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.