INTEGRATED COMBATIVES | Why You Should Always Bring a Knife to a Gunfight
Although the primary reason law enforcement officers (and most people) carry knives is for their everyday utility applications, they have an important role to play in the defensive weapon toolbox, as well. We have all heard it said “never bring a knife to a gunfight.” While there’s certainly truth to that statement in so far as always having a gun as your primary lethal weapon, having one doesn’t rule also having the other. There’s [...]
THE GOLOK | Choice of the Special Air Service
Many of you will recognize the name “Lofty Wiseman” as the author of Survive Anywhere Safely, although for some reason when the book was first published in the U.S., the title was changed to Survive Safely Anywhere by some moronic editor who appears not to have recognized that the [...]
AMTAC BLADES UPGRADED NORTHMAN KNIFE | Fixed-Blade That Carries Like A Folder
A knife is a tool that should be part of everyone’s everyday carry. Although folders are by far the most popular knives carried by law enforcement and the general public, a fixed-blade knife has some key advantages over folders. These advantages include ease and speed of deployment utilizing only gross [...]
SOG PENTAGON XR New Folder Designed for Self-Defense
SOG Specialty Knives & Tools was founded in 1986 by designer and toolmaker Spencer Frazer. Named after the elite Vietnam-era Special Forces military group known as the Studies and Observation Group, the company's first knife was a replica of the original SOG Bowie knife. The company now offers a wide [...]
Beast Mode! Case Winker American Hero Knives
The annual SHOT Show is not just a huge venue for buying and selling, but an incubator for building new relationships and exchanging ideas. At SHOT Show 2016 two diverse parties got together and discussed the possibility of a collaboration, planting the seeds for what would become Case Winkler American [...]
Spicy Slicers!
For Spyderco Variety Is King! Photos: Chuck Pittman, Inc. It’s always exciting to get the new Spyderco catalog. To paraphrase Forrest Gump, “It’s like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Unlike many modern cutlery manufacturers, Spyderco did not build their company on the back of [...]
Gerber Gear Center Drive
Gerber Gear announces the introduction of the Center-Drive. A multi-tool, the Center-Drive features Center Axis Tech, which aligns the full-size driver in the center of the tool to yield maximum torque and rotation. According to Gerber, it features a 30 percent larger outboard blade than other models and one-thumb opening [...]
Grass Roots Grinds!
Habilis Bush Tools photos: Chuck Pittman, Inc. Like most true blue Americans, we love a grass roots success story. Starting from scratch and building a company is the American dream. This is the story behind Habilis Bush Tools and the couple, Steven and Penny Staten, who started the popular company. [...]
