Why do many of you hate

Now that I read the fine print . . .

Lots of us don't actually handle every knife that comes out, and I include Dark Ops as one I've never even seen in the metal. We decide from other's opinions and the things we've experienced with other knives we've owned. Quite the same process that we use choosing can openers,and cars.

Some choose spouses the same way - which might make you want to really think about the process . . .
 
I posted this 2 years ago on a different forum but thought I would share....

Strategically placed blood grooves control blood spray in covert deanimation activities.

I think I understand it now...this just in.....

Wile E. Coyote , armed with a Dark Ops knife and a pair of ACME Jet Powered skates sporting Hellfire X-11 Tactical Driving lights finally caught the road runner.
So in light of the demise of the roadrunner , no more de-animations are needed....the blood groove has now been renamed to a " Jam Groove " for Tactical Bagel Buttering Operations , tactical "jam grooves" make even distribution of your favorite field spread easy and simple durig those the black ops such as " operation butter bagel".
With Blood grooves on each side you can reserve one for peanut butter and one for jelly. Genius... Wile E Coyote SUPER GENIUS in fact.

A subsidiary of ACME , Warn A Brother Inc.

;)
 
Dark Ops....

Well. I think there a number of good concepts and conversations stubs floating around....

1. The manner in which these knives have been marketed is very likely to offend your average educated knife buyer, who will see the hyperbole and bluster, and purchase other knives, accordingly.

2. The design of the knife can only be described in the classic way, which is to use the term "Rambo Tron Ninja Death Monger 2000", but perhaps you may feel moved to change the 2000 to the year that they began marketing the knives, or the year you purchased one, but regardless, the knife will continue to be a "Rambo Tron Ninja Death Monger" that is to say, that it is a knife designed to bring out your inner Walter Mitty and or Rooney, and force him to whine at you, until you buy this knife.

3. Who cares if I have purchased/own/used/tested this knife. Any reasonably intelligent person, even those with a small smattering of knowledge about knives, will be able to point out a whole herd of really good reasons why this knife should be avoided like one would avoid a corpse infected with Ebola.

Or I could just be an elitist knife snob.
 
John T Wylie Jr said:
I posted this 2 years ago on a different forum but thought I would share....

Strategically placed blood grooves control blood spray in covert deanimation activities.


;)
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Wow! the memories. I just came back to the forum from a +/- 2 yrs hiatus. Great I see the more things change...
 
Marion David Poff said:
Dark Ops....

Well. I think there a number of good concepts and conversations stubs floating around....

1. The manner in which these knives have been marketed is very likely to offend your average educated knife buyer, who will see the hyperbole and bluster, and purchase other knives, accordingly.

2. The design of the knife can only be described in the classic way, which is to use the term "Rambo Tron Ninja Death Monger 2000", but perhaps you may feel moved to change the 2000 to the year that they began marketing the knives, or the year you purchased one, but regardless, the knife will continue to be a "Rambo Tron Ninja Death Monger" that is to say, that it is a knife designed to bring out your inner Walter Mitty and or Rooney, and force him to whine at you, until you buy this knife.

3. Who cares if I have purchased/own/used/tested this knife. Any reasonably intelligent person, even those with a small smattering of knowledge about knives, will be able to point out a whole herd of really good reasons why this knife should be avoided like one would avoid a corpse infected with Ebola.

Or I could just be an elitist knife snob.
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No, you are not a knife snob! I think he said the reasons why the majority of us do not like Dork Ops, quite succintly! Thank you kindly.
 
I have actually handled a folder and a fixed blade at my local knife store. i was completely unimpressed. Bad edge angles nothing good about them. They may look like extrema ratios but they arent even close quality wise.
 
aj1985 said:
or dislike or make fun of darkopsknives.

I'm quite new to the knife community, but everyone sure loves to make fun of these knives. can you guys explain why thats the case.

take care

aj
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To begin with, the dimwits insulted the entire collector community with their crude and idiotic ad copy. Then there is the whole theft/stealing/conflict of interest angle; and, beyond that they are still crappy overpriced junk.

n2s
 
aj1985,

As you can see, bladeforums is a collective of self appointed nannies who are quite eager to decide what is and isn't decent in the knife world, be it DO or other enemies of the state such as Lynn Thompson, Mick Strider, etc.

Just remember, this collective wisdom is worth about as much as you paid for it. Just like any DO knife.
 
Well one thing that I noticed and all, but haven't seen anybody post about it though.

So, hyopthetically speaking and all bad spelling aside, suppose you are some uber L337 black ops operator type and you are carrying it in a seriously hostile enviroment (full of evil chickens, snakes llamas and others trying to kill you), do you really want all of that "911, we will never forget" stuff on there?

I mean if captured, I'm sure that they might find use for those sawbacks for once and not exactly in the intended purpose either.
 
I have not had a chance to try one out. At the price these guys ask certainly would not pay to try one out. You can pick up a SOG Seal for $35.00less and I would be considerably more confident with a SOG when push comes to shove.

There is nothing they Dark Opps offer that can't be done with a SAK hiker and a good trail knife. I have these a-plenty and reasonable enough bush skill to see the jack of all trades/master of none appealing mostly to the unskilled and a fetish for those PVC and lykra ladies of action mags.

They market their wares as "fighting knives" whilst competitors only take it so far as a "fighting man's knife". In war very few combat situations occur using knives to fight with. Knives are more likely to be used for daily and combat related chores. A tool more than a weapon.
 
Hate doesn't describe the "dislike" or fun-poking at darkopsknives.
As mentioned earlier it was the man behind it who came under attack.
The knives eventually became ridiculed because it was the most effective way to voice discontent and support for the Italians.
In the course of time, the knives themselves became synonymous with "bad-taste".
And couldn't be taken any more seriously as with the case of it's colorfully worded adverts.
-http://www.tacticalforums.com/cgi-bin/tacticalubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000444#000019
 
.... whilst quickly trying to navigate away from this page, I gave myself a hernia

Here


Quote: "Don't let the space age curves fool you, this is one of the most ergonomically form fitting "blades of last resort" you will ever handle"


......No dork ops......... its one of many of your knives that will touch people with ailments like hernia's, migrane's, flu, AID's and maybe even a stoke / heart attack...


The fact that you actually put these knives on the net so that the world can look at them enlightens me to know that there are still people with a sense of humor in this bad bad world...


:D
 
Here


Quote: "Don't let the space age curves fool you, this is one of the most ergonomically form fitting "blades of last resort" you will ever handle"

:D[/QUOTE]

With all those extra edges that catch on clothing. Had a good laugh.
 
The original "blood grooves" were an artifact of forging - the blades could be lightened by the process and less material used, helpful on larger fixed blades.They were never originally marketed as such.

Whoever started the phrase did so decades before Dark Ops - which shows that the "good ol days" had just as much marketing to juvenile machismo as now.
 
Than again thinking about it, I would be more comfortable if one of those knives De-animated people, as compared to Re-animating them.



damn dirty zombies. :P
 
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