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FOLDER DEPLOYMENT. What is fastest? Your experience? Favorite folder specifically for how it deploys?

I like tactical folders. Though it was a while ago, I studied martial arts for many years.  If you carry a tactical for defense reasons, practicing deployment of ANY weapon is critical.  That said, I try out every every kind of tactical I can find.  I have tried, regular thumb studs, flippers, assisted, switches, and the Emerson "wave" as well as the Cold Steel version of the Emerson wave ( a flat thumb stud that catches your pants just like the Emerson).  For me, nothing (other than a fixed blade) deploys as fast as an Emerson with the Wave feature or a Cold Steel with the thumb plate (AK47, Black Talon, Espada, Raja ll,

Spartan, Talwar & Tiger claw).  I find the Wave feature to deploy faster than any other method consistently.  Even though that is true, and I practiced, one out of 100 practices, the deployment goes wrong and I don't get the blade deployed efficiently.  

I invite all to share your experiences and thoughts about this. 

- A

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based on what you have said i would have to say that it's gonna suck if you can't deploy it reliably that one time u really need to. granted nothing you have not thought about/figured out. 

so with that i would favor dependable deployment every time over a more subjective wave type of technology. i felt a flipper that also had thumb studs and the thumb studs were the slickest thing i have ever felt, with no effort at all. i sent it back though because the flipper didn't deploy properly.  I would have been screwed using that flipper as it was.

I often use a latch drop opening with my balisongs, after you get the hang of it, it's like magic without looking at the knife at all. It's the very 1st. thing  test with a new balisong cause it might save my life .  When i got my 29 wee hawk i did the usla, that thing whipped around in my hand like i had owned that knife for years.  All I could do is grin a realise how fortunate I was to stumble across my Grail so soon.

great topic imho. 

I think the hardest firing knife I own is the Benchmade Barrage. This thing almost jumps out of my hand when I nudge the thumbstud. Great feel and weight to it, very nice lines, and just plain sexy! Lol M390 steel is icing on the cake!

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