OK now I have various sizes of handguns and can dress around at least one of them wherever I go BUT there are those times when you can not carry. For me as a Grand parient its high school football games and other school functions with my grandkids. So I always carry a folding knife I am very partial to the CRKT Crawfor Kasper folder in fact when it was discontinued by CRKT I bought 3 more just to keep in the safe if I lost my main one. I have taken a couple of classes on the use of the folder and feel pretty safe carring one when I can't carry a handgun. Anyone else have a favorite carry knife that you have trained with?
My favorite "fighting folder" is the Spyderco P'Kal...my favorite "any task" folders are either the Delica or Endura (also Spydercos).
I love the Crawford/Kasper design (I have a couple of the Polkowski/Kasper Companions...same design, just a fixed-blade). However, I've never bought one of the folders because I hate liner locks.
Thankfully, where I live I can carry a fixed-blade. Currently my "go to blades" are either a Cold Steel push-dagger, or one of the aforementioned Companions with a sharpened swedge.
I to am lucky to live in a state that I can carry a fixed blade openly, but my main blades for carry are the old buck 110 folder used for everythng & Sog Pentagon fixed used for special events ,concealed sometimes..
First generation, delica. I've had 2 since just about the day Spyderco opened their doors......1990ish if I remember right. I think I'd cry if I lost either one of them, but one or the other is always with me.
Kershaw Scallion assisted opening. Always on me. work or play. I wear it clipped to front weak side pocket...Never leave home with out it. Scary sharp!
I'm not into knives as art forms, but carry two, one for mundane daily use and one for possible worst case SD - and that one is Cold Steel Recon 1. Because it's 4" (max legal in TN), uber sharp, comfortably flat, opens in a flash, great bigass grip could hold onto if coated with KY jelly, lethal as any, and not least of all, I'm only out about 55 clams should I somehow lose it!
I have a decent sized collection with some fine blades but I find that I have a simple Gerber Aluminium handled folder I picked up at the PX 2 years ago in my pocket most of the time.
I have a lot of knives, but the one I always go to is my Boker AK-74 (even came in a case shaped like the mag) in a switch configuration and I carry it at all times and it will be the one I always use until I get a microtech
I don't have lot of knives (6-8 is not a lot). I have only three knives that I carry (not at the same time)...two are folders.
Both the folders are Kershaws...Ken Onion Leeks. I've had no knife training, but I can easily have my Kershaw out and open in an instant with one hand...I can open and close my Kershaw with one hand.
(I did use a few band-aids getting the closing part down pat...:rofl
I carried a Spyderco Endura w/ wave for quite a while; it got a little worn and has now been replaced with an Emerson CQC7. I think an Endura w/o the wave would be an excellet "everything, everywhere" knife for carry, and it also comes with a decent price tage. Otherwise I would go for an Emerson.
I always carry a Swiss Army Knife. I know to some that's lame, but it has become a very handy tool for me to have to the point that I don't know what I did before I started carrying it. I am currently looking for a good SD folder.
I carry a CRKT M-16SRT as a duty knive, and I just picked up a SOG Flash-II primarily for off-duty use. I have started carrying both knives off-duty, the M-16 in my front left pocket and the Flash-II in my right rear pocket. The SOG is faster to deploy, IMO. YMMV
I have a decent collection of knives. I carried a first generation Spyderco Endura for about 7 years until I lost it.
Currently, my most common carries are (at work) a Benchmade Griptillian (occasionally a Lightfoot M21 from CRKT).
Off work, most common is a Spyderco Endura 4 (fully serrated). Sometimes switch to another Spyderco (I have several including a stainless Endura 4, Native 3, etc.). Also sometimes I'll carry a Balisong from Benchmade, Cold Steel or Spyderco, or one of the CKRT Cruiser series. My fixed blades now stay home (fixed blade of ANY length is a Felony in Michigan ).
A Benchmade 940 when in slacks and need something light but strong. An Emerson M-Wave(the best knife ever made) when in jeans and the extra weight is not a problem.
EDC knives are a Spyderco Delica Wave, Spyderco Salt I, and a Spyderco Co-Pilot.
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