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Blades are not for brandishing...even more so than firearms which can on occasion be used as a deterrent by a sound minded individual.

My own experience with blades has been to run from them if at all possible....much the same as from baseball bats or extremely large John Matuzak looking knuckledraggers.

I have witnessed blades both large and small used to horrific effect. Folks bleed quite a bit from broad blades and stabs....less so from razor blades.

Effective knife fighting is an art that comes from training. Other than that, it's simply a hail mary much like trying to subdue a Rottweiler with the least damage one can endure.

Sadly, for the recepient, a stab wound from a hunting size knife to the hilt in the torso is not infrequently mortal unless one recieves prompt attention. A 2" wide blade stuck in to the hilt stands a good chance of an aortic nick or puncturing a vital organ. I would rather be shot perhaps...hard to say.

Folks I have known who really lived this bonecrusher thing preferred to get their blade into the neck area on either side of the voice box and jug it around....big blood time....I have completely severed my own subclavian artery (further down the arm) and blood will indeed spurt to the ceiling. Anyone uses a knife to kill someone and they will be very lucky if they do not leave evidence of that victim's blood somewhere on themselves.

I would only opt blade if last choice or for stealth(were I trained) or if I was hellbent for personal up close revenge for something heinous...otherwise just shoot em.

Didn't OJ do all his damage with a folder?

I have a nice bar knife made near you in Oceanside....Magna or something like that with a ripcord threaded lanyard handle....very good steel....pricey.

Good BTDT insights. I think actually that OJ was using a huge "commando knife" taken from the filming of a movie about Navy SEALs that he was then involved in. The blade was never found, so that rumor has not been confirmed. If it had been found, the media would have made a lot of OJ's "SEAL knife." (I don't think it was a SEAL issue SOG blade, just that it was the bad-ass "commando knife" prop someone was using in a SEAL movie.)