I bought the rubber training knives for training how to defend against them. Like you, my fighting knife is a folder.
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If I was carrying a fighting knife, it wouldn’t be a folder.
Colorado law says any length of knife can be legally carried, openly
Concealed knives cannot exceed 3.5 inches of blade length…
So I can have a claymore sword hanging on my back, and be good to go,….
But a 4” blade in my pocket and I’m being charged!
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I’ve done decades of mid-evil reenactment and other hand to hand weapons training.
I like my folder for utility and daily use.
I do not carry it for fighting.
I could use it, but I carry a gun if I need to go that far.
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Will_B, I agree! (that kind of rhymes) It’s essential to be prepared, but how far do we have to go in our everyday lives to be reasonably safe? Some people suggest to carry a back-up knife, gun, flashlight, Swiss army knife, trauma kit, etc. I am not going to be burden-down with the equipment that first-responder or warrior carries. Like your knife Will_B, mine carries easily being a bit longer than a Bic lighter, deploys easily, has a hilt in case things get slippery, and I’m amazed at the utility of it because I use it mutipule times daily!
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And, I’m pretty sure it could do some damage if it has to.
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It’s not the equipment you carry, it’s the knowledge you bring to the situation.
I’ve had to self administer a tourniquet, I didn’t have one,
A pen, and a whole roll of reinforced medical tape from the first aid kit on the wall at work did the job.
It wasn’t the equipment, it was the knowledge of where to apply pressure, and how to tie it off that may have saved my life that day.
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Little hard to see, (way harder to even get the picture without help!)
But this is the inside of my left elbow, the orange line is just left of the actual wound scar (again somewhat hard to see) The yellow line is surgical to retrieve the tendons in my forearm.
My hand was pulled into a conveyor belt, my elbow hooked on the guide.
The guide cut all the way the bone of my humerus, and according to the surgeon, almost 1/16 of an inch into the bone.
Severed my bicep, severed the tendons that control the rotation of your wrist (the human body is crazy!) and cut several arteries which made for an impressive bleed!
Seriously, the stream of blood was the size of my finger and flew two feet before starting to drop!!!
My first thought was “my hand is hamburger, why am I holding my elbow?”
When I saw the blood, my next thought was “I need a tourniquet!”
Then blah blah blah, hospital, surgery months of healing and physical therapy (which hurt soo much worse!)
You can get by with next to nothing in an emergency.
Stop the bleed, control the shock. Everything else is secondary.
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I think maybe 3-5 people came to my aid, I worked with at least 40 who were within eyesight.
Nobody aside from myself knew how to tie a tourniquet, or even where the pressure points are to slow blood loss.
Carry your knife so you can cut things in an emergency.
Know how to stop a bleed, and be prepared to improvise, your knife can be a life saving tool
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Yes indeed!
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