Thread: What do you carry in your pocket or on your belt

Always on me, 2 silver dollars, keys, wallet, Cell phone, and ether a Spyderco Economy I got in '84 or a Leatherman Lite I won at a DCM shoot.

The coins where to keep my hands busy after I quit smoking 14 years ago, and I still have the same two.

The Leatherman I won at a DCM shoot that I was to be grading. Turned out we needed one more shooter for the line and I drew the short straw. Problem was that I didn't have anything to shoot. One of the shooters was into WW2 reanactments and had a M1 Garand in his trunk. I was able to scrounge up the 44 rounds needed to compeat and got into position.

Now I don't know how many here shoot competitivly but this is one of those worst nightmares we have. Wake up at the shoot, get handed an unknown rifle, unknown ammo, to shoot at a range you have never been on. Well after checking out the rifle to make sure it was safe to put rounds down range, I went about trying to center the sights. I had 5 minutes till the first spoters where to be fired so there was no time to even see where this rifle shot.

I fired my 2 spoters and noted that I was about 4" right and just about 12" high. Not knowing what the clicks where on this rifle with this ammo I just played it on Kentucky windage aiming a foot low and to the right of the front sight...

I took 3rd place out of 30 shooters... I'm not to sure what that means but I feel that little leatherman was well earned

Originally Posted by DwarvenChef

Always on me, 2 silver dollars, keys, wallet, Cell phone, and ether a Spyderco Economy I got in '84 or a Leatherman Lite I won at a DCM shoot.

The coins where to keep my hands busy after I quit smoking 14 years ago, and I still have the same two.

The Leatherman I won at a DCM shoot that I was to be grading. Turned out we needed one more shooter for the line and I drew the short straw. Problem was that I didn't have anything to shoot. One of the shooters was into WW2 reanactments and had a M1 Garand in his trunk. I was able to scrounge up the 44 rounds needed to compeat and got into position.

Now I don't know how many here shoot competitivly but this is one of those worst nightmares we have. Wake up at the shoot, get handed an unknown rifle, unknown ammo, to shoot at a range you have never been on. Well after checking out the rifle to make sure it was safe to put rounds down range, I went about trying to center the sights. I had 5 minutes till the first spoters where to be fired so there was no time to even see where this rifle shot.

I fired my 2 spoters and noted that I was about 4" right and just about 12" high. Not knowing what the clicks where on this rifle with this ammo I just played it on Kentucky windage aiming a foot low and to the left of the front sight...

I took 3rd place out of 30 shooters... I'm not to sure what that means but I feel that little leatherman was well earned

Thats a neat story!

due to hip problems I've quit carrying a wallet, so I carry a small leather credit card holder. It holds my drivers license quite nicely. My cash I carry in a money clip, when I have any that is lol. When I carry a knife I either carry a small case stockman minus the case shield which was a gift from my father or a Smith & Wesson lockback"S.W.A.T." knife, marked "First Millenium Run" on the blade. Also a cell phone, insulin pump and occasionally a Yaesu FT50 dual band hand held ham radio.Sometimes there is a guitar pick or a thumb drive thrown into the mixture lol.

Back in my younger days, I carried a large bone handled Parker Imai lockback that had an eagle scrimshawed into the handle by a now deceased friend. I got to where I could grab the knife by the edge of the blade, flip it open and toss it in the air in one motion, and catch it by the handle. It was just something to do, idle hands and all that, I had no idea it would keep me from taking a beating.

While visiting in Washington State I got to where I'd take long walks, one day I rounded a corner and a small sport ute came through an intersection (from my left going right) got partially through the intersection and did a quick turn right in front of me. Four or five guys came piling out of the vehicle, not knowing what they wanted but knowing it didn't appear they wanted to be friends. It didn't look good, I weighed 135lbs soaking wet at the time and I was by myself, so I only had one option, the knife. I whipped the knife out, catching it in mid air and they all did an about face and climbed back into the sport ute and hauled butt. LOL I stood there a moment shaking in my boots and laughing at the same time.

I carry the following:
Case med. stockman
Fisher space pen bullet
chap stick
wallet
kel-tec P3-AT

Originally Posted by Jimbo

LOL! My manbag is very manly - I get compliments from all the women I meet......... ........ bugger!!

James.

