Benchmade dropped the ball

LukeTheSpook said:
You typed "physical athlete" and then typed runner/cyclist! Hahaha
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Yea how stupid. I meant real sports as well as exercising. Forgot to run it by my attorney to make sure my vocabulary couldn’t be misconstrued in anyway. Jokes on me I’ll wear the dunce cap
 
I apologize it was ludicrous to view an industry as anything other than blade steel designers or production numbers. I shouldn’t have claimed to be weiting it as such divine dogma. Thinking outside the box in any way shape or for is foolish. Everything is black/white right/wrong. Shame on me. May god have mercy on my soul
 
I do not consider an axis lock knife safe for exercise, carried iwb. Way to weak of a detent. I carry one of the many spyderco h1 salts and I tighten up the clip. Pacific salt mostly. You don't want a knife iwb going anywhere and the blade needs a strong detent. I do recommend carrying a knife while exercising or doing outdoor sport, especially women.
 
I get what you're saying, OP.
The name seemed odd to me when I first saw it too. If I were to make a "bug-out" bag, I wouldn't choose a light-use knife for it.

I think it's aimed at the backpackers and hikers that scrutinize every ounce of their gear. But a jogger could probably benefit from a small, lightweight knife as well.
I wish my wife would carry something when she goes out for a run, but my knives are all too big and heavy to comfortably carry for her. Benchmade Bugout does have a nice ring to it though..
 
geMKULtra said:
I apologize it was ludicrous to view an industry as anything other than blade steel designers or production numbers. I shouldn’t have claimed to be weiting it as such divine dogma. Thinking outside the box in any way shape or for is foolish. Everything is black/white right/wrong. Shame on me. May god have mercy on my soul
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535 Overly Dramatic Sports Enthusiast
 
geMKULtra said:
Bugout just makes me think one too many hits of acid or Rodney Dangerfields occular layout
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This guys an idiot, bugout is a survivalist term. Damn idiot just makes stupid drug jokes and makes up words to describe rodney dangerfield
 
It's just a name. Not a great one at that but I've never bought, kept or sold a knife because of it.
 
Kreyzhorse said:
It's just a name. Not a great one at that but I've never bought, kept or sold a knife because of it.
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Precisely and nobody vising a forum discussing knives would ever base a purchase off of a name.

At the same time those people are a fraction of financial income for the company generally speaking and competing with other companies is about new customers and reaching new demographics
 
geMKULtra said:
Precisely and nobody vising a forum discussing knives would ever base a purchase off of a name.

At the same time those people are a fraction of financial income for the company generally speaking and competing with other companies is about new customers and reaching new demographics
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All benchmades knives names just appeal to people who enjoy 2 syllable words from the glossary of a survival guide. That market was won long ago
 
Griptilian. 4 syllables. Mini-Griptilian. 6 syllables. Seems to be a portmanteau of "grip" and "reptilian." Sounds goofy. Decent knives.
 
craytab said:
I do not consider an axis lock knife safe for exercise, carried iwb. Way to weak of a detent. I carry one of the many spyderco h1 salts and I tighten up the clip. Pacific salt mostly. You don't want a knife iwb going anywhere and the blade needs a strong detent. I do recommend carrying a knife while exercising or doing outdoor sport, especially women.
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You mean as they're conventionally made. The degree of detent is totally able to be varied by changes to the tang design, and the 530 is a great example of an axis lock with a strong detent.
 
geMKULtra said:
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This guys an idiot, bugout is a survivalist term. Damn idiot just makes stupid drug jokes and makes up words to describe rodney dangerfield
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I quite liked the Dangerfield joke and agree about the term "Bugout." It doesn't make me think of "survival skills" either.

I wish they'd stop taking knife names so seriously and give them ones that entertained me: The Medford Petunia, the Ka-Bar OJ Special (comes with a pair of child's size small gloves), the Wusthoff She read your text messages with Carol from the office and snapped...
 
Does make perfect sense.
They could've called it the stamina or something athletic sounding, or they couldn't just called it the feather lite ...ect.
 
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