If I am driving I have a vehicle kit with axe and saw and a winch on the front. If all I have is my GHB I will step over the down tree.Never had to clear a downed tree across a back road have you?
If I am driving I have a vehicle kit with axe and saw and a winch on the front. If all I have is my GHB I will step over the down tree.Never had to clear a downed tree across a back road have you?
Y'all out there with ones you don't trust can send 'em to me.
If you break the spring on a liner or frame lock
Oh my, but you have your next fixed blade to send to market, David...Fixed blade. But I'm going to bug in and protect Smokey from the zombies.
A knife can still be used with a broken omega spring. All they do it keep the release from releasing. Hold it in place or stick a stick in and break it off. I keep waiting for one of mine to break so I can try it.Sorry, sold them long time ago. Enjoy u're knives, just dont play around to much with them. The springs days are numbered.
Wont happen, at least not nearly as often as a omega spring break, and if one spring breaks the other is not far befind.
Also a liner/frame lock folder can still be used with a broken lock.
Pretty shure, if u're medium handy, u can whittle a stick to keep a liner/frame lock in place as well.A knife can still be used with a broken omega spring. All they do it keep the release from releasing. Hold it in place or stick a stick in and break it off. I keep waiting for one of mine to break so I can try it.
Granted. However use was not what I was saying, sure a knife can be used, but it will have to be used as if it was a friction folder without the benefit of an exposed tang. The point is that saying that an axis or similar lock "is bad because it can break" ignores the failure conditions. It's valid to say that a reputable liner or frame lock is very strong, no one is saying that they are not. They are however going to fail in a different way. If you like it, that's fine, if you don't that's cool too. For some people's way of thinking, the equations work out a little differently based on their experience. All I'm trying to get at is that while an omega spring break is not ideal, it doesn't render the knife without a lock. At risk of sounding absurd, I carried spare sparkplugs on my ATV when growing up on the farm, swapped many a plug to get home. I also know people who have done an engine swap in primitive conditions with minimal tools and tripod made of logs, that doesn't make those two mechanical tasks at all comparable. Yes, you could build a fire and forge weld the spring back together, but are we grapsing that far at straws? That said, if I had the time and funds, that would be a cool "what if" to try, to remake a locking bar for a frame or liner lock with just the knife itself. All I'm discussing here is practicalities or failure-modes, lets just keep it all in a bit of perspective. As I did say before, bugout might be a dumb marketing name, but that's just being redundant.Wont happen, at least not nearly as often as a omega spring break, and if one spring breaks the other is not far befind.
Also a liner/frame lock folder can still be used with a broken lock.
It is true. I’ve done did itThat's not necessarily true, depends on which Bugout and which Winkler.
Regardless, I'd rather have any Winkler fixed blade over any two Benchmade Bugouts if shit got serious.
The Bugout should be clipped to one's pocket like a multitool might be (and your firearm). The rest of the gear should be packed in your vehicle with the ability to ruck it if needed.I can't believe this thread is still going, but I guess it's what we do here.
If you think a lightweight folding blade for basic admin tasks would be useful, then go for it. To me, it would only be in addition to a stout fixed blade, not in place of it, and I can't think of anything I could do with a good fixed blade that I'd rather have a small folding blade for instead, but that's just me. I don't think this was framed as another, "if you could only have one?" exercise, so sure throw a Bugout, or something similar, in your bag.
As for the name, speculating on whether it actually correlates to literally "bugging out" is laughable on multiple levels.
The Bugout should be clipped to one's pocket like a multitool might be (and your firearm). The rest of the gear should be packed in your vehicle with the ability to ruck it if needed.