Anyone here ever actually used a hunting knife for self-defense?

[Hunter-Habib]

Sorry for asking such a insensetive question

No apologies necessary. You're a young man who asked it good-naturedly.

 

[cwpayton]

No but my wife killed a small bear < 100, with her fixed blade buck, no gun involved. she jumped on it. still got the hide from Ca. glory days. I had an inmate that was stabbed 50+ times with an ink pen, they use anything for a weapon.

 

[Flbt]

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No but my wife killed a small bear < 100, with her fixed blade buck, no gun involved. she jumped on it. still got the hide from Ca. glory days. I had an inmate that was stabbed 50+ times with an ink pen, they use anything for a weapon.

ours like the tooth brush melted with a razor blade in it
Or ground down to a point
And the ever popular bed spring in the dorms.

 

[Flbt]

Sorry for asking such a insensetive question

Hunter-habib
Is right I will not go into detail on any thing that was really serious.
There a lot of that stuff people carry with them.
And I my case there also family around and most people no matter how bad still have loved ones and family.
You would be surprised at the visit line at a prison.

 

[Safari Dave]

I have deployed both a knife and pistol (on different occasions) during altercations with guys who were either high on drugs or mentally unstable. (In neither case, did they see my weapon, but it made me feel much more comfortable than I would have been without them).

I've used a knife on a couple of live animals, but neither was a true "self-defense" situation.

 

[pilar]

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ours like the tooth brush melted with a razor blade in it
Or ground down to a point
And the ever popular bed spring in the dorms.

My friend a warden at TDJC has a terrible scar across his chest and stomach from a toothbrush and melted razor from when he was still a CO in the units

 

[camperx]

In my personal day-to-day, I don’t really consider my knife to be a great self-defense tool. It falls way down the line of choices for defense. Right before improvised weapons and biting.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Maybe tattoos which is very common for MS-13. Unlike the Bloods and Crips that we encountered and Nortenos and Surenos, MS-13 didn’t really wear colors but they all had tattoos sometimes on their forehead, chest, hands, back, anywhere really.

When I worked in a women's prison we had one older American woman that seemed like someone's grandmother except for the MS 13 tats. They were large and on her forehead, chin cheeks and neck. She was fairly well behaved but the tats were indicative of potential problems. I don't know what crime got her into prison, but the tattoos let us know exactly what her affiliations were.

 

[Foxi]

Fortunately, I have never needed one for self-defense.However, I had to put a number of roes out of their misery with a stich to the neck, especially in the case of animals that had been hit by cars, where I feared ricochets from firearms.We practiced this often during our hunter training (on dead animals).



However, an acquaintance whom I have met regularly for years on hunting trips was standing in front of me as we said goodbye to our host. I heard him being asked how his arm and hand were doing. Then I saw that his hand was covered in scars.
The following happened:

He, a forester with a lot of experience (often a problem,no fear anymore), shot a boar,round 60kg, early in the evening. He hoped that something else would come along, but that wasn't the case, so after 40 minutes he went to his prey, unloaded his rifle and, with it on his shoulder, grabbed the sow by the hind leg. It jumped up and bit his arm. Fortunately, he had his knife with him and killed it after a struggle.
When I heard this, I became very thoughtful. I never carry a knife with me; they are all hanging in our slaughterhouse .

Foxi

 

[Ridge Runner]

While hunting pigs in west Texas another hunter came back to camp with his hand bandaged up and bloody. “What happened?”, everyone asked. He said he was sitting in a hole he dug out in the sand as a blind, and after it was dark he could hear coyotes, and they got close. “You got bit by a coyote?!”
“No…I pulled my knife out and cut myself!”

Had to laugh at your response as I can relate; as there was a period of time in my much, much, younger days that it seemed everytime I picked up a knife, regardless of blade length, folding or fixed blade, at some point before putting the knife away after using it I would end up with at least one cut.

 

[bigborelover]

No apologies necessary. You're a young man who asked it good-naturedly.

Off topic but , hows the current situation in Bangladesh ?

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Off topic but , hows the current situation in Bangladesh ?

We're hanging in there.

 

[bigborelover]

We're hanging in there.

Best of luck. Atleast you people are getting fresh lots of Elish fish

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Best of luck. Atleast you people are getting fresh lots of Elish fish

Thank you. It's a pleasant change for once. In the last 16 years, our previous government would make us export the good bulk of our Elish fish to India. Now, the common citizen can enjoy this delicacy of our country more easily.

 

[bigborelover]

Thank you. It's a pleasant change for once. In the last 16 years, our previous government would make us export the good bulk of our Elish fish to India. Now, the common citizen can enjoy this delicacy of our country more easily.

Now the situation in West bengal is all the large restaurants are getting the all the fresh fish and the normal people are still getting the old lots.

 

[Scott CWO]

Got a buddy who is a retired SFO Green Beret. He received knife fighting instructions from a guy from Brazil. It came in handy once when his team was clearing a cave in Afghanistan. He came to a corner and was grabbed by a guy who jumped out from a crack in rocks. He couldn’t get to his handgun and couldn’t use his rifle so close. He deployed his fixed blade knife and used the tactics taught by the Brazilian to kill the attacker.

I’ve been shot at but have never been in a knife fight.

 

[gcbailey]

I bought a small 2.5" fixed blade knife from a local maker near my hometown. It ended up saving my ass in Iraq of all places.

 

[juan pablo pozzi]

I carry an small fixed blade by Dom Rasso or a folder even in cities in Argentina while hunting or mtb always.It served me several times as a disuasory element.By the we trained a lot in the army and then in martial arts knife combat. My recomendation ALWAYS carry a knife.