RAT Pack final vote

TheGame said:
Anyone notice how many more people are posting in here now since the RAT pack became official? Or is it just me? :D
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No illusion, I've noticed a sharp uptick myself. Word must be getting out on the street or something:D
 
I have only been adding posts as I just got my two rats in the last week(Green Izula,black RC3).Could someone please let me know where I stand in the post count please.
 
thebrain said:
I have only been adding posts as I just got my two rats in the last week(Green Izula,black RC3).Could someone please let me know where I stand in the post count please.
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Looks like you have about a dozen posts in the Rat Forum.
 
i learned about the RAT knives only around a month ago, ive been a member for a while (2005) but i just started posting a few days ago and since i ordered an Izula i started getting more and more interested in the brand!

I think as the word goes out we should prepare to see more and more people around because RAT Knives offers some of the best quality to price ratio in the industry and more importantly they are destined (mostly) to users, not collectors.
And with their warranty, it's a no brainer they basically sell themselves!

Since i got my Izula two of my friends want to order one now and i will be getting at least another one and a RC3 or RC4
 
Mrs.Shotgunner11 said:
i don't understand why people dont like them:confused::confused:
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I guess I'm not real ostentatious or flashy, and don't like things that are. I like earth tones, muted colors. An orange knife just isn't me. But I'll still get one, and maybe an RC-3 military, and swap the scales. I don't know. Maybe the orange will grow on me. Who can say?
 
Mrs.Shotgunner11 said:
well.....that's an extreme way of looking at the color.........it's not like it's bedazzled. i mean if you want it to be i guess we could figure something out....;)
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True, it's not "bedazzled", but it is pretty screaming orange. Maybe if I rub some dirt on it, it'd be OK:D
 
The benefit of bright orange comes in play if & when you drop your knife in the woods. Earthy tones blend well and camouflaged your knife, where the G10 orange stands out (for the most part) and makes the knife quite visible. Using a bright color is functional more than fashionable. I learned the benefit of orange after dropping my black/black micarta RC4 in a wooded area covered with ferns. I eventually found it because I stepped on it.
 
How did the earlier outdoorsmen ever survive?
Some even had....(gasp).....wood handles.

We're lucky today to benefit from the choices and advancement in materials.
But colors mean little to usefulness and utility. That's the priority.
 
raindog101 said:
I guess I'm not real ostentatious or flashy, and don't like things that are. I like earth tones, muted colors. An orange knife just isn't me. But I'll still get one, and maybe an RC-3 military, and swap the scales. I don't know. Maybe the orange will grow on me. Who can say?
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10-4 to that. I'm trying to take Shotgunners advice and just look past the vote. Maybe it'll grow on me too. :(

Life is good...
 
onado2000 said:
The benefit of bright orange comes in play if & when you drop your knife in the woods. Earthy tones blend well and camouflaged your knife, where the G10 orange stands out (for the most part) and makes the knife quite visible. Using a bright color is functional more than fashionable. I learned the benefit of orange after dropping my black/black micarta RC4 in a wooded area covered with ferns. I eventually found it because I stepped on it.
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I understand why orange is a convenient color to have from that standpoint. That doesn't make it any more visually appealing to me. Believe me, I'm no fashionista when it comes to my knives. But there are certain colors that don't do it for me. Orange happens to be one of them. It's OK, I'll get it anyway. Maybe I'll paint it with some black spray paint!:eek:
 
We realized at the onset of this little project that not everyone was going to be pleased with the end result. Everyone has their favorites and quite a few have things that they really don't care for at all.
 
Does one have to be in the RAT Pack to get in on these knives? (I dig the orange and black.)
 
Les said:
How did the earlier outdoorsmen ever survive?
Some even had....(gasp).....wood handles.

We're lucky today to benefit from the choices and advancement in materials.
But colors mean little to usefulness and utility. That's the priority.
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I've found quite a few lost or disgarded knives out and about in the woods over the years, everyone of them had wood handles.

I've also lost a few, most likely would have had a much easier time recovering them had they had brightly colored handles.;)

Granted, woodsman of old got by without orange handled knives. They also got by with flint blades, black powder rifles and shoes without soles.

I bet when those pesky repeating rifles came out there were some old fashioned hunters talking about how they would never accept those new fangled, flashy, complicated contraptions.:D
 
I felt this way for a while. Aesthetically I like wood knives better. They are warmer to the touch and have beautiful grain. They look fantastic on the right cutlery. They can make a knife a piece of art.

But I have a few orange G10. In practical situations I have found I keep choosing them. In my non-orange knives, I end up augmenting them with a piece of really loud paracord. Its just that little practicality.....I'm one of those guys who doesn't have the 'keep it in your sheath' drill down to well. I'm eating my food and the knife is sitting there in the grass. I'm looking at some weird bug or taking a picture of some plant and there is my blade stuck in a damn tree. Sometimes I just get distracted...Where the hell did I put that thingy.....

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Now in all seriously - which of these blades is easier to see???

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