Can you really trust your life on Swiss Army Knives...

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Lanceman
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Re: Can you really trust your life on Swiss Army Knives...

Post by Lanceman » Tue May 28, 2013 11:13 pm

I have owned one, and still have that particular one, for almost 40 years. That one was a basic with just two blades, a can and bottle opener, corkscrew. Since then when funds have ramped up have acquired at least ten more, from the champ, cumbersome but nice to have; through to the smallest which is now my EDC. They are simply too versatile and well engineered to give up.
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Re: Can you really trust your life on Swiss Army Knives...

Post by TwoRivers » Wed May 29, 2013 9:19 am

Well, once upon a time when I snapped the blade on my Puma hunting knife trying to part a moose's pelvis, having a SAK Camper along saved the bacon. The little saw cut through the pelvis, and the large knife finished the skinning and did the quartering as well.
Should have enshrined that knife; as without it I could not have saved the meat. Normally I carry a spare knife, but the circumstances of that particular hunt had been such that the only back-up was the SAK Camper.
The little blade was perfect for digging out splinters, but an idiot acquaintance asked to borrow it, and before I could stop him used it as a pry bar, twisting off the tip.

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