Where Have You "Pulled Out Your Beckers"?

[arcadiaknives]

That sounds a little perverse but whatever.

Took my dog to the vet the other day and when the doc needed something cut "I pulled out my Becker" and cut the package open in a flash. The doc's eyes opened wide but seemed impressed. I then simply put my Becker back in it's sheath and tucked it in my shirt.

 

[LECTER]

My 14 at a town picnic this past summer while trying to cut a steak with a plastic knife.

The woman in front of me backed away.

Germans don't like knives much.

 

[Liveitloud]

I use my 11 at work everyday. It used to get looks but I have been there for 12 years so they are pretty used to seeing me pull out a blade. On of the doctors there actually said she would sure like to have a knife to keep in her purse just in case she needed it so I gifted her with a Byrd Cara Cara. She likes it a lot.

 

[maethor]

My 14 at a town picnic this past summer while trying to cut a steak with a plastic knife.

The woman in front of me backed away.

Germans don't like knives much.

I had someone call my BK-14 a "combat dagger" when I pulled it out to help him cut something when his crappy old dull-as-hell SAK just didn't cut it.

 

[mrn8]

I use the 13 and 14 all the time at work. Whether it's boxes or cables, it always gets the job done. I've finally learned to use a screwdriver as a screwdriver and a knife as a knife.

 

[LECTER]

I had someone call my BK-14 a "combat dagger"

Rofl at combat dagger! :thumbup:

 

[Liveitloud]

Combat Dagger that's funny. Imagine what he would have said had to you pulled out the 9.

 

[LECTER]

imagine what he would have said had to you pulled out the 9.

Polizei!!!

 

[357survival]

Whipped out my 14 at work to open a stubborn bag of chips.

 

[thatotherguy]

"It's a frickin' sword!"
Funny that Germans don't like knives much, some of the best knives in the world come out of Germany.
I used my 11 in lowes today 3 times to pry stuck tiles out of the bottom of a fishtank that the guy was using for a lizard.
Salesguy commented "that's one heck of a pocketknife"

 

[LECTER]

The few people who've seen my BK2 have all gone like this:



And then came the obligatory:

"Is that legal??!!??"

And then I say:

"Nope!"

 

[clich]

Ive started neck carrying the remora at work for the winter. It opens bags of rock salt like a dream. 3000 pounds opened today getting prepared for a possible ice storm tonight. Knives lose their edge so fast when they are belly deep in rock salt. I've actually resharpened it on a plow blade.

 

[maethor]

The few people who've seen my BK2 have all gone like this:



And then came the obligatory:

"Is that legal??!!??"

And then I say:

"Nope!"

Well, actually it is, under certain circumstances. If you're hiking, or camping, or fishing, or hunting, or doing anything that someone in their right mind would think knives to be somewhat neccessary or useful for, you can carry a knife with a blade length of over 12cm. Check out http://messer-werkzeuge.de/ for more info.

 

[SoldMyHat]

I get strange looks in the office with my BK11. In TN you can conceal carry a blade up to 4"
I hate explaining that one. All the time!! I don't get why people think fixed blades are scarier than folders. Oh well. People suck. I'll just get used to it.

 

[thatotherguy]

I find that it's nigh on impossible to manipulate any kind of folder with a pair of heavy winter gloves on, so I carry a small fixed blade.
Gets comments every day.

 

[Wolf_1989]

One of the first times I used my BK-5, one of the guys I know with Fur/Fish/Game called me to field dress a deer someone had hit and they shot it to put it down. I drew that Magnum Camp and the other guy with him, who had only been working there about a couple weeks, looked like he was going to faint.

Then there was the time I was cleaning some good sized catfish with it on a river bank and these yuppie lookin' dudes in a shiny new bass boat looked over at me and didn't waste any time moving to the other side of the river.

 

[Murphnuge]

I use my 14 a lot at work and usually have a random full size Becker in my pack. Early this summer I cut a lot of watermelon, cantelope and various veggies with my BK9 & BK10. MY coworkers are pretty much desensitized to my knife addiction.

 

[wasatchdan]

I pulled out both BK-9's at work last week. Everyone oohed and ahhed as they passed them around. I whipped out my stripped BK-2 today for show and tell, and now everyone wants to get one and have me do theirs up like I did mine. I love my job. My coworkers are quite supportive of my hoplophilia.

 

[Bladite]

i have a variety of little knives all over. in jackets, vests, bags, wherever. just in case i don't have one on me (like say, i'm running, swimming, or something)...

these days, i try to be the last person to offer to pull out a knife. more often, people just look to me to borrow one. depending on the person, i often say "why, what for, and i'll do it...", don't trust many people with my knives

then, i try to be super discrete about it. too many freaking sheeps.

amusingly though, on trips where such things are kosher, i get a lot of very enthusiastic people (often womens) who want to play.

esp with the TacTool and the Machax. brute strength, and curves. go figure.

 

[BRL]

I use my modified BK-11 as my work/field knife. It, ah, gets comments "Gnarly" being the latest and most entirely accurate comment I've heard.

My hunter buddy bugged out when he saw my BK-2 and it immediately went on his want list.