Folders (folding knives). What's Your Favorite?

[gshayd]

Benchmade

SOG Pentagon with a 5" blade

Kershaw

 

[gshayd]

 

[sharkey]

Too many to have a favorite BUT I have a clear bias for titanium frame locks, D2 steel, and ball bearing actions. I have one auto but avoid them mostly. I am a lefty so that has a lot to do with it. Flippers rule.

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[bigwheel]

How do those work out in a gun fight?

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Too many to have a favorite BUT I have a clear bias for titanium frame locks, D2 steel, and ball bearing actions. I have one auto but avoid them mostly. I am a lefty so that has a lot to do with it. Flippers rule.

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I'm a lefty as well, I carry my knives on my right side.

 

[Moonpie]

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Awwwww.....this is cheatin’! Not folders. LoL

 

[sharkey]

How do those work out in a gun fight?

Pretty well if within bad breath distance.

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[sharkey]

I'm a lefty as well, I carry my knives on my right side.

Yeah so do I and I train to access it and is it right handed but for typical cuttng tasks, I use my left. Every handgun I own is either a Glock or has an ambi safety.

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[gshayd]

Awwwww.....this is cheatin’! Not folders. LoL

Well, I had surgery on my right wrist and it doesn't bode well for my flippers since I now have to use my left hand. So I needed something that when I needed it I needed it so the OTF was the way to go.

 

[gshayd]

How do those work out in a gun fight?

well if all you have is a knife in a gunfight I would humble myself and try to walk away. I once sold some land to a young man who pulled his knife on somebody with a gun. He was buried owing me some money. He had a previous wife he has not divorced, another lady who had a son by him and his parents. So you might want to know if the guy you are mad at is carrying if all you have is a knife. Yes, it is a legal mess. So my advice is to avoid fights if all you have is a knife unless you are some kind of super ninja or assasin.

 

[easy rider]

A knife is a backup weapon. I hope I never have to pull my gun in defense, let alone have to get to a point where I need to pull my knife in defense.

 

[deemus]

A knife is a backup weapon. I hope I never have to pull my gun in defense, let alone have to get to a point where I need to pull my knife in defense.

Yep. I figure if I ever have to use my knife to defend myself, I'm already in big trouble. My knife is a tool more than a weapon.

Fir the record, I really like my Boker Kalishnakov autos. Tough to beat for $40ish.

 

[Bozz10mm]

My knife is a tool more than a weapon.

Same here. My Kershaw Blur gets used mostly for opening Amazon boxes. It is my favorite knife though. I've got a couple or three Boker automatics, but the Blur opens faster than the push button autos because I don't have to search for the button.

 

[cb51]

Why on earth if you live in a state where you can get a carry license soooo easy, would you wan too carry. knife instead of a gun for personal defense????????

If you try to use a knife and the other guy has a gun, you're doo-doo is very weak. It ain't gonna comet in your favor. Ever since 1957 and Horace Smith and Danial Wesson campout with the first self contained metallic cartridge, the small handgun made the Bowie knife obsolete. If you try to use a knife against a guy with another knife, you're in for a lot if stitches, it you win, and a nice cool slab in the morgue if you lose.

Look guys, I'm no sugar ninja, only a guy who survived a crappy life trying to grow up to adulthood in a inner city neighborhood in D.C. where street violence was common. I saw a real knife fight once. The two guys did a g great job of butchering each other and one died on the scene and the other went to the ER and time intensive care to see if he'd make it. After seeing that, I don't even carry a knife that could be used in a fight. I don't think the little Swiss Army knife in the coin pocket of my jeans would be much good.

On the other hand, I did see real live shootings. Plural. Unlike a knife wound, that didn't have the shock effect of a bullet, I never saw anyone who got a hit anywhere in the center of the body that didn't go down right then. Even small caliber's seems to have that effect if the bullet got into the center of mass. But I've seen people get cut and fight like the devil, and even get stabbed in a fight and think it was a punch until after the fight and they discovered they were bleeding. Knives just don't have that fast effect like a gun shot does.

They say God created man, and Sam Colt made them equal. Not Spyderco, Benchmade, or any other tacticool ninja knives that are sold on too much fantasy of mono e mono and John Rambo.

What a knife is good for is intimidating a mugging victim into quietly giving up his wallet. Or his car. It's a great criminal weapon of intimidation that is cheap enough to be tossed down the next sewer or dumpster as you run past. Same for a box cutter. Cheap, scary, and disposable if you're a felon with a record and can't be caught with a weapon.

What I saw a lot of grown men in D.C. carrying for personal defense was some sort of blunt force trauma tool. Stout walking stick wit brass head, Crescent wrench in back pocket, piece of sawn off pool stick under seat of car or bar, ball peen hammer nearby or on floor of car. My own mentor in the gang I was in, Ray, had been in prison and couldn't carry a gun or large knife. But he was a motorcycle mechanic by trade and was employed so, and he always had his wrench in his back pocket for "working on my bike, man." He also carried a nice walking stick with a brass lion head and he used it once to beat the ever lovin dog poo out of a guy he had a fight with in Gaffney's Bar on 14th street. The other guy pulled a knife and Ray destroyed him. Other guys knife never drew any blood.

Even in anti gun D.C. people who really wanted to defend themselves got a small gun from the neighborhood gun guy. It was the number one choice over everything else. Second was some kind of blunt force club. Knives were seen as a punks weapon.

 

[Bozz10mm]

Why on earth if you live in a state where you can get a carry license soooo easy, would you wan too carry. knife instead of a gun for personal defense????????

I don't think anyone here has advocated for carrying a knife instead of a handgun. But it's not a bad idea to carry a knife in addition to a handgun.

 

[BRD@66]

After I cut myself a 2nd time, my Scoutmaster cut 2 more corners off my Totin' Chip & sent me back to knife safety class.

 

[easy rider]

I carry my knife as well as my gun 99.9% of the time. I only commented what I did since others were talking about bringing a knife to a gun fight and was wondering why someone would pull out their knife instead of their gun. Even if someone came at me with a knife, my gun would come out before my knife.

 

[MTA]

I always go for the econo kershaws. I think they are nice for what they are and hold a decent edge.

I couldn't bring myself to spend much more money but I did get myself and my wife a pair of Kershaw Launch auto knives that were on sale at bladehq.

This will be my first "expensive" knife and I am excited for it

 

[deemus]

cb51, you need to read a little closer. Most us have referred to our knives as tools, not weapons.

 

[Moonpie]

I always go for the econo kershaws. I think they are nice for what they are and hold a decent edge.

I couldn't bring myself to spend much more money but I did get myself and my wife a pair of Kershaw Launch auto knives that were on sale at bladehq.

This will be my first "expensive" knife and I am excited for it

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Just purchased one of those to try out.
Waiting on it to arrive now.
Looks like a nice little pocket carry knife.

I've had decent luck with those Boker Kalishnikov automatics. They aren't very expensive and are pretty tough.