How old where you when you started carrying a pocket knife?

[BANG]

I remember a teacher commenting on it in grade 3 and my reply was its for peeling my apple but do not recall it being taken away at all.
So grade three but possibly sooner for me.
I am assuming that would not fly in this pussafied day and age.

[ETOWNCANUCK]

Age 12
Boy Scouts
But then what pre teen boy didn't have a Swiss Army knife?

[bison]

at 8 or nine.
At that age I routinely carried a 7" dagger as well.( i still have that blade)
I never had someone tell me i could not carry them.
But this was in the fifties when there where hardly any wussies yet

[Lefty]

Can't remember not having one so I'm guessing 4 or 5 years old. By the time jr high came around everyone except a couple town kids had a pocket knife all the time. I think I was about 5 or 6 when I got my first hatchet. It was a magic one. Had it for about 3 weeks and it magically disappeared until I was about 9. I don't know what it was with the hatchet but it had a mind of it's own and it just seemed to put marks in stuff that Dad didn't like, that I thought Dad would of been fine with.

[CaberTosser]

It was about age 8 or 9 that I started carrying a small knife, 1978-9 ish. I remember having one of those small Olfa Touch Knifes in my pocket through most of junior high.

[Talking moose]

I'm in my mid fortys, and had a jackknife all through school. Brought my .22 on the bus because I was staying the weekend at a buddy's. Nobody batted an eye. Gotta love small northern community's....

[DiabeticKripple]

Carried a 3" folding knife all through high school. Never flashed it around or showed many people so no one said anything

[Richard B.]

8 - drove my Dad crazy until he let me carry one

[CanuckShooter]

I think maybe I was born with one? Really have no memory of not having a pocket knife handy.

[Dick284]

7

[Bushmaster]

I don't remember carrying one as a kid....and I've never owned a Swiss Army knife.... but as an adult I usually have a small pocket knife tucked away . Usually find a use for it daily. And one day we got to use it to save a guys life.

[dewalt18]

I'd have to say somewhere between 8 and 10. Have had one on me pretty well ever since, with the exception of flights. . .

[Buckhead]

I think I was 6. I was raised on a farm - can't remember not having one.

[Red Bullets]

About 5. One of these outdoors knives was my first.

[cpppark]

I cant remember not having a knife, still have lots of scars from learning how not to handle a sharp knife.

[densa44]

It was a Christmas present from my Grandmother, I have carried on ever since. My mother was not pleased but Dad said it was O.K. and Granny said "A man needs a knife!" and that was that.

[Hunter1602]

I was 7,
Grampa gave me a Swiss army and told me it was to help him with the chores.
We used to sharpen up sticks, carve our name in trees, even made a bow with it.
I still have it after all this time

[thunderheart]

7 or 8 i think .. was pretty young ... few cuts ok maybe lotsa cuts ..chicks dig scars

[avb3]

I was six, and one of the last ones in grade 1 to own one.

Remember playing the splits in the school playground. There never was an issue with the teachers, they probably had their own.

In Edmonton, BTW, not in the country.

[Lone_Wolf]

I was about 10 or 11.

[Springerman]

I think I was 8, had ateacher take it away from me in grade 8. Shecwaslooking for someone who had smokes andcwe had tomempty our pockets. My Mother marched upmto thecschool and retreived for me!

[Dick284]

Originally Posted by Springerman

I think I was 8, had ateacher take it away from me in grade 8. Shecwaslooking for someone who had smokes andcwe had tomempty our pockets. My Mother marched upmto thecschool and retreived for me!

Proof read much?

[Redfrog]

Thanks for the laugh Lefty.

Summer of 1950, I was 6 and a half. I went from being a frog to "That Kid with the knife". I was a city boy trapped in a country boy's body.

It was a simple little single blade, but to me it was Excaliber.

I spent much of my time asking 'Do you need anything cut?". When I got my first watch the next year, I spent the day asking " Do you know what time it is?"
I was such a helpful kid.

Like Lefty, I got my 'Magic" hatchet at Christmas when I was 8 or 9. And like Lefty's. mine disappeared for a time as well.

When my son was about 8, I gave hima Swiss Army knife. On a monday my wife got the call from the school. "Our son had a huge knife".

Obviously this woman's husband had misled her on the size of things It was indeed average at best. She said he had shown it to his buddy. My wife asked if he had threatened anyone "No'

She then asked the principal if there was a danger of our son running through the schoolground, randomly opening wine for the other students, or worse, comparing his to his Sikh friends' kirpans.

