New from Medford Knife & Tool is the MKT Rake n Break. It’s lightweight and slim lined for easy storage and teh design means zero windup for breaking glass and features a hook for reaching valances and pulling them down. It’s also ambidextrous and Medford claims that even a 10 year old girl could break windows with it.
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Cameron Grantham has been appointed to International Business Development Manager for Benchmade Knives. Formerly
the law enforcement and military sales manager, Mr. Grantham is a former law enforcement officer who held both patrol and tactical assignments with a large municipal police agency in the Pacific NW. Cameron’s primary focus will be on driving both international commercial sales as well as international law enforcement and military sales. Current international sales coordinator Likija Stjepanovic will continue in her role as an international sales coordinator.
Prior to joining the team at Benchmade Cameron worked and established an excellent reputation in the industry in the military and law enforcement/tactical divisions at Danner/LaCrosse Footwear and Leupold & Stevens Inc.
Doug Pettis, Director of Sales at Benchmade Knives, advises, “We continue to see significant potential to grow Benchmade’s portfolio of brands on a global level and I am confident that Cameron will help us realize our full international growth potential.”
Plans about if or how Benchmade intends to backfill Cameron’s shoes are not yet announced. In the meantime questions can still be directed at fedgov(at)benchmade.com.
Congratulations to Mr. Grantham on his new position.
Benchmade Knives on the web at http://www.benchmade.com/ or on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/Benchmade.
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Developed as a collaboration between Emerson Knives and Multitasker Tools, the EK-1 has been under development since last year. This latest model has seen a 60% revision in its design and samples should be available by June.
Daggers have made a serious comeback. We first ran this story last September, but we constantly get new readers so we thought it would be a good idea to republish it since the story last week on the Benchmade SOCP knife was so popular. We’d also like to add some great comments by reader Acid Gambit that should help dispel much of the misunderstanding of this class of knife.
Greg designed this knife from direct input from THE most elite soldiers in the world. Operational experience built this knife. Thousands of entries into really bad buildings in IZ and AF. It was not dreamed up by video gamers, not range commandos, not cops. Assaulters at the highest level, who have been blind sided and tackled while clearing nasty places were the driving input for this knife.
During CQB it is definitely possible that an assaulter will become tied up in a fight with a bad guy. In many situations he may be unable to use his primary weapon and unable to draw his secondary ( tackled to the ground or over furniture). At this point the knife comes out and can stab and slash the bad guy until the assaulter can get to his pistol and put 2 in the enemy. The knife is used to create space for you to get to your pistol. The assaulter can draw his pistol while still holding the knife, finish the fight, stand up and put his tools away and get back to work.
The knife is not designed for you to run around and do El Prez mag change drills while holding it. I can’t think of a knife that is designed for that, so don’t get confused. The SOC-P knife is meant to save your life and allow you to fight back to your pistol or rifle and still be able to pull the trigger with your strong hand, or support the pistol/rifle with your weak hand, while still holding the knife.
Last week, we mentioned the recently released Special Operations Combatives Program (SOC-P) knife designed by Greg Thompson. While we described the features of the dagger, this graphic from Benchmade does a great job of illustrating the sequence of events of getting it into action and how the SOC-P knife is used.
One of the most popular knives at the Benchmade table is the SOCP Knife (Special Operations Combative Program) built by Benchmade with input from Greg Thompson. Greg is the head SOCP instructor out at Ft Bragg. It’s designed to be both an offensive and defensive weapon so if you’re wrapped up or someone grabs your primary weapon you can draw the SOCP to engage at close quarters (like house or cave) and fight away so you can revert to primary or secondary. The blade and finger eye/loop at the top is configured so you can still maintain positive weapon control and good trigger manipulation while the SOCP Knife is in your hand.
There’s a red training version available too, so you don’t bleed on the mat.
For more info on the SOCP Knife for your unit, contact Duffy(at).com or through Benchmade.
Here at SSD we are big fan’s of Greg Medford and the work he does for our troops at Medford Knife & Tool. So when we heard he had finally relented and agreed to a Facebook presence we were some of the first to hit ‘Like.’
We’d like to encourage you to ‘Like” MKT on Facebook as well. But, you don’t just have to take our word for it, when they reach 500 ‘Likes’ they’ll give away omething from their swag bag.
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Even SOG Specialty Knives & Tools has gotten in on the act with their Micro Entrenching Tool.
GQ magazine published a story entitled ‘Nine Things Every Man Should Have in His Pockets‘. As it turns out, two of the nine items are from SureFire. Since the other items aren’t SureFire, we won’t bother mentioning them, but it’s a worthy read nonetheless.
Stay classy, SureFire!
