Old school tech
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Yep, I have a couple knocking about somewhere.
They were/are called Quick Draw Sheaths and are still available.
You can also make your own.
They were/are called Quick Draw Sheaths and are still available.
You can also make your own.
sparkyv
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Never seen this. Very nice!
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Blkhrt13
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Evidence of a bygone era for certain. I’m glad to see they still make them.
kBob
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Around 1980 there was a belt sheath for the Buck lock blades that had a little metal clip one placed the tip of the blade in and then sheathed the Buck hinge down and it was almost closed. Pulling the knife from the sheath opened and locked the blade.
An friend wore such and had a situation that almost caused him to e dropped from the Commissioning program. He was assaulted by two knife wielding young men (17 and 19 and he was 20) They had open knives in their hands and were at very close range. He drew, used his guard hand to block at the bad guys knife wrist, cut just below the nearest'sbad guy's belt just over the left hip and turned bringing the knife hinge deep through the leather belt across the top of the trousers and across the right hip. The second knife man decided to leave his partner holding himself mostly together and groaning and left.
Local LEOs tried to make a big deal out of the lock blade and the fact that thanks to the sheath it was "auto Openning" it took over a month to get things straightened out with the local courts and then the US Army questioned whether they wanted and officer that disemboweled folks. this struck me as odd given that his first three choices for commissioning were Infantry, Armor, and Artillery all of which may very well do worse!
He ended up Field Artillery BTW and was not me. Same guy got boarded for suitability later for....streaking and with a crowd of his frat brothers making the front page of the local paper. ran into him a Sill later after we were commissioned and he seemed to have calmed down and carried his Buck in a "normal" sheath in uniform like a huge number of us around that time.
-kBob
An friend wore such and had a situation that almost caused him to e dropped from the Commissioning program. He was assaulted by two knife wielding young men (17 and 19 and he was 20) They had open knives in their hands and were at very close range. He drew, used his guard hand to block at the bad guys knife wrist, cut just below the nearest'sbad guy's belt just over the left hip and turned bringing the knife hinge deep through the leather belt across the top of the trousers and across the right hip. The second knife man decided to leave his partner holding himself mostly together and groaning and left.
Local LEOs tried to make a big deal out of the lock blade and the fact that thanks to the sheath it was "auto Openning" it took over a month to get things straightened out with the local courts and then the US Army questioned whether they wanted and officer that disemboweled folks. this struck me as odd given that his first three choices for commissioning were Infantry, Armor, and Artillery all of which may very well do worse!
He ended up Field Artillery BTW and was not me. Same guy got boarded for suitability later for....streaking and with a crowd of his frat brothers making the front page of the local paper. ran into him a Sill later after we were commissioned and he seemed to have calmed down and carried his Buck in a "normal" sheath in uniform like a huge number of us around that time.
-kBob
.455_Hunter
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Sound like typical Army. They would prefer a dead Cadet than one who defended himself. Kinda like CONUS AHA guards being given 3 rounds to secure the location- just enough to be dangerous to any attacker, but not enough to do any good.
I never knew such knife sheaths existed- pretty cool!
I never knew such knife sheaths existed- pretty cool!
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