thoughts on the new buckmaster navy seal knife? are they actually decent dive knives or just a gimmick?
>>62875806idk
>>62875806Who gives a fuck? Does it matter?It's a piece of steel with an edge on it.95% of all other fighting knives will have identical performance in the unlikely scenario that they're actually used for their intended purpose.
>>62876040You couldn't be any more WRONG, MR.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEhw4wan6BM
>>62876040>Not being a knifefagHoly mother of cringe
>>62875806What handful of design elements make it a military dive knife?Full tangTwo edgeUnified spine & shankSynthetic gripLanyard loopAnti-corrosion blade coatingSeems to have that.
>>62875806Not worth $800-900 in any way. The equivalent Bitchmade is $150 and has a strap cutter on the blade. How many times has the anchor system been used on the originals? It seems counterproductive to have to give up your knife when a specific anchoring device would work better.
>>62875806Knifefags are so weird to me lol who gives a shit what knife a navy sea who never uses it in a legit knife fight thinks? Give me whatever knife the assyrians or romans or something were using, those mf’s knew a lot better than any modern person how to kill somebody with a knife
>>62875806Why does it have a hole in the blade?>>62876500>$800-900Say sike
>>62876984The hole lets the blood out when you stab someone so it doesn't get stuck in their guts
>>62876984800 - 900 is a steal for the design elements and material quality you get with that knife. Its chosen by the SEALs for a reason. They only use the best
>>62879650Oh it's a steal alright, just not for the customer
>>62876738>never uses it in a legit knife fight thinks?OP asked if it was a good dive knife, not a fighting knife. I think he might be a diver who is concerned about the knife's utility, not a knifefag fantasizing about slitting throats.
>>62876984>Say sike??? >>62879650Dive knives get absolutely trashed with real use, there has to be a cost-benefit ratio that makes it make sense. You can get all the knife you need for $100. Is the Buckmaster nice? Yes. Does it have a great profile? Yes. Would I like one? Of course. Would I pay $900 for it? Never.
Pretty badass, not gonna lie. I wonder how they train knife combat. You do not want to go toe-to-toe with these cold blooded killers.
>>62879838>???In the late 90's there was a trend among poorly educated individuals to say something ridiculous followed by "sike", which was a sometimes-deliberate and sometimes stupidity-induced misspelling of "psych". He's saying the $900 price being quoted is ridiculously high, and outing himself as a particular age & social class in his method of doing so.
>>62876030based
>>62879865These men are immune to bullets, can teleport through space and time, and have psychic abilities to read your mind. DEVGRU can phase shift into your exact location and canoe your skull in under 30 seconds.
OP here. is 800 really that much? i figured that's w/e for knives nowadays. what's a better priced dive knife then?
>>62879913What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
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>>62879874It really doesn't translate well to online writing. I get that Seals are special, really fucking "special" if the few I've met are any indication. However, $900 for a dive knife is insane and as sweet as that spearpoint blade profile is, I'd never dive with a knife that wasn't a blunt tip, like this $90 example.>t. used to do a lot of rough weather diving in cold water
>>62880978Flat tip and spear point dive knives both have valid use cases. The spear point is better for spear fishing, the flat tip is better for general utility and a must when diving for clams or shit.But life for a dive knife is hard and short. I buy the $20 ones at the bait shop and I expect them to last less than half a year if I’m diving 3x/week.
>>62881007>I buy the $20 ones at the bait shop and I expect them to last less than half a year if I’m diving 3x/weekThis. If you're in the drink that often, it has to be disposable.
>>62880854Can't believe how expensive knives have gotten.
>>62881007what wears out?
>>62875806I'd really love it without that finger groove. But it's a stabber. Looks tacticool but daggery. I might prefer less belly on the edge of a stabbing knife. Looks like they tried to make it slicey too, but to me it only serves to make a stabbing tool wider, to pry with, which is ok I guess. I know it's supposed to be multipurpose, but that thing is for prying and stabbing, other tasks it will do, just not pleasantly.
>>62883408Everything. Even with good stainless steel, parts can corrode because LOL saltwater. But mostly they break or get lost underwater or stolen by some dock rat. You want a balance between quality and affordability because you will need to replace it, sooner than expected.
>420HC >$800>mfw
>>62881007Spear fishing? What fucking spear fishing are you going to do with a knife? Get a spear gun! This isn't Robinson Crusoe, you are not in a survival situation. And even if you were, there are better choices for spear fishing than your knife. Now, I would understand the sharp point from the point of food preparation, that you can do with a sharp point better than with a flat point (doesn't mean you can't do food preparation with flat point). And just general "shanking some mofos". Self-defense is a thing that might happen with a knife more often than bloody spear fishing. If you are going scuba-diving (or just snorkling) I'd expect you to have SOME actual fishing gear. You seriously going to tie your knife into a stick and try to stab fish with it?
>>62888456An actual speargun from a diving store costs you anything around 100-200 bucks, depending on the quality. 800 bucks for a knife is just idiotic.
this knife is the male equivalent of when a woman buys an $800 gucci purse that cost $5 to make in a bangladeshi sweat shop. (but at least the woman will actually use that purse a couple of times)
>>62888470800$ for a lifelong tool isn't crazy.However most will be underused or lost, nothing unusually for premium tools. Spearguns are a niche use for divers, knives are mandatory for every dive tho.
>>62875806>navy seal knifeSOF guys probably have a couple of hours of knife training under their belt, who cares? You'd be better off asking what some tiny Filipino escrima guy uses if you want the opinion of somebody who actually practices.
>>62891146>800$ for a lifelong tool isn't crazy.it is tho, when u can buy an equivalent lifelong tool for $150-200 with better steel
here u go OP. $50 and a lifetime warranty
>>62888456You use a knife when spearing to dispatch and gut the fish you shoot with your speargun, dipshit.
