouch.

The endura held up well, but the steel belts ate the edge. I had my SE Sifu and my 800HSS with me, but both of those have expensive finishes that cannot be replaced, so the workhorse it was.

pat
 
Hey there,

Very cool story. I also use an Endura on duty, and it has really been abused. Probabley the most folding tactical knife for the money today.

take care,

Dave
 
Just curious...What type was it? SS, Zytel and what blade configuration...?
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Zytel, one if the older, intregal clip ones with a serrated G-2 blade.

pat
 
That's a real classic one dude! Glad the Endura served you well!
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Sam

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My Endura has been heavily abused as part of my LEO equipment. Ours is the last year they were made with the intregal clip. RKBA!
 
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