I'm getting a laugh outta this stuff in this thread.
These men are elite military, who train and deploy in the harshest environments in the world. They actually live off, and by, their tools and are often required to do so for extended periods. Unlike the 'experts' here in this thread who 'survive' a trip to local grocery store with their black coated 'ninja death blades'. I would take the reviews of Special Forces men on a tool over any internet forum 'expert'.
And a bunch of 'keyboard commandos' in this forum talk about 'scientifical' testing of a knife. What a completely misplaced and rather childish take on this. I guess they have their spectrometers and the like in their 'batcave' to do high level material analysis. Unreal how silly some people on the internet are.
Oh yeah, and the president of a company being proud that elite military men chose his knife over other knives in real world testing? Men who live by their tools, and are more acquainted with harsh environments and tools to survive in them than anyone in this thread or forum. These men would bet their lives on his knife over others, and questioning his pride as somehow illegitimate or shady stuff is 'logical'? What a joke that some here think that somehow ulterior, or not a completely logical and valid thing. Though i will give this Mike guy credit for being intelligent enough not to post about it here on this forum, apparently full of self appointed 'experts', who of course can't make a knife, just lots of 'keyboard expertise'. Yeah that's really a 'logical' thought there, how 'non scientific' a man is to be proud that his actual tool, not a 'ninja death blade', and actual tool was proved and chosen by men who live by their training wits and tools in harsher environments than any here will ever know.
A company that is proud of achievements of their products is up to something? Don't anyone who thinks that a clever point bother going into any entrepreneurial endeavors. You'll fail.
And btw, coated blades are for 'keyboard experts' and 'ninja blade assassins' not actual cutting. I would have thought the 'scientists' and 'experts' here would have known that rather basic knife knowledge. I have to assume that's what was meant by "they actually wanted to cut things". This is news to you experts here? Coatings are a huge negative, very much a detriment, to the cutting ability of any knife. That's why Dozier knives, and Loveless knives, and Nealy knives, and Hattori knives, Fallkniven NL and TK knives, and apparently these Bark River knives, (I don't know the entire line but i've yet to see a coating on one) and etc. don't have coatings. They are made to "actually cut things" and not appeal to 'ninjas' and 'weekend warriors'.
Also, i saw some bad information on the choice of the Beretta as the new sidearm of the military. The new pistol was chosen for NATO ammunition uniformity, logistical reasons. The slide failures of the Beretta happened after the testing process for the most part, and they were related to the use of 'hotter' submachine gun ammo in the pistols. The SIG pistols won in the testing, that was true, and was the first choice. The contract for the military required the winner of the contract to move a factory to the US and produce the pistol here in the states. JP Sauer and sons refused to do this, so the second place pistol was chosen, the Beretta, because they moved a factory here and we now have Beretta USA weapons. This was not some 'personal agenda' or campaign by any senator. The Ruger firearm was not in the top 2.