I was trying to open one of my grandson's gifts this year at Christmas. It was in some sort of packaging that had been stapled, glued, bolted and screwed as well as welded together My DIL asked if I needed a knife.

Of course I had one, a small folder that was gift from a friend who lives in the land of the free and the home of the brave. It has a tag on it from the Federal wildlife service.

I opened the package and my son asked if I wanted him to sharpen it. Of course I said yes please. He took the knife and examined it. He asked me if I could sharpen his and show him how I did it.

The 'Dull knife lesson " was learned a long time ago.

My wife has an EDC that she uses to do 'chores' and another she carries to be cool.when she goes to the city.

I flew from south Africa, through Atlanta to Edmonton with my "Wildlife service knife in my pocket. I didn't realize it until I was in Canada Customs at YEG. No one said a word.

[last minute]

age 13

[Hydro1]

When i was right around 7.
Had many taken from teachers ect.
Now i just carry a leatherman.... Everywhere.

[Bushrat]

Don't remember not having a jackknife, we didn't have kindergarten like the town kids had so we got a couple years of building forts, fishing the creeks, climbing trees doing all the things little kids should while the poor townie kids went to kindergarten. I don't remember not having a pocket knife or remember any of my buddies not having one, even the town kids had pocket knives, it was simply a necessity growing up in the country in the 60's. How else would you whittle a slingshot, make whistles, clean your fish or trim your fingernails, etc.

Every time I see a kid strapped in a child safety seat I feel so sorry for them, They are missing out on the freedom of being a little kid riding in the back of a truck with the wind in their hair, or tearing down the hill on an old bike with no brakes and not caring if you could stop at the bottom without ending up in the creek all bruised and scratched. We never dreamed of wearing a helmet.... wtf ..is up with that. All these kids are going to grow up without broken arms or legs, poison ivy, bee stings, infected wounds, there's no more sneaking out behind the barn smoking, settin things on fire, getting the girl down the road to take her clothes off and jump in the creek or play doctor with her, there was always a girl like that in every neighbor hood, then her friend would find out and tell her mom.... then there would be a lickin you remember for the rest of your life. All of this is begotten with the right of passage that comes when you get your first pocket knife. Todays kids have no idea what they are missing.

[recce43]

My don bought one today at the arms show he is 8

[Talking moose]

Originally Posted by Bushrat

Don't remember not having a jackknife, we didn't have kindergarten like the town kids had so we got a couple years of building forts, fishing the creeks, climbing trees doing all the things little kids should while the poor townie kids went to kindergarten. I don't remember not having a pocket knife or remember any of my buddies not having one, even the town kids had pocket knives, it was simply a necessity growing up in the country in the 60's. How else would you whittle a slingshot, make whistles, clean your fish or trim your fingernails, etc.

Every time I see a kid strapped in a child safety seat I feel so sorry for them, They are missing out on the freedom of being a little kid riding in the back of a truck with the wind in their hair, or tearing down the hill on an old bike with no brakes and not caring if you could stop at the bottom without ending up in the creek all bruised and scratched. We never dreamed of wearing a helmet.... wtf ..is up with that. All these kids are going to grow up without broken arms or legs, poison ivy, bee stings, infected wounds, there's no more sneaking out behind the barn smoking, settin things on fire, getting the girl down the road to take her clothes off and jump in the creek or play doctor with her, there was always a girl like that in every neighbor hood, then her friend would find out and tell her mom.... then there would be a lickin you remember for the rest of your life. All of this is begotten with the right of passage that comes when you get your first pocket knife. Todays kids have no idea what they are missing.

Lol. Good times.

[Donkey Oatey]

I had one given to me by my Dad at about 10yrs of age. Carried it everywhere and as a youngster I collected little pocket knives. My folks would stop at little truck stops all over and bring me home a pocket knife for the collection and a spoon for my sister.

I have kept that tradition alive and for my daughter's 10th b-day I bought her a kershaw, little stinker has a better pocket knife than I do. My youngest daughter is 9 and on her 10th I will give her a quality pocket knife.

My girls hunt, fish and shoot. They may wear pink and all that but love being outside. Love being able to spend that time with them.

[anthony5]

Was 5, always had to have one handy in case your slingshot broke and needed to build a new one. Knife in front pocket and slingshot in back pocket, miss the good ol days.