New Ram Lock Microtech Socom is AWEFUL

John Phillips

John Phillips

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Alright, fair warning, I need to vent and gripe.

I had a great experience with a manual Socom Elite and I really do like it and carry it. Solid action, detent, lockup and just a really great knife overall.

Now the griping. I bought the recently released Socom Ram Lock with the finger choil because I thought I might really like it. It was $545 for the smooth Titanium model.

This thing is a POS in general and even more so for a $545 knife!!! I wouldn’t even spend $200 on this knife.

The ram lock has HORRIBLE lock stick. The knife will not close on its own after I struggle with the Ram Lock, I have to help the blade get past a clear sticking point about 70% of the way closed. It will easily fail to open without significant pressure bc there really isn’t even a detent, which I’m not used to for a knife over $500.

The front finger choil is way too big and gives even less blade to work with. I think they used Andre the Giant’s measurements for the front finger choil. The jimping on the scales are rough and sharp, like they didn’t knock down the edges. The blade is far too thin compared to the overall thickness of the handle, it just doesn’t make sense at all???

There are literally hundreds and hundreds of knives under $200 with much better action.

Big time disappointment. I will entertain the idea that I got a weird lemon and all the other ones are great but for $545 this knife is unacceptable on many levels.
 
John Phillips said:
Alright, fair warning, I need to vent and gripe.

I had a great experience with a manual Socom Elite and I really do like it and carry it. Solid action, detent, lockup and just a really great knife overall.

Now the griping. I bought the recently released Socom Ram Lock with the finger choil because I thought I might really like it. It was $545 for the smooth Titanium model.

This thing is a POS in general and even more so for a $545 knife!!! I wouldn’t even spend $200 on this knife.

The ram lock has HORRIBLE lock stick. The knife will not close on its own after I struggle with the Ram Lock, I have to help the blade get past a clear sticking point about 70% of the way closed. It will easily fail to open without significant pressure bc there really isn’t even a detent, which I’m not used to for a knife over $500.

The front finger choil is way too big and gives even less blade to work with. I think they used Andre the Giant’s measurements for the front finger choil. The jimping on the scales are rough and sharp, like they didn’t knock down the edges. The blade is far too thin compared to the overall thickness of the handle, it just doesn’t make sense at all???

There are literally hundreds and hundreds of knives under $200 with much better action.

Big time disappointment. I will entertain the idea that I got a weird lemon and all the other ones are great but for $545 this knife is unacceptable on many levels.
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Send it back buddy, life is too short to deal with crap knives
 
I have 3 of the ram locks and they all work flawless, no lock stick. I like them all. The only thing I don't like about the socom ram lock is the lack of cutting edge because of that choil but I am aware they had to make it that big so the blade would clear the ram lock mechanism when closing the blade. As the OP stated above, it does have a much thinner blade but is my lighest weight ram lock.20260130_114711.jpg20260215_035056.jpg20260215_035138.jpg
 
Microtech is a brand I will only buy in person. Mind you, I’ve never had a bad experience, but I have a dealer in town and it seems that a given knife might have a “unique personality.” For that quantity of cash it’s nice to know that personality matches my own.

I’m also lucky that my local dealer has a very good sale at least once a year. When I get extra very lucky the sale, inventory, and disposable income happen at the same time! 😁
 
The dealer is accepting the return minus a 10% restocking fee. I’ll lose $65 but that’s not the worst outcome.

I do like the idea of handling in person but my closest authorized dealer has never carried Socoms of any kind so I had to use an online dealer.

I’ll stick with my manual Socom Elite and call it good.
 
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