So my girl and I went to a very high end mall together and while walking around I was fortunate enough to go into a knife show and play with a lot of different knives. I played with Striders, CRKs, Emersons, ect. I was blown away with the Hinderer knives, I had heard alot of negative things on forums and such and man those people must have never touched a hinderer. After playing with a 3 inch xm-18 (I live in LA county so 3 inch if you want to clip it otherwise it has to be fully concealed) for 10 or so minutes, I left to use the restroom. I come out and my girl hands me a bag, inside is the 3 inch xm-18 i had been looking at. I was beyond ecstatic, this knife is now my edc, my shiro tabaragan, brous ss and caliber, and utx-70 ca are benched for a while.