Thanks
Wurrwulf
for the recommendation. I do make and have made many SOB sheaths and the knives to go in them.
This lady and her husband were some of my most ardent supporters of the concept.
Thats her husband coming in to grab the rope:
We did a show awhile back and lots of folks were stopping by the booth that were already wearing my knives and sheaths. Couple of ladies were carrying that way.
I did notice that both of them carried them off center not directly over the spine.
Salty has carried one like that for years. This Vaquero Utralite lives on his leggings belt.
He has gone to off center, edge up carry nowadays though:
Cooky carries one too:
Mostly to check the ribeyes for the crew:
I have drifted away from the recommending the concept for entirely different reasons then already mentioned here. In our cowboy world, we carry a knife most of the time for emergencies. What we call "getting western" or "real live action cowboy sh..!" Ya got horses, ya got cattle and ya got ropes and people and entanglements of an unbelievable rapidity and severity can occur. A knife back at the barn or in your pocket at these times is pretty useless. These two young ladies from MT State U were part of the crew putting on the show mentioned above. They stopped by the booth too:
I'm a strong advocate of horizontal crossdraw and here's why. In those moments, when things are getting western, real fast, the gal on the left can get her knife out with either hand and the gal on the right only with her right hand. I have been in those wrecks. I've cut three people and three other horses out of carnage in my lifetime. I want to get to my knife with either hand. That's my reasoning for the horizontal crossdraw. I vote for the gal on the left.
As ranchers/cowboys we don't lead a bubble wrapped life anyhoo: This one could get western REAL fast:
If that big calf had run up my left side faster than I can turn and face him all kinds of bad stuff can happen. Getting turned and the rope pinning up the front leg takes some of the juice out of the calf.
The wife has a lively one on too stretching her twine:
She carries horizontal crossdraw as well and for the same reasons.
The couple up above that I mentioned as the strong advocates of SOB carry recently switched to horizontal crossdraw as well.