As I had never heard of a manbag before I decided to look for a picture on ebay. (great source for pictures BTW).

I came across only one manbag which is this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Brown-Loop-Weave...QQcmdZViewItem

Are you serious you go out and about carrying such a thing? If so, my guess would be the women's compliments you get are because they want to have your bag!

Looking for satchel on ebay I found mainly pictures of purses!? Used too much lavender creams and soaps?

Originally Posted by SailorSam

I saw an item in the news section of Men's Health this month, and googled up some more information on it.

According to doctors at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (located right here in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina) applying products containing lavender or tea tree oil to your skin can increase levels of estrogen and decrease levels of testosterone.

In the Feb. 2007 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, they reported three cases in which young boys began to develop breasts. In all three cases, the boys were using products that contained lavender and tea tree oil. All three boys returned to normal when they stopped using those products.

On a more serious note, no longer hijacking this thread: I hardly ever carry a knife on me and if I do it is a Swiss Army knife. My pockets are full enough as they are with handkerchief, keys, wallet and often a mobile phone (an 8 year old one that's rather big, size fridge my daughters tell me).

Originally Posted by freebird

While visiting in Washington State I got to where I'd take long walks, one day I rounded a corner and a small sport ute came through an intersection (from my left going right) got partially through the intersection and did a quick turn right in front of me. Four or five guys came piling out of the vehicle, not knowing what they wanted but knowing it didn't appear they wanted to be friends. It didn't look good, I weighed 135lbs soaking wet at the time and I was by myself, so I only had one option, the knife. I whipped the knife out, catching it in mid air and they all did an about face and climbed back into the sport ute and hauled butt. LOL I stood there a moment shaking in my boots and laughing at the same time.

I had a similar experience once except I was carrying old club ( made to kill animals I had caught in traps as a child) to deal with some nasty dogs down the street and it was tucked under my coat. (CW)

4 guys piled out and came after me
I just kept walking to let them get close........

baby seal close

I beat 3 of them pretty badly, the driver in particular since I chased them all back to the Jeep managed to shut the door so he couldn't get back in to drive off.

I wonder what they told the people at the hospital??

He got hit by a car?

What the hell am I talking about?
That club goes everywhere in my car, whichever car I'm in.
Tony's story reminded me of that.

Originally Posted by Kees

As I had never heard of a manbag before I decided to look for a picture on ebay. (great source for pictures BTW).

I came across only one manbag which is this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Brown-Loop-Weave...QQcmdZViewItem

That looks like a gay man bag.
Actually, it isn't uncommon to see gay men with Lewy Vaton (SP) I can't speel
hand bags that are borderline purses.

For regular ones picture a soft briefcase with a heavy shoulder strap.

http://shop.citygirldesigns.ca/images/manbag.jpg
http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/ph...ed/manbag2.jpg
http://manolo.se/content/manbag.jpg

all good pictures

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

That looks like a gay man bag.
Actually, it isn't uncommon to see gay men with Lewy Vaton (SP) I can't speel
hand bags that are borderline purses.

For regular ones picture a soft briefcase with a heavy shoulder strap.

http://shop.citygirldesigns.ca/images/manbag.jpg
http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/ph...ed/manbag2.jpg
http://manolo.se/content/manbag.jpg

all good pictures

Don't they all look girlie or gayish?? Either I am old-fashioned (46 years old) or fashion is different across the Pond.

By "Across the pond" do you mean Australia??


Jimbo is the one who brought it up after all.

Well, right now is pretty typical for what I carry every night as I just came home from my 3rd shift hotel job. Wallet, credit card case, comb, 2 pens, handkerchief and kleenex, Molina Russian made pocket watch in a belt case, Traveler Swiss Army knife in a belt case, Spyerco Calypso Jr., key ring on a kubaton with Swiss Army Classic knife, and a Schrade Simon knife, and here's the kicker, a Smart Carry holster with a Smith & Wesson Chief's Special .38 snubnose revolver and a Spyderco Endura knife in the extra pocket. On foot I always carry an oak stockman's cane. Only had to hit one pit bull with it once. Usually dogs see it and back off; they're not stupid. This particular pit bull was so intent on killing my dog that he wasn't paying any attention to me at all. Till I whacked him.

edited to add: Forgot a couple items. A Mini-Maglite in a belt holster and there's also pepper spray on the key ring.