My first post of the year starts with more questions ....... For those of you that have one , do you find that the military is harder to open than ANY BM ?? Not saying there hard to open , but it takes more effort to open either military I have than any of my BM,s.
I have two and Iam gettin a third , but they aint as smooth for me to open. Do others have this same experience with theres ??
I have found so far that nothing surpasses the BM as far as one handed ease of openning.
Iam not knocking the spydie here , cause Iam gettin the third one , but if Iam in a hurry or in a tight place and have to open my knife , I,d rather have a BM with me ..........dj

YES I HAVE 4 AND THE OLD STYLE MILITARY IS KINDA SMOOTH,BUT NOT LIKE KESSLER.

Every BM I own can be easily flicked open one handed, but every one I own is an axis lock as well. I have a lot of spydercos. None are as smooth as the axis lock for sure. I do like teh militarys though.

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Originally posted by jam960:
Every BM I own can be easily flicked open one handed, but every one I own is an axis lock as well. I have a lot of spydercos. None are as smooth as the axis lock for sure. I do like teh militarys though.

Even my liner locks are eassier than the spydie military........I too like the military alot though (I have all three)

I don't currently own any Spyderco's, I can't complain about their quality, but many of the models I am interested in, they do not make ambidextrous yet, and I have yet to find a system that comes close to the AXIS lock!

Benchmade's liner locks are pretty glassy smooth. The 740 Lum I have feels like it has been greased.

That being said, the Spyderco Military opens just fine, and is a very worthy design.

it may depend on the millie: i can spyderdrop my BG42 quite easily, while on the S30V i tightened the pivot in order to center the blade and the action is rough even after some militec

none of them opens as smooth as my benchmades - it may have to do with the size of the washers?? (BM seems to use bigger ones)

My Millie is pretty damn smooth (no rough spots so far as I can tell).

My Snody Hybrid (the one that I use to compare it with, since it's a liner lock like the Millie) is Uber smooth, like it's on glass or something.

Over the holiday, DJ was responsible for me ordering up a CF Military in BG-42. At least he gets the blame when I have to explain it to my wife. It will be fun to compare the CF to the CF on my Benchmades. It will also be nice to try my first BG-42 blade.

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Originally posted by fastjan:
Over the holiday, DJ was responsible for me ordering up a CF Military in BG-42. At least he gets the blame when I have to explain it to my wife. It will be fun to compare the CF to the CF on my Benchmades. It will also be nice to try my first BG-42 blade.

You'll find a huge difference in the CF, especially with the CF military. Incredibly grippy, peel ply CF