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Visited Buds looking for any guns on my list. Struck out on guns but this Benchmade model Auto Fact caught my eye.
Yes it is a auto open.
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Great score there, Arland! I know what you mean about when something hits your hand and it just feels right. Don't matter knife or gun, we all know that feeling. Sincere congrats on your new EDC knife. Gotta love those auto's!

My stash of 'em includes both flippers and OTF's from Benchmade, Gerber, Boker, Microtech, Kershaw and Hubertus in spear point, drop point, dagger point and bayonet point. My #2 son worked for Benchmade back in the late 90's and gifted me a sweet little Mini Reflex with black oxide blade engraved with "First Production Run". A true keeper.

My EDC knife with one of my EDC's. Microtech Ultratech OTF. Takes one hell of a wicked edge and keeps it. (We love gun/knife porn, right?)



Maybe we could indeed have a knife sub-forum here, sounds like fun to me. And probably yet another bad financial source of temptation.
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You guys posting about knives brings to mind the one and only “Tourist”.
Yup, me too. That was a one-of-a kind guy. If he was still on this forum, he'd spend all day on this thread and pontificate till the thread was shut down. Always entertaining though.

I have a couple of OTFs and they work fine. But one thing that bugs me about most OTFs is the blade "wobble". I get its the nature of the beast and that this is not a defect, but I like the solid feel of a flipper when the blade locks open. Especially assisted flippers that require very little effort to open.
Agree on the OTF statement there, Rama Lama. That is mostly true with a few exceptions. My findings have been that one of those exceptions is the Microtech line of OTF's. There may be others I have no experience with, but so far, that's the only brand that is tighter than a.......well, very tight, tighter than I would ever had imagined.

Also agree on the solid quick opening and virtually no blade wobble with the assisted opening flippers. I have a Kershaw drop point #1605 with their "Speed Safe" feature, and it's a real winner in all regards, especially for the cost. That puppy is wobble-free.

But now thanks to our Chief Enabler (we know who), it appears I now "need" a Benchmade Auto Fact. Way to go there, Arland, another victim!
New toys, new toys.....
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