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You probably like knives.

Heck, if you're a man, you probably like knives.

Right, it's not a shall not like if you have a bunch of testosterone you will like knives.

But I see a pretty common correlation.

We're gonna talk about knives today.

What are the three knives I would have if I could only have three knives?

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All right, recently did an episode on gunfighter life.

If you're into guns, but not everybody's any guns.

Some people are French, some people are Canadian.

There's a lot more people into knives than guns.

I'm gonna put this out here on Alpha Male podcast.

Just kidding.

I'm sure there's a Frenchman or two that has a gun, and Canadians can't have guns, although far far less than here in America.

But I did if I could only have three rifles, and that would be a sad day.

But if I could only have three rifles, I talked about what three rifles those would be, and why let me do that today?

Here on Alpha Male with knives, I'm gonna start with the knife that's on my hip, the knife that I EATC.

Now, I DC a fixed blade.

Most men that EDC a knife.

Hopefully most men EADC a knife, and I think most men that do carry a pocket folding knife.

I years ago got rid of that.

Generally, sometimes I will if I'm going to a very restrictive state.

Some states on all ages has just have restrictive gun laws, they also have restrictive knife laws.

So sometimes I do have to carry a folder, But generally I carry a fixed blade.

One of the reasons I get into this I have a bit of bladed fighting training experience, and I was a commander of a tactical team, and I was setting up my war belt and other things, doing hand to hand combat and like ground fighting with a gun with my war belt.

Sometimes your gun can get pinned when you're wrestling fighting around.

A lot of fights end up on the ground.

You can't just pull out and just bust caps.

That's hollywood.

I was in law enforcement for a long time.

A lot of fights end up on the ground.

Sometimes your gun can get pinned sometimes a gun.

Trying to get your gun out could be more dangerous for you, and keeping it locked in the holster wits every tention technique like shoving your elbow hard into the person's hand or whatever.

In such cases, I like to carry a knife another tool, this case a knife a blade on my left side.

I'm right handed.

I carry my knife on strong side hit or carry my gun strong side hip, so I carry my knife more accessible with the other hand.

For this and other reasons.

In doing that rolling around ground fitting, I realized, in a decent amount of time and somebody's trying to hurt me or kill or kill me, it's hard if my other hand is tied up too often, quickly and reliably deploy a folding knife from my pocket a lot easier to grab and go with a fixed blade knife.

For that reason and the reason that fix blades are just simpler, less moving parts Simpler is often better when it comes to survival situations.

I like the EDC a fixed blade knife.

The one on my hip right now and one of my often carried is the Demco Knives Arminger.

I don't take sponsors right this is an Arbinger four.

I like a clip point blade.

They make a bunch of different styles.

Think they even make a tonto.

I like a clip point blade.

Kind of my two things that need to check a box.

Which all these knives, the three knives I'm talking about today, will It needs to be able to skin a deer or an elk.

And I could skin a deer an elk with a rock.

What I'm talking about If you were like if I was guiding, okay, but you got to take this knife, I'd be like fine, And that would be the same with all the knives on the list.

Be fine.

And it has to be stout enough and strong enough and long enough, be a decent defensive knife.

Like sure, I could fight with a rock, I could fight with a newspaper, to fight with a sock full of pennies, but it's big enough that it's a decent fighting knife as well.

Those are my two criteria for pretty much any DC knife.

This Demco ar Binger four is kind of my favorite go to DC knife had a great grippy handle, doesn't have finger grooves.

I can't stand finger grooves if you're holding it like the regular way, But what if you're holding it if you have grab in a reverse gripp or you're doing some kind of other technique.

Finger grooves are paying the butt to me on guns and knives, So no finger grooves.

Also two of these, my kremvila Krem one is in magna cut steel, which I really really like to have a more general let's call it the beatter knife.

It's not a super so it's just a regular steel.

Forget what kind of steel, but it says here on the blade it says eight CRV two or eighty CRV two.

It's a little used, the basic model, not crazy expensive.

It's got a good sheath.

It's a good knife.

I like the clip point.

I like it for it's more stabby.

For lack of a better term, tontos are also very stabby.

But it's also I like being able to put my finger all the way on the tip of the knife if I'm reaching up inside an elk inside a deer to pull out the heart deliver some of my favorite consider more of a trophy than the antlers because I'm not eating the antlers, but I like that design for that.

The tang goes all the way to the back and sticks out the back so I can beat stuff with it if I need to.

It's light, it's handy.

I'm not gonna look up the specs, but it's the four inch.

It's very light, very handy.

Good sheath comes with a decent frog.

A frog, if you don't know, is a thing that attaches a sword or a knife to a belt.

It's a good sheath, and I have a lot of good knives that I don't generally carry cause I don't have good sheats for them or the sheets they're just not optimal.

It's a good one, and there's different designs, but yeah, I'm gonna start off with that one.

The next one I'm gonna talk about no surprise as a Marine Corps infantryman.

The k Bar.

Now, the k Bar is a fantastic knife.

It's a big knife, but surprisingly not very heavy.

Like I have a pretty big s see and it's a heavy knife.

The k bar is a bigger knife as far as like length, and I think cutting edge, but lighter.

