Two-pocket carry anyone? L&R how?

fulloflead

fulloflead

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I think I'm wasting my left pocket since I'm right-handed with a knife and only keep a knife clipped to my right pocket.

It seems like such a waste! An empty pocket like that.
Besides, suppose my right hand is busy and I want to grab a knife with my left hand?

(Referse all this if you carry a knife in your left pocket.)

My best try at carrying a knife in my weak-hand pocket was carrying a Microtech Ultratech. It works mearly OK as a left carry, but I want more options.

Does anyone carry a knife in BOTH your left and right pockets?
If you're right-handed then what do you keep clipped to your left pocket?

How do you work it so you can draw, open and use easily from your left pocket with your weak hand? What kind of knives do you use for this?

I'd like to start a two-pocket carry and I'm looking for a method and a knife for my left/weak side that could be reasonably fast for my left/weak hand to draw, open and use from clipped to my left pocket.

I'm thinking some sort of auto or hole (Spyderco) opener that can be opened quickly with my less-dexterous hand.

Help me out. What works?
 
Originally posted by fulloflead
I'm looking for a method and a knife for my left/weak side that could be reasonably fast for my left/weak hand to draw, open and use from clipped to my left pocket.

I'm thinking some sort of auto or hole (Spyderco) opener that can be opened quickly with my less-dexterous hand.
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Good thinking. I'll pass along an idea I got from the Emerson forum. Clip a waved folder in your left front pocket, toward the front rather than the side seam. When you pull it out, it will come open in reverse grip!

Thinking in boxing terms, this gives you a regular folder in your right hand, perhaps in a saber grip, ready as if to power punch. Your left hand Emerson in reverse grip is your jab, backing your opponent away from your left, keeping him in range of your strong right hand.

It only takes a few minutes practice to get that Commander to pop open on your left, looking very ugly :D (Since it's for a jab, you could use a mini Commander just as successfully.)
 
I always have my primary folder in my front right pocket, but my front left pocket holds my Surefire E2e w/TID. I carry a backup folder in my left rear pocket.
 
Originally posted by Esav Benyamin
Good thinking. I'll pass along an idea I got from the Emerson forum. Clip a waved folder in your left front pocket, toward the front rather than the side seam. When you pull it out, it will come open in reverse grip!
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I've done this before and it IS rather cool and I loved the concept! But, realistically as far as day to day use, I don't want to carry a knife in the FRONT of my left pocket. I want to carry to the rear of the pocket so I can still dig out change or my little cell phone I carry there or what ever.
 
Dominant -- right handed

Carry Chinook or Tarani Journeyman or MT or another on the right front pocket [ RFP ].

Carry Endura or custom Elishewitz Titanium on the left front pocket [ LFP ]. The Elishewitz is a right handed linerlock and I developed a way to grab the knife so it comes out in normal grip as if it were a left sided knife. Not as fast on retrieval but certainly accessable when and if needed.

The Endura has had the clip reversed for left hand carry and so comes out naturally with no need to adjust anything for the draw. I no longer carry linerlocks so the Elishewitz now sits idle.

If I'm in stalk mode for work in certain areas I may be found with the Piorek quaiken which can be accessed either right or left side in the shoulder rig as well as another folder somewhere about.

It is an admirable quest to be able to carry duals and access them proficiently from either side when needed. Very few people I know can deploy and use one defensively from either side effectively. Those that can are advantaged in certain circumstances.

Wish you all the luck in your quest.

Brownie
 
Get a lefty Commander. Better yet get a Cuda Maxx and have Dirk set it up for lefty tip up carry. Spydercos can also be altered to for quick openings.
 
If you put a knife in your off hand pocket, where do you carry your Surefire flashlight? All pants should be made with at least 8 pockets something like carpenter pants. Just think of how many toys we could carry in all those different size pockets.
 
I carry a Scallion inside my front left cargo pocket.
The knife has been modified though.
It has custom Bakalite scales with clip remounted for
tip-up carry.
 
I carry 2 Spydercos; one in each front pocket. I'm left-handed, so I carry my "emergency" Police model in my left pocket (I'm left-handed), and I carry my "utility" Delica in my right pocket.
 
Originally posted by brownie0486
It is an admirable quest to be able to carry duals and access them proficiently from either side when needed. Very few people I know can deploy and use one defensively from either side effectively. Those that can are advantaged in certain circumstances.
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That's what I was thinking. So far, the lefti Commander sounds best... so far.

Those Tactical pants are WAY cool! The shirt is pretty cool too. I GOTTA get me some of those. I'm going to need a strong belt with all that I'm going to be putting in the pockets!:D
 
i used to carry a second knife in my left front pocket ( i am right handed ) but found out that, as a creature of habit i always put my change in my left pocket. When opening my knife i always made projectiles out of 20 or 30 cents in change. I going to try a fixed blade near the small of my back to be deployed by the left hand and have my normal carry in my right pocket. Also going to try carying in my left back pocket but im afraid back pockets are not as good at holding things as front pockets and it would be easier for someone to nab my knife without me knowing or for me just to loose it.
 
In cargo pants or shorts I keep both on the right side...right now an SnG is in the lower pocket and a CRKT M-16 LE is in the upper one.
 
Originally posted by fulloflead
I'm going to need a strong belt with all that I'm going to be putting in the pockets!:D
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I've been wearing an Instructor Belt from The Wilderness for several years. Mine is the Combat Shooter's Model, but I suspect the 5-Stitch version would do just as well.

These belts are terrific for anyone who carries gear on their belt. I generally have a pair of multi-tools, a handgun, and a pair of magazines on mine. The Instructor Belt keeps everything firmly where it belong while remaining comfortable.

I also wear Royal Robbins 5.11 Pants and usually wear their 5.11 Vest too. Lots of pockets! :D

--Bob Q
 
I always carry a knife on my left (weak) side as well as my strong. I have several knives that can be easily adjusted for full left-hand use, such as the Benchmade 940 and the Spyderco Native. They made the draw and presentation simple, just a mirror of what I do with my right hand.

Lately I have been experimenting with right-handed knives in my left pocket. The two I carry there most often are the Camillus Maxx Bowie or the Camillus Aftermath. I have come up with a fairly simple draw and presentation technique that works nicely for tip-down knives with flippers.

The Aftermath is a little easier, because of the ROBO mechanism, but both work. (My Kershaw Boa also draws very well with the same trick.) Adapting to a thumb hole or stud is not too difficult either.

Practicing a "combat draw" with both hands has obvious benefits, although I do that mostly for fun. ;) I will say that the left-handed draw is often handy for utility situations.

--Bob Q
 
"They made the draw and presentation simple, just a mirror of what I do with my right hand."

Although it's not the same challenge ... I used to work with several deaf-mutes, and a few of us learned the manual alphabet to speak, even so rudimentarily, with them. One of our group learned to do the alphabet with both hands -- but he did the left-handed version in mirror image, and the deaf-mutes used to laugh when he signed to them "in stereo". :D
 
My right pocket is where I keep my Kershaw Talon, which is my defensive folder. My left pocket has a waved Spyderco Endura in it. Its a great left hand knife. Because the hole is still mostly there its really easy to access with my less coordinated left-thumb (as I am right hand dominate), and just "grab & pull" draw engages the "tsunami" mod, and it pops right out really nicely.
Get an Endura and a dremel, one great left hand/weak side knife coming up :D
 
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