carrying a fixed blade?

Fred Perrin does a variation on the IWB- he uses a thick braided lanyard, and a "leash" attached to the bottom of the sheath. The leash is attached to your belt/beltloop,and the knife is tucked down the side of your pants, with the lanyard hanging out. Draw is basically running your thumb along your waistline, until you feel the lanyard, thumb and index fingers colse on the lanyard, and jerk upwards. The fingers close around the grip, as it comes out of your pants. Removal from the sheath is accomplished by reaching the end of the leash. Works best with blades 4" or less.

I've played with this;but my overall preference is grip "out" carry,IWB. This would be a good totally out-of-sight method,though.

I believe pics are either on Don Rearic's site,or at the Perrin link from there.
www.donrearic.com

If I feel the need for a fixed blade, I'll go with my Gerber Commando which rides in a really neat sheath attached to my SAM ANDREWS shoulder rig. To draw the knife grab the handle which is extended from the side of the "off side" of the holster harness and give a sharp yank DOWNWARD and it snaps free! The sheath snaps onto the spare mag holders that mount horizontally in stacked fashion. Awesome arrangement. http://www.andrewsleather.com look at accessories for the Monarch rig.

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Originally Posted by kenpotex

If it's legal, fixed blade is the way to go (at least for your primary)...Regardless of the sheath, I carry at 2:00 with the sheath oriented for a reverse grip draw.

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You know, I'm coming to the same conclusion. I've got a number of clip folder knives including Emerson Commander (on me now), Emerson mini-Commander (on me now), Emerson Karambit (no, it's not on me now, what kinda guy carries three kinves? Hmmm...), a Spyderco Native and a favorite Strider/Buck/Tarani.

They're all great knives, but even with the Wave feature on the Emersons' they're nowhere near as fast or as reliable as a fixed blade would be. I think you could bring a fixed blade in to action from the 2:00 position in a reverse grip (or ice pick grip as it's sometimes called) so fast it'd be a blur.

IWB @ 1 o'-clock
http://www.brockblades.com/knives/kimberco.jpg
http://www.brockblades.com/


You can get it single edged!!!

I am also in Colorado. I carry a Benchmade resistor with a 3.4 inch blade. It comes with a nifty sheath which I use to carry IWB around 5 o clock

http://www.americanheritagesports.com/Images/bm220.jpg

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Originally Posted by Mr_Dove

I am also in Colorado. I carry a Benchmade resistor with a 3.4 inch blade. It comes with a nifty sheath which I use to carry IWB around 5 o clock

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The sheath doesn't look like an IWB; how do you carry it IWB?

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Originally Posted by oregonshooter

IWB @ 1 o'-clock
http://www.brockblades.com/knives/kimberco.jpg
http://www.brockblades.com/


You can get it single edged!!!

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That is a sweet knife...don't post stuff like that, now I want one :biggrin2:

How do you think I found out about it? :) That bug bites!