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A look at a half-dozen fixed blade carry knives ‘in the rotation’

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That’s pretty stabby

On the cutting board, I give you six sub-$125 (most sub-$50 if you shop around) light fixed blade knives that are small enough to carry every day (depending on clothing options) while still being able to along with you almost everywhere in an urban or suburban environment if needed while remaining nominally concealable. Besides typical chores in daily life, they should also be strong enough to fill a foray into the woods or camp, capable of light bushcraft.

From left to right: A Kershaw 4007, CRKT Mossback, Cold Steel Spike, CRKT Obake, Tops Mountain Spike, and a Benchmade SOCP 176. All in current production

More detail on each, with plusses and minuses, noted in my column at Tac44.com.

The Back up Knife

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Sure, you carry a gun everyday, along with keys, a mobile device, and other items, but what about that all-too-often needed item that we rarely think about. Yes, the humble knife. Odds are, if you are a gun person, you are a knife person as well.

There are a million and one uses for the average sharp pocketknife. I grew up in the South and it was a passage of manhood to learn how to safely operate a folding penknife. By the time I was six, I was issued an old Barlow folder by my grandfather and expected to keep up with it. This of course led to a few sliced fingers, trimmed leaves, one whittled bar of soap, a cut hose (it was an old hose anyway), and a few initials carved in various live and dead pieces of wood. However I grew past that stage and have carried a knife ever since.

Moving into adulthood, I have carried a knife both for utilitarian purposes as well as for last-ditch self-defense…

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Read the rest in my column at Firearms Talk