Cold Steel Strider rip-0ff

I think I'll take a break from this thread until I see an explosion of posts. That will likely indicate that something important has transpired.
 
Oops, I've been outed. Yep, it's true, I emailed McClung and requested supporting documentation from him.

I've put together a 16 (EDIT: 17 now) page document in Word so far, detailing the claims that Mick Strider has made, and supporting evidence documenting falsehoods.

Contrary to McClung's claims though, I prefer not to go off half cocked. If I can't document it, I'm not going to make some half assed allegation, accusation, or proclamation in this matter. I'd prefer not to be on the receiving end of a libel & defamation suit because I can't document something I'm putting my name on. It was Mick Strider's claims that he was to be sentenced to serve in Somalia for his carjacking that convinced me enough was enough, period, full stop.

So, Mad Dog can hide out over on TacticalForums and rub his hands and intimate that I'm up to something nefarious. At the end of the day, I know where I stand. If anyone can disprove anything I have said thus far, i will immediately and wholeheartedly offer a retraction.

Otherwise, McClung's little tirade has no bearing on this matter and just shows what everyone else already knows about him. I have a much different memory about how people view his credibility regarding issues. And despite his flaws, I at least had the integrity to acknowledge his role in bringing this situation to light.
 
I anticipate it being removed at some point soon.

Mad Dog and his other half have always seemed quite the loons. That link just confirms it.

Say what you want about Spark, but he did put together the biggest, longest lasting knife show on the net. That is bigger than any one maker.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Whoops.

Going to that thin-skinned egomaniac for any kind of help was a mistake.

Mr. Electric Rifle reigns supreme over at his Poop Island ghost town.

Did you really think he'd cooperate without demanding some sort of stroke job?
 
Yeah well, when he & his wife called me up begging me to bury the hatchet last year, I guess I should have been the bigger man instead. Oh well, such is life. I guess I'll just have to push my timetable forward and add additional supporting documentation as it becomes available.
 
Micky said:
CS ad copy does not mention Strider or Strider knives by name.
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I already commented about this. If I could answer the simple question you put forward, I would. But honestly, only someone who knows very little about knives and those who make them would not recognize the knife that LT "copied."

The instant I saw it on the CS website, I recognized it as a Strider knife.... and then I read the comments and put 2 and 2 together.

If I said the current President should be doing a better job, would you honestly not know who I was specifically refering to? Same thing with the ad. Knowledgeable folks know exactly to whom LT was refering to.
 
Mick supposedly served from 84 to 86. Any claims he was in SOCOM would then be bogus as USSOCOM did not exist at that time, it was formed in 87.

I have no idea what this being sentenced to serve in Somalia is all about, but no US civilian or military court can impose such a punishment.
 
I seem to recall the plot within the plot for the Seinfeld sitcom where George to be sentenced by the Judge to be a Butler for damages done and crimes commited.
Maybe it was similar? :rolleyes:
 
I just finished reading all the lies and bull shit coming out of strider, I had no friggin Idea. I served in the Army infantry, I would never tell anyone I was a super ninja. thats just wrong. I can't say that cold steel is "right" in there tactics, but I can say that strider IS WRONG in theirs. Thats my 2 cents. I still can't believe anyone would buy this guys knives after knowing all the BS coming out of his mouth.....wow. If I had bought one, which I almost did, and then found this shit out, I would ask for a refund, ...what a friggin liar. read the post..it takes a minute, but it puts strider knives in a whole new light.:jerkit:
 
gunknifenut said:
I still can't believe anyone would buy this guys knives after knowing all :
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Well, there comes a time when you start to value a "thing' apart from the hype ...

Example,
When my wife and I were about to get married we found that the officals of the church we were members of at the time had this strange rule against allowing people to play the traditional Wedding march .

At first I thought they had to be kidding.
I mean really....whats a wedding without hearing "Here comes the bride"?

But then I saw they were not kidding....and I got a little ticked-off because I felt this had to be the most silly rule for a Christian church to invent. I felt at the time that getting married was enough stress, I didnt need the church adding to my stress load.
I went to the church and I asked what the problem was?

I learned that the person (Now long dead for over 100 years I think) who is given the credit for the Wedding March was likely gay (or something like that, I forget what the real problem was that he had in his personal life) so thats why the church would not allow his music played.

At first I supported this....
But then I got to thinking that about all the music we now think so highly of, was likely writen by men who could well have lived lives of questionable moral value at times.

I just felt that you got to be able to judge the 'thing" apart from the "maker" of that thing....

I believe the same is very true with our knives.
When I look at a knife I dont care who made it, I dont care if the guy was a nice guy or a real jerk.
The knife has to be able to speak for itself apart from any and all hype around that knife.

I dont care if the knife was in a big RAMBO movie, the blade has to still speak for itself apart from the hype.
I dont care if blade "X" was made by a good husband, while blade"Y" was made by a loser...it cant be part of the testing and judgement of the knife.
 
That is an excellent analogy!!!

What if the story had been that the guy buggy jacked stage coaches at musket point?:eek: Then wrote the song in jail!
 
hen wrote the song in jail!
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No an accurate analogy would be he wrote the song in jail, and while selling it told everyone how he wrote it during in the moment of religious rapture.
 
yes perhaps, and in the end, after you dig around all the hype and claims and counter-claimes, what a person has to do is judge the thing on it's own.

You cant allow hype of bad press to twist you into bad judgements.

If my wife wanted the song, it was my duty to get that song...case-closed.
 
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