3.8 in. 7Cr17 high carbon stainless steel blade with ABS material handle. Over all 8.0 in. long. Includes nylon/fiberglass sheathATTRIBUTES Blade Detail: Plain Edge Blade Length (inches): 2.50 Blade Material: 440C Black Carry System: Boot Clip Sheath Handle Material: Aluminum Black Overall Length (inches): 5.75
$ 21.64
A Boot Knife that is LEGAL!! (I ordered a second one.),
HERE’S THE BOTTOM LINE: There are plenty of great boot knife products on the market, if you want to carry what is legally considered to be a “double-edged dagger”, and is therefore ILLEGAL to carry in many states and jurisdictions. This SWHRT1 HRT Tactical is single-edged, not too long, extremely well made, feels good in the hand, has thumb gimping on the spine, has a full tang, and has a deep finger choil to protect you from hand slippage when performing either a thrust or slash cut. The blade is thick, and the scales feel better in the hand than some knives that cost five times as much. (Yes, I have a collection.) SHEATH CHALLENGE: I understand why some reviewers describe problems with the sheath being too tight. However, this can be remedied. Specifically, the first time you extract the knife, do NOT try to pull and pull to remove the knife. (It is dangerous…DUH!). Instead, carefully spread open the plastic sheath where the semicircular molding grips the finger choil, just next to the blade edge. Spreading the sheath at this point will enable the knife to slide out with a firm pull. Using a fine-grained metal file or fingernail file will allow you to carefully reduce the semicircular molding that grips the finger choil.
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|I don’t know about the other 2 reviews,
The other two complaining about how “hard” it is to remove must be pansies, Yes, the sheath has a good hold on the knife, but that is how it is supposed to be! Would you rather have a knife that falls out easily? I use it as a utility blade when I go hiking, and have it hooked to my backpack (hanging upside down, grip down that is) and I can rip it out very easily, you cant “gingerly” take it out, you gotta rip it out! I give it 4 stars for the fact that I haven’t found a way to use this as a “boot” knife. But it is thick steel, very well made and is a great camping, hiking, emergency tool. Just don’t be a pansy when taking it out of the sheath, and you will love it too!
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|SWHRT1 Floatation Test Results (Official Release),
Initial Water Contact Resurface Time — 0.00
Initial Floatation Time — 0.00
Sustained Floatation Time — 0.00
Depth of Water Body Used For Testing — +/- 25ft.
Total Depth Reached By Product Tested — +/- 25ft.
Time To Reach Total Depth — 4.825sec.
In other words, if you drop this knife in a river or any other body of unfrozen water (including ditches, pools and mudpuddles) it will sink… fast and all the way to the bottom. Yes, I too was surprised but this was my experience.
Okay really, this is my second one of these knives due to the abominable floatation efficiency of the first. It’s a very, very good knife regardless of what it does when you drop it in the water. If it weren’t I’d certainly not have bought another one.
No need to go into alot of detail about the knife. Plenty of that going on already but I will say that it is extremely well designed and manufactured. It’s nearly 1/4 inch thick, sharp and LEGAL. It just doesn’t float worth a tinker’s damn. The sheath I gotta stick up for just a little bit.
It’s not that bad and certainly no justification for passing on the knife but it could have been better. To me, almost any sheath design not made of leather is a poor substitute for one that is. This one is no different, however, it is sturdy and not at all hard to draw the knife from. A slight push on the top of the sheath, in front of the thumb gimping pops it right out with no trouble. The clip on the side is some form of plastic instead of the superior spring steel but it has a barb on it that grabs so tightly that it can sometimes be frustrating trying to get it off of yourself, especially if you have it clipped into a jeans pocket where I usually keep it. Kind of a pain but you can count on losing the knife before you ever lose the sheath. I guess that could be seen as a good thing.
As usual, we lefties are left (no pun intended but I’ll take it) out in the cold again when it comes to sheath design but if you’re like me and have absolutely no use for a knife way down at the bottom of your leg where you keep your foot and under your pant leg (where it gets in the way of your gun) you’ll want to keep this thing at either belt or pocket height where it’ll work left-handed. I put it in my pocket with the clip on the outside and in this fashion it works as if it was a left-handed sheath. This is the best way I’ve found to handle the victimization and oppression I experience at the hands of the evil, rich capitalists and until I can find someone to blame for it, and more importantly to give me free money because of it I’ll keep doing it this way. I’m sure you could do this in your belt as well or in your boot but it would probably be very uncomfortable.
All in all this knife is probably the best, most useful and practical knife in it’s class and definitely worth owning whether you need it or not but when it comes to sharp objects or dangerous things in general what does “need” have to do with it?
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