Would you be ok with just traditional knives for pocket carry?

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Putting aside fixed blades for tougher outdoor chores, would you be ok with carrying just traditionals for pocket carry, and no moderns? Even though I own a few moderns, I think I would be ok carrying just traditional.
 
I live in an urban area, ride public transit and have been attacked more than once by dogs and was once carjacked. I carry slipjoints but usually also have a one-hand opening knife with me that is suitable for last resort protection. However I don't need it when I carry my pit bull/lab :)
 
I certainly would. I only recently began co-carrying a modern to compensate for some hand issues I'm dealing with. I've been implementing a small fixed blade with my traditional as an option other then the modern folder.

Absolutely nothing wrong with a modern folder at all but I just don't get the same feeling that I do by carrying just my traditionals :thumbup:

Paul
 
As long as it locks. Every time I get to carry a small slippy, it seems like something happens in the news that makes me reconsider. Also while hunting this year, I had a coyote run right up on me from behind. Luckily I waved my bow at it and it ran off, I think it thought I was something else. I was carrying my mini muskrat and realized I would have at least felt better with my 110 hunter. Of course I would never hope to have to use a knife in that situation, but if I did. So I've been carrying a Bucklite 422 or a paperstone 110 Hunter. I guess these are considered traditionals or modern versions of traditionals?
 
I recently got back into traditionals a few months ago and find myself looking at my modern knives in the drawer wishing I had spent that money on more traditionals. I never carry my modern knives any more. Even with my outside chores, that I originally thought I would reserve for my modern knives, has turned into Sodbuster and Opinel territory. It's not that they aren't great knives I just really like the nostalgia and variation in my traditional knives. So yea, I could forgo modern knives.
 
I now prefer traditional style knives, but I carry a ZT 350 when in a state I don't have a CCW permit. In my line of work threats of violence and the real possibility of confrontation exist. LOL, I meet the most interesting people.
 
I don't carry anything but traditionals for the simple reason I don't own anything but traditional slip joints. If I am about to do something where I'm worried that I need something a bit sturdier, or that I'm pushing the limit and the blade may fold, then I go with the original non folding knife. A sheath knife. But I've yet to find anything in my day to day life that if a 2 to 2 1/2 inch little pocket knife won't handle, a 3 or 4 inch lock blade will. If I go fishing or woods walking with my better half, I have a sheath knife on my belt. But I don't see my knife as a weapon at all, just a personal cutting tool. I've prowled around the wilds of Washington D.C. for many many years now, and I've yet to have to think about my knife as a weapon.
 
I could, but why would I want to? I like all sorts of knives, not just slipjoints.

- Christian
 
I only carry traditionals, it's a few years now since I carried anything else. I own a few folders I'd characterise as 'modern classics', but only because I'm too lazy to get round to selling them. I also own a few fixed-blades which I don't regard as traditional, but they don't get carried either.
 
Just seems like the moderns have more things to go wrong with some of the fancy locking mechanisms.
 
Realistically? Sure.

Ideally, however, there are times where a modern knife is easier to use. I choose my daily carry depending on my plans. Sometimes, plans change and whatever I have will make do, but if I know I'll be doing something that a particular modern would be more suited for then I choose it.
 
Yep, I've pretty much sold off or traded all my modern knives except for a few, they just sit on the self or in a bag.
 
I haven't carried a modern style knife in more than a year. Like one of the people above I wish I had the money that I had spent on modern style knives back to spend on traditional knives or something else. My modern style knife are collecting dust. They are WAY more knife than most people will ever need. My dad carried a Case slippy for decades. The only other knife he used was a fixed blade for gutting and skinning deer. I most usually carry a Case medium Stockman. I sometime run into things where the different blades are useful. I use the main clip for food and the sheepfoot and spey for non food work.
 
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