Fixed Blade Knife for Everyday Carry
Rob PincusDescription
Rob Pincus presents the Gideon Tanto Point fixed blade knife from BlackHawk. This is a rugged, durable knife with a solid, heavy blade and thin, comfortable contoured handle. Rob talks about the variety of applications for this knife, including law enforcement, personal defense, hunting and other outdoor uses. The sheath has a retention lock so the knife can’t be grabbed by bad guys. The sheath also allows the knife to be carried in different positions and at different angles. The Gideon handle includes a skull-crusher pommel.
No, obviously I don't generally carry a large fixed blade knife on my offside on my belt in everyday use. But if I were inclined to look for a good solid incredibly strong and durable, fixed blade to carry on my belt or on my duty gear, or maybe even out on a backpack while I was hunting, the Gideon Tonto point from black Hawk would absolutely be a great go-to choice. This is an incredibly rugged and durable knife. It's very solid, very heavy blade, but it also has a very thin and comfortable contoured handle that will allow me to get a great grip on the knife either strong hand or even with a reverse grip, as I come out with my weekend here as a support tool, secondary defensive tool. If I were to get entangled, if I were to be in a situation where someone had my long gun I was wrestling, I was fighting. I was trying to maintain control of it. Or maybe if I were on duty as a police officer, I had my pistol out. Someone were to grab it. Someone were to maybe try to take my pistol while we're over here inside of a retention holster. If I were able to pin that holster, reach back across deploy this knife and use it as a defensive tool in close quarters. This really could literally save my life. Of course, in any kind of operational environment where I'm going to be wanting to carry any kind of a duty tool that I can use to both work as a pry bar, work as a cutting tool, maybe in a hunting environment where I'm going to be thinking about maybe not the Tonto point but the actual drop blade point as a screening tool or something. You actually go ahead and clean my game. Dress my game out in the field. Again, the Gideon with its Ty nitride finish its nice contoured handle and it's great thick, durable blade would be a great option. Take a look at the sheath. The sheath has a retention lock. So it's actually got a quick release. You can see there when I grip it strong hand my index finger can depress that I come up out very easily. If somebody just tries to grab it, they can't get it out. It's good, it's locked in, it's solid. Now here I have attached to a belt could be attached to some kind of Molly gear. Again, strap on a backpack. You can configure this a lot of different ways. Set up these clips on the back with the screws so that you can carry this at a lot of different angles, horizontal, vertical, whatever it is. Again, I like the idea of carrying it on the off side. If I am in an environment where I want to use this as a defensive tool for someone tries to take my primary weapon or my side arm. Now I'm going to use the little finger use my pinky finger to depress that button with the weekend. And again, release the knife into a reverse grip for that close quarters defensive moment. Blackhawk makes great knives. They always have, I've been a fan of them. Everybody knows that I liked black Hawk equipment in general. So when I go looking for something like a large fixed blade, a tactical knife this is exactly where I'm going to end up going. The last feature I want to point out is the large what they call bone crusher pommel. This comes to a good point. It's solid, it's thick. It runs the full length. The Tang runs the full length of the grips. You're actually holding onto the back end of the blade. It's got great balance. And of course you can see it's drilled in three different places for lanyards, for tethers. If you want to make sure that this stays even more secure or you want to be able to slip your hand through some kind of a loop when you put the knife in your hand itself. The Gideon tanto point is going to be a great option for you. If you're looking for a duty tool, a camp tool maybe a hunting tool or that backup tool that you're going to use to save your life in a true worst case scenario, close quarters encounter.
The point, Rob, is simple. The Second is a right to bear arms. It doesn't say anytnihg about bearing them openly or concealed. The style used to be to carry them openly. Not so any longer.The Second, like any other right, as the Supreme Court has stated, is subject to time place and manner regulations. So all you open carriers just need to get with the times. You can't roll back the clock a hundred years or more. That's what the Islamic fundamentalists are trying to do, roll back the clock. It doesn't work, and it won't work in the United States absent a massive (and unlikely) re-education campaign to train all citizens in the handling and use of firearms. As long as you have the right to bear arms in some fashion, you are good to go and the intent of the Second Amendment has been satisfied. I'm not giving up any rights by hiding my gun under my shirt, but I am keeping the peace. I see no issue with that.
A karambit is a good choice for a defensive blade. Looks like a big knife for an edc knife.
A karambit is a good choice for a defensive blade.
I use an US Army M1 bayonet in it's scabbard.
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