TTv2
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I'm sure that someone's going to skip reading this first post and say, "Oh, a fixed blade is really the easiest..." but I'm not talking about fixed blade knives, I'm focusing this discussion on folding knives or knives where the blade is stored in the handle in some way.
So, I was watching John Wick (I know, terrible to use a movie as the bases for a real life thought) but I noticed that the character was using a lot of OTF knives in the movie and I'm sure much of it has to do with them looking cool, but it got me to thinking that between an OTF and a assisted open linerlock or lockback that the OTF may be the more reliable, easier, and faster knife to deploy under stress.
Am I right? Is that the whole appeal to the OTF knife is the way it deploys is superior to flipper?
So, I was watching John Wick (I know, terrible to use a movie as the bases for a real life thought) but I noticed that the character was using a lot of OTF knives in the movie and I'm sure much of it has to do with them looking cool, but it got me to thinking that between an OTF and a assisted open linerlock or lockback that the OTF may be the more reliable, easier, and faster knife to deploy under stress.
Am I right? Is that the whole appeal to the OTF knife is the way it deploys is superior to flipper?