Assisted Open Knives Are Excellent Surival Instruments

A assisted opening knife is a knife that has been fitted with a opening mechanism and is simpler to open than normal folding knives. These knives can have a ridge or thumb stud as well as a hole that provides your thumb traction. By pressing outwards, the blade starts to extend and unfold. As it reaches the threshold point, the spring mechanism of the assisted opening knife extends the blade fully. Additionally there is a lock that you must unlock to collapse the knife again. All of this can be done with one hand.

All the major knife brands produce these kinds of knives. Buck has several, like the Buck 295 Tempest which has a 3 1/4? stainless knife complete with thumbstud for triggering the opening. You will find similar knives within the product lineup of almost all major brands. Benchmade, SOG, Smith and Wesson, Gerber and Kershaw are all brands which will supply you with a good assisted opening knife or tactical folding knife.

Things have come a long way. Not too long ago, a pocket knife was almost a toy, a blunt knife boys carried or something you cleaned out the pipe with. That may have been true then but nowadays, the assisted knife is a high-tech and very capable tactical tool that is durable and with a multitude of different types of blade configurations to choose from.

The assisted opening makes it easy to extend the blade one handed. This is the main feature of these knives and something that sets them apart from the old types that almost always required two handed operation.

What do you need a assisted opening folding knife for? When you get one, you will see that it truly is a tool and that it is useful for more than one might expect and does an equally good job whenever you need to cut, open things, pry, and scratch (as when shaving off mud from boots)

Naturally, if you do a lot of hiking, hunting or angling, assisted opening knives are essential and a absolute must-have product due to portability and easy one-handed opening. Being able to open a knife one-handed may make a big difference in a emergency.

By: johhny donahoe

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