Thread: Benchmade knives

@craigc I have the latest steep country hunter, can’t fault it, holds a wicked edge - no chipping or anything despite my average butchery skills and just needs a few licks on the ceramic steel and leather strop between deer or two to keep it shaving sharp. Comfortable in the hand, blade is perhaps a little wide - not quite as maneuverable for fine work like cutting out the poo pipe. Sheath is ok - can’t wear it in a belt - I usually just have it in bino harness or pack. Did make the mistake of leaving in trouser pocket on hot day and not cleaning it - sweat left a bit of surface rust spots that are pretty persistent. Would buy again.

Cheers Jake77.

Yeah Benchmade knifes are good, I like the shape of the blades they make.

Just FYI, be aware that Benchmade is an anti-gun company.
They were caught helping police destroy confiscated firearms, so the gun community has largely boycotted them in favour of Spyderco, Cold Steel, Buck, etc.
I have one of their knives from before that news came out, but I'm looking to get rid of it because of what they were doing. Spyderco knives are just better anyway.
Here is a link to the article: https://gearjunkie.com/news/benchmad...ys-guns-oregon

I read that article and don't see any problems?

Originally Posted by gimp

I read that article and don't see any problems?

dead right about that.......they were assisting police to destroy siezed firearms because they had the machinery to do so. they were going to be destroyed one way or the other..no question about that..... thats about as dumb as saying we should all boycott makita because Cindy bought makita angle grinders to cut up our ones..... it is what it is.

If anyone wants to get rid their benchmade knives in solidarity with our American friends happy to give it a good home

Originally Posted by gimp

I read that article and don't see any problems?

The problem is that the firearms could have been, and should have been, sold rather than destroyed.
That is the norm in many US states, as it should be. Instead, the police wasted taxpayer funds to destroy property that could have been sold to recoup costs.
Benchmade should have had no involvement in that whatsoever. They claim to have stopped assisting in the destruction of firearms, but only because they got caught and were losing business.
Do you want to support businesses involved in the destruction of serviceable firearms? I sure don't.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

dead right about that.......they were assisting police to destroy siezed firearms because they had the machinery to do so. they were going to be destroyed one way or the other..no question about that..... thats about as dumb as saying we should all boycott makita because Cindy bought makita angle grinders to cut up our ones..... it is what it is.

That's not an excuse. The police clearly didn't have the equipment to destroy the firearms themselves, so if no one was willing to help them, the firearms may not have been destroyed.
That is a real possibility in areas with strong support for gun rights. Either way, it doesn't get Benchmade off the hook. They chose to be complicit in something that they knew and later admitted was wrong.
In many other US states, seized firearms are auctioned off to legal buyers, which is the way it should be.

The Makita comparison is a false equivalence. Makita did not volunteer to destroy firearms or provide tools for that purpose.
Their tools were bought by the government, likely through a third party distributor, and used by people in ways that were beyond Makita's control.
That is in no way comparable to the company advocating or willingly engaging in the destruction of firearms.
I'm not going to support companies that destroy serviceable firearms, and if you support gun ownership I'm sure you won't either.

That just gave me a reason to buy another Benchmade.

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

dead right about that.......they were assisting police to destroy siezed firearms because they had the machinery to do so. they were going to be destroyed one way or the other..no question about that..... thats about as dumb as saying we should all boycott makita because Cindy bought makita angle grinders to cut up our ones..... it is what it is.

Bloody hell well Id better throw my lot in the bin then..........might need a bigger bin

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Bloody hell well Id better throw my lot in the bin then..........might need a bigger bin

Originally Posted by Kiwigunguy

That's not an excuse. The police clearly didn't have the equipment to destroy the firearms themselves, so if no one was willing to help them, the firearms may not have been destroyed.
That is a real possibility in areas with strong support for gun rights. Either way, it doesn't get Benchmade off the hook. They chose to be complicit in something that they knew and later admitted was wrong.
In many other US states, seized firearms are auctioned off to legal buyers, which is the way it should be.

The Makita comparison is a false equivalence. Makita did not volunteer to destroy firearms or provide tools for that purpose.
Their tools were bought by the government, likely through a third party distributor, and used by people in ways that were beyond Makita's control.
That is in no way comparable to the company advocating or willingly engaging in the destruction of firearms.
I'm not going to support companies that destroy serviceable firearms, and if you support gun ownership I'm sure you won't either.

and you have just PROVEN BEYOND ALL DOUBT that you dont fact check......

I deliberately put makita angle grinder up to see if you would.........the NZ firearms were crushed n bent,not cut up...but if yo uwish to get your frilly knickers in a bunch,dont let me stop you.
the article if you took time to read it clearly states the part of country where the guns were cut up does not allow for onsale of them.

and if you look back to the NZ gun grab...I suggested it would have been good thing if the ones taken back here were used for military purposes as it would give our army better firearms and the rest put into storage for emergencies...and I got slammed for saying so,so the idea they could be sent to Ukraine being flouted now is rather ironic....

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

and you have just PROVEN BEYOND ALL DOUBT that you dont fact check......

I deliberately put makita angle grinder up to see if you would.........the NZ firearms were crushed n bent,not cut up...but if yo uwish to get your frilly knickers in a bunch,dont let me stop you.
the article if you took time to read it clearly states the part of country where the guns were cut up does not allow for onsale of them.

and if you look back to the NZ gun grab...I suggested it would have been good thing if the ones taken back here were used for military purposes as it would give our army better firearms and the rest put into storage for emergencies...and I got slammed for saying so,so the idea they could be sent to Ukraine being flouted now is rather ironic....

It doesn't matter whether they were cut up or crushed(I knew about the crushers that were used here, by the way).
Either way, the company did not volunteer them or advocate for them to be used to destroy firearms.
They were bought by the government through a third-party distributor, and used in ways that the company had no control over.
Thus the Makita comparison was still a false equivalence.

Why are you defending that seized firearms are required to be destroyed in Oregon?
The people with the necessary machinery should be turning away the police, and they should be putting pressure on the right people until firearms are sold off instead of destroyed.
It isn't some inevitability that the firearms must be destroyed. That could be stopped with the stroke of a pen, so that should be the goal.

It's pretty clear that you're anti-gun, bro. If you really were pro-gun, you'd be keen on having whatever old junk the cops happen to seize be destroyed so that the gun industry is incentivised to make more.

Originally Posted by gimp

It's pretty clear that you're anti-gun, bro. If you really were pro-gun, you'd be keen on having whatever old junk the cops happen to seize be destroyed so that the gun industry is incentivised to make more.

Were you a supporter of the "buy-back" then? I was heavily involved in those protests, so if you were content to sit behind your keyboard instead, you are in no position to talk about being pro-gun.
Also, most of the firearms seized, at least in Oregon, are not "old junk." Criminals tend to use pistols from Glock, Smith & Wesson, Taurus, etc, as well as pistol versions of the AR-15 and AK-47.