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Interesting how as many people own expensinve, exotic knives -- yet ask them what their favorites are and over and over you see Cold Steel, Buck, Becker, KaBar...
Give me a $50 Smith & Wesson Homeland Security 13" long, 1/4" thick tanto in TiNi coated 440C with G-10 scales, and i would go up against almost anyone with anything. Those things can out-chop/ cut/ pry/ dig/ stab/ everything-but-delicately-fillet pretty much everything custom or production on the market at any price....
Maybe a similar-geometry differentially-hardened 5160 or 9260 could kick its arse... until we went island-hopping...
Give me a $50 Smith & Wesson Homeland Security 13" long, 1/4" thick tanto in TiNi coated 440C with G-10 scales, and i would go up against almost anyone with anything. Those things can out-chop/ cut/ pry/ dig/ stab/ everything-but-delicately-fillet pretty much everything custom or production on the market at any price....
Maybe a similar-geometry differentially-hardened 5160 or 9260 could kick its arse... until we went island-hopping...