Wow, I'm pretty suprised noone mentioned these already.
im a fairly pen literate guy, and have always went for cross, scheafer, or parker. my crosses are the the best, but i wouldnt want to lose em in an edc role, so i just carry a parker jotter. very clean, neat, and the smoothest writing pen around. (along with my crosses) but, over the years, my hands have developed pain in them now (im guessing from all crap i put my hands thru, including roofing and the army, plus, bad joints run in my family) and holding a really thin, slick cross is getting annoying.
Well, while being the radio man on my team, ive had to always have a writing instrument and paper on my person. always. garrison or otherwise. but, my main concern was writing down PIR (intelligence we were collecting in the field) at a moments notice, usually while it was raining, or in some odd position in an underground hide site.
and sometimes, it was on the 'write in the rain' paper with mud on it, from sittin by the spotter scope all day. It had to write in the cold, wet, and muddy conditions. The only pen I found to do all of this, and have a good grip, plus not be all shiny and non tactical, was a "UNI powertank 1.0". It too, like the fishers, utilized a pressurized ink reservoir. So it always wrote. Always. So I bought a shitload of em, and issued em out to my team. The ones I had, had a cap, that would always get lost.. but its all we had, so we usually dummy corded the caps to the barrels.
Now, they make those same pens in retractable 'clickers' so i dont need to worry about losing a cap. They never dry up, write really smooth, in ANY condition, have a good rubber water proof grip, lightweight, and are non reflective. The top one is the actual pen that was with me in iraq, and the bottom one is the one I carry now. Best pens Ive ever owned believe it or not.
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