Mad Dog knives...

there's too many good knives for me not to take into consideration the person making them. I can get any decent piece of steel to perform; so the person behind it is something I have to think about as well.
 
marauder220 said:
Over the years I've owned an ATAK, Rat Thing, Pygmy ATAK, and A Panther. While I think they were over-priced, the Pather w/ 2 sheaths costing $1100.00, it was a very well made knife. As goes for every piece I've owned or handled from Kevin. He is very consistant from one model to another. All politics aside, if you can get one in the $300-400 price range, you can't really go wrong.
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I would agree whole heartedly even if it went to 500 or 550 but I E-mailed Kevin and he replied basically that if If thats what the going rate is, then thats what it is which is fine. He said it was up to his dealers to set their prices based on the market value of the blades. Coincidentlly, I got an E-mail from the dealer I originally contacted, Tim Tang, and he dropped the price to $ 850.00. Again, just way out of my price range.

I understand completely where they are coming from, I just can't part with that much on a single knife...unless of course if it was a Wally Hayes Tsunami... :D

Oh well... :yawn:

Vin C
NYC
 
$850 for an ATAK is so far out of line. Used I've seen them in the $300 range, new like $425-500 pending sheath options. You could monitor e-bay and see what surfaces, I've happened across some MD's on there for decent prices. I only paid $325 delivered for my Rat Thing at the end of a 7 day auction last year. It was worth every bit! As for the world-wide pricing? I believe that MD's go for significantly more to some rabid collectors over in Japan, etc. So maybe that's what an ATAK will fetch overseas, but certainly not here.
 
benchmademan said:
no honor. no integrity.

i'd be embarassed to own one.
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Sums it up for the whole crew
Some have said separate the knife from the man, just cant do it personally. Some have said he is nice in person, I wouldn’t know. When I called him on how he claims two to fives years working as a consultant for NijaCo and Tractatronics(spelling?) qualifies as being a professional solider I was banned from his little corner of the internet. I did offer to drive up to Prescott and chat with him and show my qualifications as he puts it.

Bottom line most of his knives look the same except for blade length, they don’t do anything for me. For 900 you can several pieces of good steel elsewhere!
 
whatcha talking about horned toad, not a pro soldier, the character jack bauer on "24" is based on his life experiences, didnt ya know that lol..............
 
SIFU1A said:
whatcha talking about horned toad, not a pro soldier, the character jack bauer on "24" is based on his life experiences, didnt ya know that lol..............
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No I sure didn’t, but since I really haven’t watched TV since about 2000 I must have missed it. I wish I would have know that’s all it takes to be a professional solider, would have saved me several years in the Army and I doubt my back would hurt every day. Maybe it’s the 200 knives fights that bolster his claim. I wonder what the conversion formula is? X knife fights = years of service, with 200 he is probably retired by now
 
benchmademan said:
jack bauer doen't knife fight... but he can hit a bad guy at 200 yards with his USP Compact .45 on the run :-)
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Sorry I am a horrible writer; my intent probably wasn’t clear, never seen the show but at one time Kevin claimed 200 knife fights. All my comments are directed at Kevin not a fictional character based on a fict… oh wait never mind
 
sorry... i was just kidding... as far as i'm concerned, Kevin's perception of himself IS a fictional character.
 
Horned Toad said:
... at one time Kevin claimed 200 knife fights. .
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Starting before he was ten, rough childhood, I would wonder at the definatinon of "knife fight" considering how he defines "professional soldier". Nice knives though in many respects.

-Cliff
 
Your family should make a lot of money now selling books on combat arts.

I wish I could remember who it was, his name always slips my mind, but some Scandinavian knifemaker wrote that knives aren't for killing people. They're for pinning the man to the wall while you go get your axe to kill him.

Hype is great. if it wasn't for the hype, none of the new guys on Bladeforums would ever have heard of Mad Dog.
 
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