Whats the Stupidest thing someone has ever done to/with your knife?

I let my buddy borrow a knife to cut some rope, and he decided it was a good idea to use a giant rock as a cutting board of sorts! I cringed when I heard the knife drag across the rock. Ugghh
 
singularity35 said:
Apparently you do need a lecture if anybody can load your gun with your mag AND fire your gun in your house. ;)

Its your gear, you're responsible.
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I tell you what, come stay the night in my neighborhood, my very street has been ranked the worst/highest crime street in the city of Columbus since 2003, and then you can lecture me on not leaving guns/mags where they're accessible quickly. The mayor takes a monthly bike ride up my street and before that no less than 50 officers have to come threw and do a sweep just so the local mayor can be safe. Police don't respond to shots fired (43A's) even in the middle of the day around here.

You're a range officer, its your job to be a dick I get that. But don't think for one second you know what's best when it comes to protecting my family, in my home. You don't know my situation at all. What we do, the precautions we take (like having loaded mags easily accessible) are absolutely required.

Look around, my storie's been told, just this past July 4th we had to act swiftly with deadly force because there was a very high/drunk and violent guy kicking at our door randomly in the middle of the night, (everything we did was recorded on out home survalance system AND over the phone on the 911 system, and not only were we found "not at fault" but the Lt who came said we did everything perfect) if you want to know why we do what we do I've told that story here. Again its your job to be a dick and advocate firearms safety and I'm not gettin on you for doing that, but don't come in here tellin me I'm wrong for doing what's necessary to protect myself, wife and 3 small kids.

Yes its my fault in the end, but don't come in here faulting me because my very close friend had access to a loaded magazine while handling a UNLOADED, safe firearm in my home. Easy access to firearms and ammo is absolutely required here, this ain't the hamptons and it sure as hell isn't a shooting range.
 
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singularity35 said:
Being a range officer I've see my share of race guns. None of them have their red dot sighng the ejection port. There's no excuse for a negligent discharge except negligence.
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Well Mr range officer, aren't you special? Firstly, I didn't say he couldn't see into it completely, I said he couldn't see nicely into the chamber. It was completely his fault for not checking properly. I have been a range officer my whole life, and here is some advice. . . Mistakes happen, accidents occur. It's just a matter of time before it happens on your firing range. All you can do is your best, but you don't have control over what other people do. People make mistakes. As with car accident ect.
pointing fingers and showing authority doesn't help.

The conversation is in light of the people doing silly things, not a lecture lesson... something our senior instructors aways say, if you haven't experienced an ad, you haven't been around guns long enough. . . Anyway.. . I know it's not a funny matter, but I'm past the tuff guy range officer stage, and find ad's to be very humorous once realised no one is hurt.. and that person has also learnt a very valuable lesson. Great dinner conversations ;)
 
I may be splitting the proverbial hair here, but I don't think anybody is lecturing anybody on keeping guns and mags where they're accessible. I can certainly speak for myself when I say I understand the need for readily accessible defensive options, particularly in regard to protecting one's family.

That said, while it may be important to have firearms accessible, I'm sure you know it's equally important (and our responsibility as well) to ensure that only certain people actually access them, and that they are only accessed under certain circumstances. I have no doubt that you'll certainly be mindful of the 'Christmas star massacre' the next time you have a friend who'd like to handle your empty gun in close proximity to other loaded mags.

That's all I'm going to say about that.


Now, as for my stupid knife story, I once handed my Leatherman Wave to my buddy's dad as we were helping him to install a new front door. I thought it was going to use it to score and snap some shims we had just put in place.
Nope. He opened the serrated blade and start sawing through plaster and sheet rock to get a little more clearance for the top of the door.

"umm.... yeah.... that's not a drywall saw"

From that point on, it really wasn't a knife either. hahah
 
This must actually be Prac Tac...a knife thread turned into one about guns...
 
stabman said:
This must actually be Prac Tac...a knife thread turned into one about guns...
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Well... it can be somewhat of a gray area... :D
 
Disgraceful. A light-hearted thread about knives turns into a classic Prac Tac personal attack. None of it belongs here. No courtesy, no civility, no one knows how to walk away from a loudmouth. Stop it now or this thread is dead.
 
You guys don't cut wire with your knives, I scrape, cut tin cans open, cut electrical wire, tie wraps, light prying with my knives. If done with the right knife all this is fine.

Reporting the knife into a tree or the ground, using the tip for a screw driver things like this are abuse.

Remember the Buck knives logo/shield with the blade being hammered through the nail to show how tough the knife is with the proper heat treat or how about S&Ms file and wire tested tang stamp?

There's a difference between use and abuse on a knife, negligence is a whole other story.
 
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