The Gun Counter

They seem like they would be uncomfortable and impractical to me….carrying a defense knife on a lanyard around your neck. Some of you apparently swear by them. Let's hear the pros and cons.

Cut Away!

I don't use one, but I would assume that you would get used to it like anything else that people wear around their neck.

I guess depending on how you dress it would be easier to conceal it and might be easier to get to. Also, if someone is accosting you and you go for a pocket they might assume you are going for a weapon. If you start grabbing up your shirt they might think your some kind of nut giving you some psychological advantage? That, and it leaves your pockets free for more crap.

I have one. Check out this post (good thread, too):

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showt ... ost9882402

The one I have is the Swamp Rat Swamp Warden, though mine has a black coating. Same Buy Brown kydex. I put a breakaway paracord lanyard on mine.

I don't wear it for defense (well except the one time I had to pick someone up from Newark airport after midnight) but rather as a 'just one extra' knife, belt-and-suspenders kind of deal. You don't always need it or want it, but when you want an extra knife it's in a place it's not going to snag on anything, it's only mildly awkward to reach, and you are able to maintain a positive sense (because it's sitting on your sternum between your manly pecs) that it's there.

Duck hunters in chest waders have been known to wear them. Personally I think a better option than cutting your waders off is to wear the PFD inflatable suspenders.

A neck knife would be the quickest way to stab your eyes out in the event Hillary Clinton decided to do some twerking on national TV.

I would only carry a neckblade for convenience, not for defensive use.

JustinR wrote:A neck knife would be the quickest way to stab your eyes out in the event Hillary Clinton decided to do some twerking on national TV.

Your logic is unassailable.

Netpackrat wrote:

JustinR wrote:A neck knife would be the quickest way to stab your eyes out in the event Hillary Clinton decided to do some twerking on national TV.

Your logic is unassailable.

MIND BLEACH!!!! ARRRRGH!!!!!!!!!

Never carried a neckknife, but when I was working with thr PD I had a couple small, but useful items squirreled away throughout my gear. One was a zytel fixed blade knife riding behind my trauma plate. Never used it, but it was dependable for sticking, weighed nothing, it was highly likely to be missed in a search, and was cheap enough to be free. I would roll with it again.

Steamforger wrote:likely to be missed in a search

Why I did, and it was during training. At least with the inexperienced.