Battle Rat Handle??

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lowlux

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is the battle rat handle as tuff as the blade its self?? the blade can cut rock? but can the handle take a hit by the rock?? or sun.. or water.. or heat? camp fire...
 
Bash away my friend. The Res C can take it. :D :thumbup:
 
You shouldnt stick your Rat in a campfire. Res C is tough, but it isnt FireProof. I have no doubt it would melt if you stick it in fire. That said, I love the Res C handles!
 
Actually, I think you would be very surprised here, as well.

I won't get into particulars, but let's just say that I had a howler bounce off a tree and fly straight into my campfire. Dead center. I dropped to the ground laughing.

It took the others about 15-20 seconds to fish that blade out of the embers, which really is not a short amount of time when something is in the fire.

Granted, there are a lot of things that could have gone wrong here -- like the resiprene melting, messing up the heat treat, etc. But once we fished that howler out of the fire, the only visible change was a little bit of glossiness on a small part of the res C, and a scorched lanyard. :D

The resiprene didn't melt or disfigure like I would have expected. :eek:

This resC is pretty amazing. Don't hold back on it. :thumbup:

:D -360

From one of Cliff's posts:

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Now thats some tough stuff! Thanks for the info! I think I will still keep my Rats clear of the fire though :foot:
 
I was lucky enough to receive my first Swamp Rat knife recently - a Desert Battle Rat. Lemme tell you -- as if you didn't already know -- it is one mean lookin' Rat! Can't wait to get out and use it to experience the true beauty of this knife.

The Respirine-C handles are as comfortable as they appear in pictures, and based on reports like these, very comforting as well. :)
 
If you hammer on them repeatedly with a ... hammer... or something, you can split the handle material at the point of impact, but that's actually pretty easy to fix.. and is covered by warranty if you really want it to be. To fix it you can actually use fire (carefully applied) to heat up and reseal the cuts in the handle.
 
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