Flipping vs Flicking...Abuse?

Not sure what constitutes flicking. Is wrist movement, arm movement, etc necessary? Or just a really hard push from the thumb?

I use my index finger to flick open my Mili, and I never had any concern about strength. It's only at the 6-month mark though, so no really long term effects yet.
 
i call it "inertia opening" myself, and unless ya are obssesive/compulsive about it i dont think an occasional inertia is too terribly hard on a good quality knife, probably no harder on them than waving it open, imho an axis or framelock outta hold up to it for a long time, most liner locks too, IIRC most 'smiths dont discourage it, chris reeves being a notable exception, as far as why 'smiths make them to were ya can do that probably because folks like it and other than a few lockbacks i have most any liner/axis/compression/frame lock easily does it anyway, now if ya are gonna sit there and flick it all day long well sure that will wear it faster, maybe, depending on the lock.
 
I think that obsessive 'flicking' of a knife is like dry firing a firearm - you can get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later you will pay for it.
 
oh look, it's this thread again.

regardless of my own opinion, I cannot recall seeing a knife MAKER ever saying that it was abuse to flick their knives. inertia openings are an entirely different matter. the force required to do this on most knives is far greater than even a spydie drop.
 
or a " brownie pop" lol.

a lotta fols say "flick" & mean "inertia",

as far as 'smiths saying its abuse (flick or inertia)the only one i can think of is chris reeves,
 
What about autos. I have fired my Protech and Microtech AUTOS a billion times and there is still zero blade play and they fire like cannons. I flick open all my knives (no wrist action) and have never had a problem. I do know someone that uses his whole arm to sling his blade open every time on his Camillus Cuda, and now the liner lock is all effed up and touches the other scale. Don't know why he does it because its the one with the disc opener that makes it easy to open
 
A.P.F. said:
I think that obsessive 'flicking' of a knife is like dry firing a firearm - you can get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later you will pay for it.
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actually we do dry fire hundreds of times especially when prepping for a club shoot or any competition. we use dummy rounds of course, whether that matters on not. We tend not to have problems with our firearms due to dry firing.
 
singularity35 said:
actually we do dry fire hundreds of times especially when prepping for a club shoot or any competition. we use dummy rounds of course, whether that matters on not. We tend not to have problems with our firearms due to dry firing.
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Dry firing with a dummy round is a lot different than dry firing with nothing.

I guess I really don't need to flick or flip my knives open to use them, so I am not going to. Unless I am in a situation where I need my blade open right now, then I'll flick it open to save a few seconds. At the same time, custom makers and companies would not make knives with a wave feature, the spydie hole, or a flipper if it just destroys the knife right away.

To each his own...
 
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