What are your experiences with the Stryker? Does it open strong and with authority? Rugge now I carry the infidel and never have to worry about an accidental firing..... Is the 9100 as safe?

Would the spring last as long? The infidel gets about 65,000 firings according to BM....

Just wondering if an out the side would last as long

Thanks dudes!

Love mine.i have all the le varients good snap and lockup.....

better than an infidel?

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Originally posted by THE PUNISHER:
Love mine.i have all the le varients good snap and lockup.....

Pictures are due

one's a workhorse, the other is a conversational piece.

one is limited to mostly piercing, the other can pierce and slice.

one gets gummed up easier, the other doesn't.

one costs alot more than the other.

A pet peeve of mine (don't take this the wrong way) is people who judge an automatic knife by how fast the blade deploys, the other is lockup, all higher end knives lockup well, as far as OTFs go there are daltons microtechs and benchmade 3300 for your OTF needs, no OTF double action switchblade is going to lockup like a vault, that's just not how they work if you want a blade that is long enough to be functional and practical.

There is a kind of heirarchy to knives.

for raw power toughness and maintenance fized blades sit at the top.

under the allmighty fixed blades sit your folding knives, basic designs proven to work, but they bend twist or do something else mechanical, which makes for a weak point.

under the much loved and utilized folding knife there is the automatic folding knife, more mechanical parts, more to go wrong.

under folding autos there are out the front autos which by design (at least in the 3300s case) are made to fail if the blade "goes off track"
combined with being the most mechanical, the least accessable for maintenance, and generally large in order to be sturdy you end up with a rather unbalanced knife with a large handle a smaller narrower blade and you pay more for the pain... errr I mean pleasure.

so we have our ranking system for knives.
you don't want a fixed blade, or a folder.
that leave us with the bottom two tiers of knives.

should the knife be used for fighing you're screwed either way, knife fights mean trouble. (and generally jail time)
other (and more legal) reasons for knives are many, everything from picking gunk from your nails to camp chores.

if your needs fall within say gunk picking to medium tasks and you have money to burn, get the infidel, you'll love it!

if your tasks go from a medium task like delimbing and hacking a bit to full on whacking away at branches getting dirty etc. get the stryker, you'll love it!

sounds like a balisong is better according to this rating system....i actually like a balisong (from benchmade) anyways because it has very little that can go wrong with it like a spring snapping etc...

actually my friend spent like $350 for the black infidel and one day he fired it and it broke......good thing he wasn't being robbed lol