Your favorite dedicated hurtin' knife

jamestap said:
Complete ditto there.

Don't try to engage me with your "tactical" knife. It'll be the ol "knife to a gunfight" cliche.

I don't get the whole fighting knife thing, anyway. If you just like them, great no further justification for owning them is needed (I own way more hunting knives than I'll ever need or use.). But
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If you knew you would not post a reply that went along with the idea of the post, why did you post at all. We didn't ask you explicitly to comment on this, and since you were totally off topic, there was no effort to engage you. Quite the opposite, actually.
So you are a big bad only a gun never a knife guy. You are the same broken record repeated over and over on the site. Your cliche phrase isn't even original.
Nobody was trying to justify owning a knife made for killing. We just have them and like them. There was no 'why do you have them?' questions or explanations, no techniques for killing anyone, just a show and tell.

Since you had nothing to show, and we don't care to hear your tell that is not the point of the thread, why are you bothering post? I it just that manly for you to talk about how your gun makes you a tough guy?
 
ak585479 said:
Right know I don't really know, I guess my USMC KA-BAR. My Buck 650 Nighthawk might be better, it's definitely sharper.

HOWEVER, I vow that I will soon be the proud owner of a Spyderco Civilian. Then that will take the cake.
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I own a civilian . It collects dust like no other. I can't part with it though.
 
Any good utilitarian knife would be the most effective due to its ergonomics lending to cutting to make cutting more efficient. More efficiency means better cutting capability, and cutting is ultimately inflicting death if done with intent to kill such as slaughtering an animal for food. Criminal intent, well that is an entirely different matter.
 
jimh0220 said:
If you knew you would not post a reply that went along with the idea of the post, why did you post at all. We didn't ask you explicitly to comment on this, and since you were totally off topic, there was no effort to engage you. Quite the opposite, actually.
So you are a big bad only a gun never a knife guy. You are the same broken record repeated over and over on the site. Your cliche phrase isn't even original.
Nobody was trying to justify owning a knife made for killing. We just have them and like them. There was no 'why do you have them?' questions or explanations, no techniques for killing anyone, just a show and tell.

Since you had nothing to show, and we don't care to hear your tell that is not the point of the thread, why are you bothering post? I it just that manly for you to talk about how your gun makes you a tough guy?
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Tough guy? Quite the opposite. I have zero illusions about ever engaging in close quarter combat,

That said, my reply was, in fact, not relevant to the topic, I just have a strong opinion about knives as defensive weapons (and we all know what opinions are like.)

So, mods, please delete if you think anything I posted is inappropriate.
 
You don't need a knife... skip to 16:30 :D:D

[video=youtube;Rh2vqxGyO0s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh2vqxGyO0s[/video]
 
jimh0220 said:
If you knew you would not post a reply that went along with the idea of the post, why did you post at all. We didn't ask you explicitly to comment on this, and since you were totally off topic, there was no effort to engage you. Quite the opposite, actually.
So you are a big bad only a gun never a knife guy. You are the same broken record repeated over and over on the site. Your cliche phrase isn't even original.
Nobody was trying to justify owning a knife made for killing. We just have them and like them. There was no 'why do you have them?' questions or explanations, no techniques for killing anyone, just a show and tell.

Since you had nothing to show, and we don't care to hear your tell that is not the point of the thread, why are you bothering post? I it just that manly for you to talk about how your gun makes you a tough guy?
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I know the above wasn't addressed to me, but in reading this thread I have thought about some of these things and may have a slightly different take on them. Anthropologically we may (most of us) like knives because throughout the early part of our existence as a species we hunted with knives and spears. Maybe spears were the primary killing weapon but knives were needed for cutting up the meat and also as backup -- not to mention fighting amongst ourselves which we seemed to do a lot of. But when one has thrown one's spear into the mammoth (or an enemy tribe) and the hyena (or an enemy) shows up to drive you off -- and since your spear is still stuck in the mammoth (or elsewhere), you grab your knife. Anthropologists are hypothesizing that we retain more of those early days than we realize. We like hunting and fighting-type things (most of us) just as our wives like gathering-type things (as they go shopping day after day for no good reason IMO :-).