It's a light knife and people might think, oh it's it's not a full tang knife.

They've been issued marines for a long time.

Marines break a lot of stuff.

There's like that old joke you put them marine on guard duty with two ball bearings, two bowling balls.

You tell them to keep them safe, and in the morning one's lost and one's broken.

Right, if they can stand up to the abuse of Marine infantrymen, they're a decent knife.

I could do a whole pot podcast on the story of the k bar.

But I love the k bar.

Carried one in combat.

I have one.

It's a good pack knife.

It's a good like I carry one of my plate carrier.

It's not a great DC knife.

It's a bit big for that, right.

Offen Toyd around with the idea of carrying a mini k bar for my EDC, but I don't have one.

The ARBN Gerfer I talked about clip Point is very close to a mini k bar, but the k bar just a classic US Marine Corps K bar stack leather handles.

There's a bunch of variants of the k bar.

Might be worth having one in some kind of super steel.

I think the regular k bar is ten ninety five coded, which is just fine.

And it's an adaptation of a classic, a big hunting knife, so it's also a very good hunting knife.

It's a it's an adaptation when the military needed fighting knives of a fairly popular design, as I understand it in k bar history, a pretty big hunting knife that was around at the time.

It's a good be a good hunting knife, a good again.

The Marines do all kinds of stuff with including you know, finding land mines, finding land mines with a kbar or a bayonet, right, do all kinds of stuff with it.

It's a good design, the kebar.

I don't think I have to give a lot of justification there.

It's such a legendary knife.

The last one would be no surprise if you listen for a length of time, and it's going to be a folder for the times when I can't have a fixed blade legally or whatever.

And it's the Buck one ten slim.

Now the Buck one ten is also a classic, but I don't like the classic version of the knife, think it's a bit dated.

It doesn't have a pocket clip.

You'd have to carry it on a little pouch on your belt, which is fine but not my preferred.

If I'm gonna carry one, I like to carry it again left side, because I carry a gun on my strong side hip and I like to train with my knife in pretty much the same place.

But it has a pocket clip.

The buck one ten slim has a pocket clip, which I like it also.

It's as an aim to know as much slimmer more modern materials.

It's a I think four to forty seed, but a very good heat treat blade for the basic one.

Used to have one in a super steel that I don't have anymore, but if it was going to be one, I probably if I was only I have three hours, might as well get the super steel one I think had on my car to handle.

But the buck one ten slim it's big enough.

Even though it's a small, very lightweight, handy you'd probably barely notice in your pocket.

You could carry it and run with it and you know, workout shorts at the gym.

Very light handy knife, also long enough and big enough.

It's a hunting knife too, again skin a deer and elk process.

A deer and elk of one of the common knives would carry when I was guiding a bunch of other stuff I had to carry.

It's a good all around knife.

If I had an elk down and you gave me a Buck one ten slim and it was sharp, and you were like here, I'd be like fine.

I wouldn't be like, oh no, I got to have my whole kit.

It's a fine knife, and it's definitely good enough for defense.

Buck one ten, the regular version, has been around a lot longer.

It also has a very storied history, a very very good knife and again light handy.

There's probably some states where even the Buck one ten is not legal.

You live in such a neutered state, you might look at the Buck one twelve.

It has a slightly smaller blade.

I think some states have like a three inch limit.

Buck about anyway, let me not get into that.

But the buck buck one twelve, I think, same handle, same thing I talked about design, but a little bit shorter blade if you live in such a place.

But the Buck one ten slim it's a phenomenal life.

It's light, it's handy.

If you're looking to get into the world of edc and carrying a knife, I'd really recommend a Buck one ten slim.

There's a ton of folders out there.

If you've got your favorite flavor and I didn't mention it and it works for you and you like it, rock on.

This is like if I could only have three knives, and if I had those three knives for the rest of my life, you know, I think I'd be okay.

I think I would be okay.

Anyway, I hope you guys liked this episode the guns thing.

Check out Gunfighter Life.

But your tactical tip of the day, all right.

I don't often do just products for tactical tip of the day, but if I can only have one knife sharpener, it'd be the work Sharp guided field sharpener looking right now in the Year of Our Lord twenty twenty five on Amazon under forty bucks.

It's a good sharpener.

It's got a coarse a medium, it's even got real fine ceramic.

It's got the twenty degree guide, which is real common for knives.

And if I could only have one sharpener, it wouldn't be an old school Arkansas wet zone.

It would be this.

I do like super steels, and those can often be a challenge on a traditional stone, but with a good diamond stone, it's a good sharpener and it's forty bucks.

Got a thing on there so you can sharpen serrated edges, which I didn't mention today generally don't eadc or generally don't although they have their place, it's got to st on the back.

The scramming things even got a thing for like sharpening fish hooks.

It's if I could only have one sharpener and you said you had to use that one, fine, I'm fine with it anyway.

With that, guys, that's going to bring us to the tactical verse of the day.

Deuteronomy thirty three.

I will take vengeance on my adversaries, and I will pay those who hate me.

I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives.

I'll give you a bonus one also one of my favorites, Exodus fifteen.

The lord is a man of war.

Thanks for listening, and have a blessed day.