I just carry my Ritter RSK in it's rigid, form fitted custom sheath-AKA as my dirty jeans standing up in the corner my cat growls at. I haven't tried it against any charging bannana slugs, but it's proved capable so far. Note, for those unfamiliar with coastal redwood, mixed grassland oak vegetation, the bannana slug is either a very large, zinc cromate yellow critter seen frequenting redwoods and impenetrable poison oak or a UCSC student majoring in fascinating, but economically suicidal majors <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />