Great blade for camping or hunting and clearing trails. Solid blade, highly recommend it for a work horse blade. Use a good sharpening stone and it will be reliable every time. You MUST use sharpening stones for the best performance
I can't wait to add this to my collection of folding blades I don't have many at the time of the comment but this is coming to me in the mail and I can't wait
I would buy a fake all day long...I'm not paying 150$ for any knife...besides you can't actually use it if it gets lost or damaged or even stolen it would be devastating...a clone you can replace and not hurt...benchmade is an inflated brand and I'm not biting...sorry
After doing a full cleaning, did the rust on the inside hardware come off very easily? Or did it take a little bit more work to get rid of the rust on the spring? (Inside hardware)
830 fps is great for what he likely spent. I paid a LOT more to get 900fps + at 1800 rounds a minute. You could slay a deer with a well placed three round burst (at archery distances). That was documented by an owner of a the same guns as mine. Some fellow was modifying and selling these Drozd Blackbirds for over $900 if you got most of the best options. You could obliterate a full size CINDER BLOCK in short order. This was NOT A TOY. And it was VERY loud. Needed a functioning sound suppressor.
$117 for BM that’s not even sharp? Nope. Will get the China version in D2 for $16 from Ali Express. The whole purpose of this blade is to poke holes in things, you’ll never put enough force on it to break it.
Just picked one up as a little experiment. Manufacturers wised up a bit: The box I got was similar to the real one here. The knife also had copper washers instead of the plastic one. And the manual was folded more like the real one. The hardware towards the clip was colored like the real one. And it came with a little Axis card. The standouts tho were that the knife was just seated on top of a foam platform, not nestled in a cutout made for it. The stopper was still black. The manual was messily folded and did not line up with the seams. The S30V print was farther from the thumb stud like the fake one here. And the R next to the butterfly was bigger like the fake one here. Oh, and the spring was trash-does not flick all the way open at all. For ten bucks, not bad. Still cuts like any other knife. Will definitely make a nice prank on my knife snob friend.
What the heck is a "blood groove"? In larger blades like swords this is called a "fuller". It's purpose has nothing to do with blood. It is to lighten, by removing unnecessary material, from the blade or simply for aesthetic or tactile feel if you are feeling for the blade "in the dark" so if you are reaching for it and you feel it, but you're completely blind or something. With large 2lb plus weapons like swords it is strictly used to remove material to make the sword lighter without compromising any structural integrity. "Blood Groove" is wild and I have no idea why they call it that.
