GeneV
Elite Member
Yeh I hear that! I like mine coz I could open and close it with one hand, lighting fast.I carried the Schrade Uncle Henry Stockman knife for many years when I was young. Probably because that is what my father always used. Also some Case stock knives. I stopped carrying this great knife because it was always a two-handed operation. Then I got the SOG above. I will never carry a knife again that takes two hands to use. So easy to use a kick and flip open like the SOG. And who would have figured, appears this one was made in the USA. I guess I should check to see if the others were also. I think I have four of them. Wonder if they are still made in the US. I think this one must be about 35 years old. I haven't used it for 15 years since I got the SOG.
Before, I had a similar one to my current Spyderco, but lost it (this one is better, anyways). Years ago, I actually pulled that bad boy out and flicked it open behind my back, thinking I was about to get into it near union station (Chicago). I worked evenings/nights around there, so I was walking to my car around midnight, and I though for sure I'm about to get jumped/mugged. There were always dudes like that milling around there, usually coming/leaving by Amtrak...doing some aggressive pandering and/or strongarm muggings in between trains.
Anyways, I spotted right away what they were doing, it was all pretty obvious. But then the one dude pulled the other guy away and they walked away all fast and stuff. Not for sure what happened there, maybe the one dude saw that I pulled a weapon out. But I was totally ready to start slashing and poking at them, I was like "ok then!". I was level 3 krav maga at the time, hella younger and way over-confident.