arnisador
08-26-2006, 01:00 PM
I was looking at the Nov. 2006 issue of Tactical Knives (http://www.tacticalknives.com/) magazine recently. There was an article on fast-opening (that is, assisted-opening) CRKT knives and another that I found interesting on Italian-made Kukri variants. Another article discussed the MA-1 from Miltner Adams (http://www.miltner-adams.com/). I liked the look of this blade! I'd also like a better look at its "SHARPENING ON DEMAND" sharpen-inside-the-handle method.
I'm usually not so interested in knife magazines. They tend to focus on technical, rather than tactical, matters, and I am both not very knowledgeable about the science and art of knife-making and also much less interested in it. But what caught my eye, and caused me to look at this and then a couple of other knife magazines, was the article mentioned at the very top of the cover: "STREET SMARTS: FIGHTING BACK: Beating a Hard-Core Attacker!" Thinking this would be about the tactical use of the weapon, I picked up the magazine. The article was by Kevin Martin of Bando (http://www.usabando.com/) but I found it much too general to be of interest to me. It may well have been appropriate to the magazine's audience, but I would be much more likely to read these magazines if there were more articles indicating precisely why a particular design facilitated drawing the knife, slashing with it, etc., in a combative situation.
I do like looking at the ads in these magazines, though! The ad for the Merlin (http://www.crkt.com/merlinpro.html) knife deploying holster, that helps one draw a folder into opened position, was neat to see. It looks like it'd be fun to play with.
I'm usually not so interested in knife magazines. They tend to focus on technical, rather than tactical, matters, and I am both not very knowledgeable about the science and art of knife-making and also much less interested in it. But what caught my eye, and caused me to look at this and then a couple of other knife magazines, was the article mentioned at the very top of the cover: "STREET SMARTS: FIGHTING BACK: Beating a Hard-Core Attacker!" Thinking this would be about the tactical use of the weapon, I picked up the magazine. The article was by Kevin Martin of Bando (http://www.usabando.com/) but I found it much too general to be of interest to me. It may well have been appropriate to the magazine's audience, but I would be much more likely to read these magazines if there were more articles indicating precisely why a particular design facilitated drawing the knife, slashing with it, etc., in a combative situation.
I do like looking at the ads in these magazines, though! The ad for the Merlin (http://www.crkt.com/merlinpro.html) knife deploying holster, that helps one draw a folder into opened position, was neat to see. It looks like it'd be fun to play with.