Announced earlier this year at SHOT Show 2022, Benchmade’s new 430BK Redoubt full-size knives are finally on sale and shipping to customers and distributors. Intended primarily as an outdoor/survival knife, the full-size folding blades feature CMP-D2 (60-62 HRC) [Read More…]
The traditional SOCP dagger (Special Operations Combatives Program) from Benchmade should be fairly well known by this time. In 2017 we did a Photo Of The Day with it. In short, it’s a basic skeletonized dagger with a ring on the top of the handle, with the [Read More…]
Earlier, TFB’s Editor In Chief Pete had a look at The Best Budget Blades: EDC Knives For Gun Carriers. There were a lot of comments and feedback which encouraged us to continue with similar articles. We are fully aware that the name and focus of this blog is [Read More…]
The ever lasting question about which trigger is the best just got even more complex. Violent Little Machine Shop has the perfect present for yourself, your girlfriend or wife. Or vice-versa, the perfect gift for your soon-to-be wife to get for you! Violent Little [Read More…]
I’m happy to say this is the first TFB Review in 2019 – I am sure there will be many more during the year. I wanted an upgrade for my Ruger Precision Rifle – perhaps you know that urge to improve something which is already perfect? Well that urge was [Read More…]
I don’t think Hornady manufactures the Zombie Max any longer, but I have some stock of various calibers. They look really good on pictures, like Today’s Photo Of The Day. Those with very good knowledge of firearms will notice that the magazines are for two [Read More…]
Before we get into the Benchmade contest detailed below, we wanted to open up a dialog about the possibility of having more dedicated knife reviews at TFB. Along with watches, knives and guns always seem to run in the same circles. Whether it’s an Everyday Carry [Read More…]
During September 2017 there is a large Military exercise in Sweden called Aurora 17. It’s the largest Swedish military exercise in over 20 years, and there are a lot of awesome photos and videos in the media stream. Almost 20 000 soldiers from the Swedish Armed [Read More…]
Today’s Photo is the Benchmade Nimravus in OD Green and with a fixed Tanto style blade. Not one, but twins. It’s always hard to judge the size of a knife on a picture, without a good reference. I would say that the Nimravus is a little smaller than I [Read More…]
Designed by Greg Thompson and Made in the USA by Benchmade. This is not a knife I would normally buy, but I did. Rather surprised, I liked it so much I bought another. Took a few photos of them and here’s the result. The SOCP is described as: The SOCP Knife is the [Read More…]
The AXIS Striker family of folding knives has been a successful line for Benchmade. The knives are made in a wide range of blade styles and opening types. Now the company is offering a limited edition version of the knife that kicks things up to the next level. The AXIS [Read More…]
Along with other knife companies like Kershaw and CRKT, Benchmade announced a lot of new knives and other products for 2016. Here is a look at a few of them. Precinct Family Benchmade’s new Precinct Family is a flipper style folding knife that was designed with [Read More…]
Nick Chen went on, and filmed, a tour at the Benchmade factory in Oregon with Mike St. Clair, the Lead of Special Projects at Benchmade. Mike, a knife enthusiast reveals he has been at the company for 15 years and initially took a paycut and gave up the offer of a [Read More…]
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