James Y wrote: ↑Thu May 04, 2023 4:29 pm
I don't mind the lanyard hole. I almost never use them, but if I were hiking, climbing, out on a boat, etc., I would use the hole to connect and secure my knife to a belt loop with a short length of paracord. I've never lost a knife, but there are always stories of people losing or forgetting knives. And for me personally, the lanyard hole doesn't make the clip placement all that uncomfortable. Does the hole need to be that large? Not for paracord. But I don't know what someone else might use.
Jim
I am one of those who is hiking and climbing AND actually lost Spydies out of my (right front) pocket two times while doing so...
Still, I think the "paracord solution" would be not for me.
- Either the paracord would have to be pretty long so that I could use the knife with the paracord still attached to the belt loop
- Or, in case of a short paracord, I´d have to retrieve the knife out the pocket AND unclip the paracord from the belt loop
Both rather cumbersome imo.
Carrying iwb or in some front pouch of a pack is not the ideal, but still better way for me personally.
On a BOAT though, where not only loosing, but just dropping the knife (into the water) is a thing, I might feel differently.
/ Even more off topic, but what I always do with Spydies I might carry rfp in the outdoors: Bending the clip "downwards", so it offers stronger retention