I like guns fine and have several. I was a rifle-instructor in the USMC for awhile, but now I live in California where I can't carry a gun; so for those who argue they would never need a knife because they always have a gun handy, I hope they live in a state that permits that. My state doesn't.

I've recently been thinking about the knives I carry on hikes. I do carry a gun, a small Walther because I typically only see coyotes where I hike. But would I use the Walther if a coyote or coyotes were after my smaller dog, Duffy (a 25 pound Schnoodle)? As someone pointed out to me, I probably wouldn't want to shoot at a coyote that was right next to Duffy; hence the desire to have a good knife on the other hip.

The chance of being attacked by a coyote is really remote. I also hike with a 110 pound Ridgeback, Ben, who likes to chase coyotes; so the knife I carry probably isn't any more likely to be used in a "hurting" activity than anyone else's on this thread, but I do think about it. I was carrying a Buck 639V but it is old and beat-up. I've started carrying a little Ka-Bar version of the Marine Corps Fighting Knife, but (in my imagination) what if we encounter a mountain lion? The gun people on this thread would tell me I should have something larger than a 22; which I do have but don't carry on hikes because the need for something larger than a 22 seems really remote. The same thing could be said for carrying something larger than my little Ka-Bar (the blade btw is 5 inches long).

I don't feel comfortable carrying a folder on my hikes. I like the little Ka-Bar for its weight but at 6 ounces it doesn't seem to have enough heft for more serious (imagined) scenarios; so I expect I'll be switching to something else one of these days. In my case the idea of a "hurting" knife isn't entirely academic. Besides coyotes we occasionally have feral dogs, and last year I ran into some scientific people trapping small rodents suspected of carrying a plague-like disease who said they had seen sign of a mountain lion not too far from where I usually hike. I suppose if I ever actually saw one I'd replace my little Walther with one of my larger guns. But I'd also want to carry a larger knife.

Lawrence
 


With the above arsenal, and being 6'4" 255lbs, I'm not one to be trifled with. If I had to use a knife, it'd be the CS Recon 1, Spyderco Schempp Rock (no pic), ESEE 5 (no pic), and if I really wanted to make the bad guy suffer, I'd stab him like 300 times with my Spyderco Dragonfly ZDP-189. Or even more embarrassing to the BG, use my gf's pink kershaw shuffle.

 
how about this Rioja Male from Spain
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my knives are defensive weapons first, tools second. i dont carry an emerson super commander or spyderco police 3 because i need them to open packages at work.
 
The Busse Argonne Assault LB is one of the purest forms of knife-as-weapon on the market today. My opinion only of course.

The 8" and 6" stickers that Nathan Carothers are making are also right up there in a somewhat sleeker package.
 
Burke said:
The Busse Argonne Assault LB is one of the purest forms of knife-as-weapon on the market today. My opinion only of course.

The 8" and 6" stickers that Nathan Carothers are making are also right up there in a somewhat sleeker package.
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Agree 1000%. The Argonne Assault is a killing machine. Pure and simple. I'd never even want one under normal circumstances, but if I was some kind of merc or commando, best believe that would be hanging from my belt.
 
Also have to add the original REKAT Hobbit Warriors and the newer Spyderco Warriors to a lesser extent.

If we go outside the realm of knives and into other edged weapons I think the CRKT Kangee is a devastatingly effective weapon although I'd like it even better if it was a couple inches longer and a little thicker.
 
Burke said:
Also have to add the original REKAT Hobbit Warriors and the newer Spyderco Warriors to a lesser extent.

If we go outside the realm of knives and into other edged weapons I think the CRKT Kangee is a devastatingly effective weapon although I'd like it even better if it was a couple inches longer and a little thicker.
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Yes sir, and even before that, the Al Mar warrior. That design has been made a long time. I loved Rekat. Their entire lineup was wicked! I would definitely add the Sifu to this list. I had many, but stupidly sold them all.
 
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