Funny about losing knives, pocket knives that is. 'seems like you go through times when you loose EVERY ONE you touch, then go for years with no problem. You will loose a good one then hang on to a cheap one until you wish you would loose it! A few months ago I lost my Case cooperlock. I had only had it a year or so and was just starting to get it really worn in and comfy, when it disapeared. I looked and looked, and then bingo about a week later i just happened to look down and there it was scuffled into the dirt and gravel on the forge floor. A little worse for the experience. apparently i had been walking around on it for several days. ther is a ZEN like knack to finding lost things. a handy thing as one gets older.
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Worst luck ever...this ever happent to you?(knife content)
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I lost an Al Mar Falcon in a LA museum once. After I noticed it missing I went back to the museum and reported it. The officer wanted to know if it was legal size. I think they were more interested in arresting me than in finding my knife. I remember one of the young attendants hanging around me and watching me while I was sitting down. I figure that was when it slipped out of my pocket. What irritates me is not that I lost it, but that somebody else got it.
Any knife not secured in a sheath can easily be lost. Clipping to a pocket may help but is no guarantee. The irony of keeping it in a sheath or clipping it to the pocket is that it may not get lost, just stolen. This is why an expensive knife is less practical than an expensive handgun or rifle. The bigger the item is, the less likely it is to be lost or stolen from your person.
I sympathise (sp?), I know the pain.
Any knife not secured in a sheath can easily be lost. Clipping to a pocket may help but is no guarantee. The irony of keeping it in a sheath or clipping it to the pocket is that it may not get lost, just stolen. This is why an expensive knife is less practical than an expensive handgun or rifle. The bigger the item is, the less likely it is to be lost or stolen from your person.
I sympathise (sp?), I know the pain.
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That's the reason I never carry anything, that I can't afford to lose or replace easily.
I'm pretty good at not losing things, but very good at miss-placing things. So, things usually do turn up, then it's like running into an old friend.
I love the old cliche, "Why do you find things in the last place you look?"
Because only an idiot, keeps looking after they found it.
I'm pretty good at not losing things, but very good at miss-placing things. So, things usually do turn up, then it's like running into an old friend.
I love the old cliche, "Why do you find things in the last place you look?"
Because only an idiot, keeps looking after they found it.
I had a Spyderco Michael Walker Lightweight stolen. The only knife I've ever really lost so far.
Once I thought I lost my old Victorinox Spartan (way back when it was the only knife I carried). I was considering getting another one when a few days later I found it on the floor of the car to the left of the driver's seat. It had just slipped out of my left front pocket.
Now every once in a while I unconsciously pat my pocket(s) and/or pocket clip to make sure everything is there.
Jim
Once I thought I lost my old Victorinox Spartan (way back when it was the only knife I carried). I was considering getting another one when a few days later I found it on the floor of the car to the left of the driver's seat. It had just slipped out of my left front pocket.
Now every once in a while I unconsciously pat my pocket(s) and/or pocket clip to make sure everything is there.
Jim
I have lost a few older knives through the rigers of moving, but didn't feel that bad. Kicked myself in the but a few times. But the worst thing that has happened to me is that I have had several knives and bayonets stolenfrom me and that realy get me where it hurts the most. Don't know who to kick then just keep looking around to see if any one comes up useing it.
Hey friends!
Worst thing that happend to me happend this week, most probably i got a package seized in custom...in the package was 2 BM 239 bali-songs and 1 BM 45, they were all seconds but who cares, they were supposed to be users, not collectors pieces, and how easy are these to get again??? not so very much no :-(
This is the first time i got anything seized in costums and of course it is somrthing that's not replaceable!
This suck!
So i'll be home crying for a few days now, thanks for sharing my grief ;-)
Take care and be well!/Jonas aka 2Sharp
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"May all your detonations be expected"
Worst thing that happend to me happend this week, most probably i got a package seized in custom...in the package was 2 BM 239 bali-songs and 1 BM 45, they were all seconds but who cares, they were supposed to be users, not collectors pieces, and how easy are these to get again??? not so very much no :-(
This is the first time i got anything seized in costums and of course it is somrthing that's not replaceable!
This suck!
So i'll be home crying for a few days now, thanks for sharing my grief ;-)
Take care and be well!/Jonas aka 2Sharp
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"May all your detonations be expected"
I lost an Endura under a house I was working on to sell. I had contracted out some excavation work under the house and I suspect one of the workers ended up with a new knife. I'm just glad it wasn't expensive.
rk
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As for me and my house...
Joshua 24:15
rk
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As for me and my house...
Joshua 24:15
"I found it" well actually, my wife did, but hey at least it isn't missing anymore.
Now to get that kydex sheath made so as to preclude any more accidents.
Thank you one and all for your support and kind words.
Peace
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The vague and tenuous hope that GOD is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the conscience of millions.
*A. W. Tozer
2 Cor 5:10
Now to get that kydex sheath made so as to preclude any more accidents.
Thank you one and all for your support and kind words.
Peace
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The vague and tenuous hope that GOD is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the conscience of millions.
*A. W. Tozer
2 Cor 5:10
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Guys, you're letting this go pretty easily, aren't you?
WHERE did you find it? Was it someplace goofy? I hope so, 'cuz I'd hate to be the only one who always loses things, goes ballistic, then finds it in his pocket. . . .
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"It is not criminals who enter schools and shoot children . . ."
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WHERE did you find it? Was it someplace goofy? I hope so, 'cuz I'd hate to be the only one who always loses things, goes ballistic, then finds it in his pocket. . . .
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"It is not criminals who enter schools and shoot children . . ."
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Gwinnydapooh,
Slapping myself on the head
Sorry I forgot that part. My wife said she found it under the driver seat in my car.
You know, I must have looked under there 3-4 times. I guess I was just too stressed out to see it.
Longden,
My thoughts exactly.
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The vague and tenuous hope that GOD is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the conscience of millions.
*A. W. Tozer
2 Cor 5:10
[This message has been edited by Scarman (edited 06 December 1999).]
Slapping myself on the head
Sorry I forgot that part. My wife said she found it under the driver seat in my car.
You know, I must have looked under there 3-4 times. I guess I was just too stressed out to see it.
Longden,
My thoughts exactly.
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The vague and tenuous hope that GOD is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the conscience of millions.
*A. W. Tozer
2 Cor 5:10
[This message has been edited by Scarman (edited 06 December 1999).]