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Great thread, Roscoe.
Well, like cobrabill, my rail company doesn't want me to carry. I guess they do still allow up to a 3.5 inch blade which is not too shabby. So, in view of this, in my grip, I carry a straight bladed Chicago Cutlery 3-Inch Paring/Boning
Knife. Great for apples, cucumbers etc.
For hunting, I carry a Buck
Pathfinder. It's small enough to slip into a back pocket, yet large enough to gut a deer. If it gets broken splitting a hipbone, it's
warranted for life. It replaced my unhandy, huge, homemade Bowie style that I made as a kid in case I ran up on a bear. My back-up is a
Ranger, same warranty.
In my pocket, I carry a tiny "Saturday Night" stealth knife with a 1.5 inch blade, scissors and a nail file. Before they would let me in, I had to take it all the way back to my car, when I went to Kennedy Space Center. It's been with me for over 5 years without getting lost and that is a record. One side of the plastic handles fell off long ago. It just barely lets me open packages and snip a hangnail or small rocket gasket.
I did have to stab a conductor to death with it once. And you all know ...dead conductors don't talk like the one left alive working with Bill, so we are still allowed to carry. I had to stab him 487.6 times with the tiny blade, in between blowing the whistle. One of the handles fell off at 203, like I said.
The official cause of conductor death was determined to be some kind of rash or insect bites, which still left me and jackknives in the clear. I told everybody I just thought he was sleeping again, and they felt sorry for me having had to work alone most of the trip. So I recommend such a small knife for everyone.
Wes
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