Walked into a super market yesterday...

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with a custom 4" fixed blade on my hip. Just came back from fishing and walked in forgetting about it. When i realized i figured i'd be escorted outside or something lol, but nobody said anything. I don't know if they didn't notice or what, it was legal size, but i felt like i was breaking the law. Now, with a folder it's concealed i dont think twice. Now they got me second guessin!
 
i think in these days, when nearly everyone has a cell phone on their belt, its easier not to notice stuff like that. glad no one did a freak out on you!
 
I've done that several times :p been fishing or just woods bumming around & make a stop on my way to or from & forget it's on my belt. No one has ever said anything yet:D
 
During hunting season around here I see guys walking around with fixed blades the size of Kabars on their belts and nobody ever questions anyone about it.
 
I saw this guy in a cowboy hat and boots the other week with a moderately sized fixed blade on his belt. Keep in mind this is the suburbs of Philadelphia, so cowboys and knives are kind of a rare sight.
 
Last summer I was going pig hunting and we stopped in a gas station convenience store beforehand. I had my BM fixed presidio 155SBK. I left the knife in the truck but I walked in with an empty sheath. The cashier grilled my leg but it was empty.
 
It's common around here to see guys with a knife on their belt. Wouldn't of even been noticed.
 
Had a Recon Scout on my side a couple of times when I went into a carry out. Nothing came of it. All depends on where you live, I'd say.
 
This summer in Scandinavia it occurred a couple of time to me that I walked directly from the woods into a supermarket with my Mora 2000 hanging on my belt, I didn't realise it was still there. I was carrying my rucksack and wearing hiking shoes and such, but when I noticed the knife during the first time, I felt a bit uncomfortable. Fortunately people over there seem to be used to knives on belts, but here in the Netherlands that's absolutely not done. If I go to a supermarket here with that same Mora on my belt... I don't want to think about it.
 
I've been carrying this little guy lately.

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I'm not very used to fixed blade carry, so I'm trying to figure out the best sheath for it. Now that it's on my belt, I've received several comments about it. Fortunately, they've all been positive. People around here seem enthusiastic about knives, especially handmade ones.
 
Sometime I'll wear a f.b. for shits and giggle but not often. Especially when riding my scoot I prefer it over a folder cause most of the time a folder is harder to open with gloved hands unless it is a big folder. I don't carry outrageously big f.b's but big enough. As long as it isn't a state or county bldg or Federal bldg. or a bank I am good to go I figure. keepem sharp

Just a PS here, my eldest son loves the CS mini Pendleton hunter I gave him. He wears it religously and he doesn't care where he goes with it. I know he goes into the bank with it on his hip and no one has said a word to him. So go figure.
 
A lot of landscape workers in Reno carry sheathed fix blades all the time. I see them on a weekly basis during the growing season.

I wonder if the sheeple react more to the person and their attire/looks in combination with the open carried knife in order to have their daily scare :rolleyes: The landscape workers sort of have a typical landscape look and dress. They look like landscape workers.

But contrary to that notion, I don't have your typical unsavory look about me and I once had a soccer mom freak out on me at a local bar and grill when she witnessed me deploy a ZT 0300 - she was screaming "he has a switchblade!". All I was trying to do was cut an Irish Pennant off my sleeve. Embarrassing to say the least and the knife is perfectly legal in Reno.
When I carry a FB it's usually my BK11 in waist band with a Marion David Poff Kydex sheath.
 
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I was on an overnight camping trip, that was unfortunately ended needing to take a friend to a hospital due to a nasty cut nearly severing a finger. With all the hysteria I forgot and went into the hospital with my 4" case fixed blade on my belt. It didn't take long for an attendant to notice it, and politely ask me to hand it over.

I did make sure to get the knife back once my friend was all stitched up.
 
True, some colleagues were freaking out about using my tenacious the other day; the only thing I was using it for was cutting gigantic amounts of clingfoil off a pallet of cardboard. The people at distribution probably thought it would be funny to wrap it in about an inch thick. Now, boxcutters don't handle that sort of thing but a sharp spyderco doesn't even make me sweat opening something like that up. Yet, saving half an hour worth of time was deemed little reason "to pull out a huge-ass knife".
I hate this country, even though in England the situation's even worse. Saw some girls at a Starbucks freak out because some dude pulled out a small SAK to open some sort of box.
 
for some reason or another when I was a kid (lived my whole life up til 4 yrs ago in so.cal..) I remember seeing alot of people with fixed blades, boot knives and it never appeared to be a problem...

then again most of them looked like bikers..:D not to stereotype but you know what I mean.. they just fit in with the knife.. it does seem to be more uncommon nowadays doesn't it?
 
SuzukiGS750EZ said:
with a custom 4" fixed blade on my hip. Just came back from fishing and walked in forgetting about it. When i realized i figured i'd be escorted outside or something lol, but nobody said anything. I don't know if they didn't notice or what, it was legal size, but i felt like i was breaking the law. Now, with a folder it's concealed i dont think twice. Now they got me second guessin!
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Here's how I think this works.

Out of every hundred people seeing a knife carried in public:

20% Have knives too.
30% Are just not bothered by it.
45% Are a bit wary, but mind their own business.*
(Probably because they decided that if you were carrying it openly you didn't mean any harm.)
5% maybe less, would be inclined to make a fuss.

Here's the thing though, in practice 80% of those people are not even going to notice your knife.

*Btw, I love knives and I would probably be in the 'Wary' group. I always size up the people around me and try to see what they have on them. People with knives or concealed weapons are...persons of interest. They are potential friends since they may have interests similar to my own. Potential enemies if they are criminal. And potential allies if someone ELSE is a criminal.
 
Joben said:
People with knives or concealed weapons are...persons of interest. They are potential friends since they may have interests similar to my own. Potential enemies if they are criminal. And potential allies if someone ELSE is a criminal.
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Agree 100 percent. :thumbup:
 
longbow said:
Sometime I'll wear a f.b. for shits and giggle but not often. Especially when riding my scoot I prefer it over a folder cause most of the time a folder is harder to open with gloved hands unless it is a big folder. I don't carry outrageously big f.b's but big enough. As long as it isn't a state or county bldg or Federal bldg. or a bank I am good to go I figure. keepem sharp

Just a PS here, my eldest son loves the CS mini Pendleton hunter I gave him. He wears it religously and he doesn't care where he goes with it. I know he goes into the bank with it on his hip and no one has said a word to him. So go figure.
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I live down the road in Syracuse and I never get a comment about having a fixed blade knife on my belt either. Obviously I don't carry where it's illegal, which is mostly government buildings.
 
Phillip Dobson said:
I've been carrying this little guy lately.

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I'm not very used to fixed blade carry, so I'm trying to figure out the best sheath for it. Now that it's on my belt, I've received several comments about it. Fortunately, they've all been positive. People around here seem enthusiastic about knives, especially handmade ones.
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That is an extremely cool little blade. Looks like it would be an outstanding small game knife. What steel did you use?
 
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