What knife did you carry in scouts?

I had already started collecting while in scouts, but my main carry was a 555hg Mini Grip. I lost it 2 days into my Philmont trek though. That or someone lifted it from my pack when I wasn't looking... :(
 
Smatchet!

No, but I carried the official BSA pocket knife throughout my scouting career.
Wish I still had it, after all of the abuse it had some serious character.
 
BUCK 309..:D I bought it with my paper route tips..:thumbsup: Still got it.. Knife.. Not tips!!:p
John
 
Started off with a Wenger SAK in the Cub Scouts (not sure of the model, but it had a large and small blade, saw, can opener and corkscrew) and relied mostly on that plus a half-serrated Gerber Gator lockback up until Life, when I began to carry a Buck 119 on my belt. This was in the late 90's-early 00's
 
jackknife said:
A Camillus made 'Official' Boy Scout knife with the "Be Prepared" motto on the shield. My youngest son back in Maryland still has it.
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I carried an official scout knife that had an emblem. I can't recall the brand, but it was a multi-tool kind of knife, made in the 70's and purchased at Belk's. However, may main knife would have been some kind of Schrade.
 
Pocket knife was a Camillus "Demo" knife my uncle gave me when he got out of the Army in 1963.
Fixed blade was an Ontario 499 "Jet Pilots Survival Knife" I bought at the Army-Navy Surplus store that used to be in town.
I don't remember what brand axe I had.
Both knives and the axe are long, long gone.

The Army Reserves did give me a new Demo knife made by Western, in 1974. :D
I still have and carry that one. :)
 
I variously carried a SAK (Climber), Pilot survival knife, a Buck Bucklite 422, and of course a Rappala filet knife when I was fishing.
 
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I got that particular knife when I was a kid as a Christmas present. The blade isn't much for cutting much of anything, but the accessories are useful if you are willing to carry it on your belt.

I wasn't in the scouts as to my knowledge there were no boy scout troops in my immediate area. But I would have carried my two blade Case Barlow at that time and would have been proud to carry it. I don't really recall much about SAKs back in those days other than I thought they were sort of toy knives. 20 years later, I learned differently.

We (family) grew up pretty poor and I was well aware of not asking for stuff in general until I could buy it for my self. I probably wouldn't have joined the Boy Scouts anyway as I felt at that time it was not proper for me to make demands on my parents time or necessitate extra car trips for my convenience.
 
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Cubs in the middle fifties in Hutchinson Ks, don't remember any knives in the pack at all. Boy scouts in the late fifties, only a year about 58 or so. I had a tot n chip so I guess I had a knife but I don't remember what it was. I wish I could I could remember a lot more than I do about the scouts.
 
Victorinox Huntsman. Didn't know a thing about knives back then, just bought exactly what my scoutmaster recommended, and good thing I listened to my scoutmaster!

No fixed-blade, though, because where I come from, scouts spend more time on the parade square than out in the woods.
 
I had a SAK, one of the small lockblade models, plus a Gerber Gator with a combo edge. Worst knife imagineable, because it absolutely did not hold an edge. That said, it went through to Eagle with me, so it's still in my collection, and neither knife will ever leave me.

When I came back as a Scout leader, I bought a Cadet* and carried that along with whatever folder I would have carried that day/weekend.


*I could have used one of my several ALOX Farmers, but I wanted to have something the boys would be able to get one of if they liked it.
 
Buck 110 or a Deuce. I was in Scouts when First Blood came out, so I had a cheap "Rambo survival knife" as well with a screw off compass and hollow handle.
 
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