Tip up or tip down.

Mack

Mack

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I'm talking about sheaths of course.
Are you left handed or right? Do you prefer a sheath on your strong side or weak side? When carrying both a knife and a pistol, do you have both on the same side?
Me, I'm a lefty but I'm pretty much ambidextrous. Since most sheaths are tip down I have grown somewhat used to carrying them on my weak side. It works well when carrying a pistol on my left but I still prefer tip up sheaths when I can get them.
 
I'm right handed and have some control over my left side but nowhere enough to consider myself ambidextrous. If I'm not carrying a pistol I carry fixed on my right side and folder in my front right pocket. When I'm hunting I carry the same manner with my rifle slung muzzle down over my left shoulder. When carrying a pistol and fixed blade both are normally on my strong side with a folder on my weak side. I carry my pistol in my hip pocket or small of my back facing right. I have a couple of fixed blades with sheaths that cant forward so that I can wear them on my weak side facing forward when I have a handgun on my hip, strong side.
 
Right handed. Normal carry is on right side, but if wearing a firearm I prefer the knife on the left side for a crossdraw.
 
Buck 110 on left, leather man super tool on right.

If I'm hunting my revolver goes on left hip with Buck Nighthawk either behind the revolver or on opposite hip.

Concealed the knife still goes behind the pistol which is probably behind the left hip. Mags and cuffs and maybe light are behind right hip.
 
Alot of us lefties are ambidexterous because so much is designed for righties. For me I prefer to use my left hand for shooting, right hand for blades. I write leftie, play sports with right.

However since I like to draw my knives into reverse pikal draw (waved knives) and my emersons almost all are set up for right hand carry, i have to carry my righthanded emersons in my left pocket on the seam next to the zipper to facilitate this draw. Thus I have become used to using knives in my left hand to the point where it feels equal but different from my right hand. Anyone who shoots should be able to shoot from their off hand. It is essential because you may get injured in one arm or need to fire around a corner where firing from the wrong side may force you to expose more of yourself.
 
Wait a minute Mack, you prefer a fixed blade tip up in a sheath on your belt? :confused:
Or strapped to your packs shoulder strap, or around your neck??

The only time I wear a belt is when in the woods and not every time then.
But, I am right handed and when I have a handgun on while in the woods be it in camp or wandering around, I keep the gun on the left for a cross draw and the knife on the right, tip down in the sheath.
Cross draw works better for me when sitting as it allows for much faster access and it is pretty much out of the way but right there if needed either sitting or standing.
I usually just stick whatever FB I want to carry at the moment in my back pocket, sometimes in a front pocket if it's small enough.(also tip down in the sheath of course ;))
 
I am equally comfortable with a pouch or dangler sheath on my right side, cross draw over LFP, pocket sheath between wallet and body, and rarest but occasional is lumbar, handle facing strong (right) hand.
 
When I carry concealed, if I carry a fixed blade its will be on my strong side which is my left. I also carry a folder in my right front pocket and one in ,y left front pocket as well. When I carry out in the woods my handguns are always in a chest holster and I carry my knives the same as above.
 
I tend to shoot right handed -- although I can use either hand and am transitioning to left hand for CC.
since most knives come with a wrong handed sheath, I pocket carry a lot of the time if I'm wearing cargo or carpenter/utility pants with a tool pocket on the left.
when I'm doing BP or medieval recreationist stuff I have a knife attached tip up to the baldric of my possibles bag.
 
Right handed, so I prefer strong side.

When with a sidearm, I like a necker, or I will rotate the knife sheath to 5 o'clock.

Darkmatter makes a nice cross-draw sheath that would be perfect for weak side carry when with a sidearm, but I have no experience with that method of carry.

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mqqn
 
If I'm carrying a fixed blade, it's usually somewhere forward of my hip bones (centerline) in the horizontal position so that it is accessible by either hand.
 
I usually carry both a small fixed blade and a folder. Folder RH front pocket and the fixed blade horizontal on the left front of my belt. On occasion I will have a necker instead of the belt carry fixed blade or use a static cord to a belt loop and just slip the sheath in my waistband. The last carry I do on both the strong and weak side.

If I have my vest on I carry an auto folder in a mag pouch on the right front of the vest. It's hard to access a folder in my pocket with all the other stuff on my belt.
 
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