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4:20ChopChop

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A favorite knife brand for me. At one point I owned just about every model they make. I sadly had to sell all but six before I moved to Cambodia. But I am slowly building my collection again. Ruike has released some newer models, maybe over the past year or less. Hopefully they Keep bringing on the heat for this year.
 

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4:20ChopChop said:
A favorite knife brand for me. At one point I owned just about every model they make. I sadly had to sell all but six before I moved to Cambodia. But I am slowly building my collection again. Ruike has released some newer models, maybe over the past year or less. Hopefully they Keep bringing on the heat for this year.
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I have a couple of knives which Ruike manufactured for Boker. The build quality is very good.
This is the only one I have a picture of:

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The P831S-SA is my favorite Deka and Bugout sized EDC blade. Don’t have a Bugout any longer because of quality issues. The Deka needed after market titanium scales for me to truly like it, and it’s a gem now. The Ruike doesn’t seem to get much attention, a sleeper I guess. For $45 it’s fantastic.
 
4:20ChopChop said:
The P831S-SA is my favorite Deka and Bugout sized EDC blade. Don’t have a Bugout any longer because of quality issues. The Deka needed after market titanium scales for me to truly like it, and it’s a gem now. The Ruike doesn’t seem to get much attention, a sleeper I guess. For $45 it’s fantastic.
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I don't understand why people compare knives in budget steel with relatively soft heat treatment to knives like the Bugout and Deka.
 
DMG said:
I don't understand why people compare knives in budget steel with relatively soft heat treatment to knives like the Bugout
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Just wanted to let anyone who is looking for a really good slim, medium sized EDC blade, but doesn’t want to spend Deka and Bugout money, Ruike makes a great budget alternative knife with really good 14C28N steel and fantastic action.

If I was to compare quality, BM loses over the Ruike in my personal experience. My Bugout was off center and the Axis lock was so gritty it felt like it landed in a sandbox. If I was to compare value, the Deka needed new scales to feel like a knife costing over $50. Maybe I’m alone in thinking that the Deka scales are flimsy and cheap feeling, so be it. Don’t feel like I was comparing anything in my OP. Just offering a really good budget alternative in that size and thin profile.
 
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I've had a bunch of Ruike knives. The Jager is a great example. For the money, especially when it came out, it was a major win. The only reason that I don't use it now, besides owning a ton of other knives, is that I wore out the retention doodad on the sheath. I like it enough that I'll eventually have Kydex made for it.

One of things they had going for them right out of the gate was using 14C28N on the budget end at a time when 8Cr13Mov was the standard and Chinese D2 was still catching on. Now, we're on the tail end of that. Chinese D2 saturated the market for a while but has been (thankfully) in decline. Now, the more popular Chinese brands like Civivi, Kizer, Bestech, Kubey, etc.. have mostly moved on and have embraced decent stainless steels like N690, 154CM, Nitro-V, and 14C28N. On the latter, some of the current brands running a lot of 14C28N, like Civivi and Kubey, are definitely running it harder than on my older Ruike knives. That's not to say that the Ruike knives were bad but they did tend towards the lower end of that 58-60 range and sometimes fell below. It still worked. It was still tough and stainless. It still held a better quality edge than any 8Cr13Mov I've tried and stropped up nicely.

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Chronovore said:
I've had a bunch of Ruike knives. The Jager is a great example. For the money, especially when it came out, it was a major win. The only reason that I don't use it now, besides owning a ton of other knives, is that I wore out the retention doodad on the sheath. I like it enough that I'll eventually have Kydex made for it.

One of things they had going for them right out of the gate was using 14C28N on the budget end at a time when 8Cr13Mov was the standard and Chinese D2 was still catching on. Now, we're on the tail end of that. Chinese D2 saturated the market for a while but has been (thankfully) in decline. Now, the more popular Chinese brands like Civivi, Kizer, Bestech, Kubey, etc.. have mostly moved on and have embraced decent stainless steels like N690, 154CM, Nitro-V, and 14C28N. On the latter, some of the current brands running a lot of 14C28N, like Civivi and Kubey, are definitely running it harder than on my older Ruike knives. That's not to say that the Ruike knives were bad but they did tend towards the lower end of that 58-60 range and sometimes fell below. It still worked. It was still tough and stainless. It still held a better quality edge than any 8Cr13Mov I've tried and stropped up nicely.

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Nice shot. How was the stock sheath on your Jager?
 
I bought this one when they first came out, it cost about $40.
It's one of the few budget knives I own that if you don't know anything about knives, you'd think it cost a lot more.

The build quality is fantastic, they used great hardware all around and it has a nice satin finished blade.... it's just a great knife.

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DangerZone98 said:
Nice shot. How was the stock sheath on your Jager?
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Thanks! Not the best. It certainly isn't the worst but it's not Kydex. It's some sort of polymer and there is an adjustable tension system. The problem is that the steel slowly shaves plastic away from the doodad that creates the tension. As retention weakens from this over time, you have to screw further down to maintain it, until you just can't anymore. It's a shame because some of the other fixed blades in 14C28N coming out of the same factory get kydex or equivalent.

On the other hand, it does use one of my all-time favorite mounting options. I only see it on stuff made by Sanrenmu. If I saw them sold separately, I'd but a bunch to fit on other sheaths. It is a plastic belt attachment that can be rotated to snap into eight or so positions. It uses a little steel locking tab that you just push to release, rotate the sheath in place, and snap into another slot. So you can change from vertical to horizontal OWB or various positions in between within just a couple of seconds. The convenience in quickly being able to transition makes a bigger difference between car and trail (etc.) than I'd have first expected. Now I'm all about it.
 
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