Getting your hands dirty: The practical value of impractical hobbies

You take a rusty piece of scrap metal, a hack saw, a file, and you get to work. After hours of cutting, grinding, and sanding spread out of a week’s worth of days, you’re left with a knife that’s probably not quite as good as one you might buy at Walmart for just less than […]

Three questions to ask yourself before looking for a new knife

Thanks to my varied career and personal choices over the years, I’ve put a lot of knives through their paces. Whether it’s for a field op or camping, a daily use pocket knife or a defensive weapon, a multi-purpose survival knife or a fancy decorative piece. I’ve probably got a knife or two that’ll fit […]

French holocaust survivor murdered by anti-Semites

Paris, France — Mireille Knoll, 85, was found dead from multiple stab wounds; her apartment had been set on fire and police had to recover her body. Authorities say that she sustained 11 stab wounds and the fire had partially burned her body. Two men have been placed into custody, both in their twenties. One […]

SOG Quake Folding Knife | Review

Plowing through a sea of folding knives there lies great difficulty in finding new innovative designs. After all, several manufacturers have been creating reliable, well designed assisted-opening knives for years. And what’s not broken, needs not fixing, right? Well, SOGdecided to look into new mechanisms and methods for opening an assisted knife and gave birth to the SOG Quake and Quake XL. 4:22 3:00 The folding […]

The Kershaw Injection 3820

Kershaw’s Injection 3820 is a small frame knife that comes with an incredibly sane price-tag of around 10 dollars. It contains a three-inch, bead blasted, 8Cr13MoV stainless steel blade that comes with a straight flat grind and razor-sharp scandi edge out of the box. It is the perfect length for an everyday carry folding knife […]

Morakniv Garberg: The best knife for bushcraft and survival?

The country of Sweden is world renown for the durability and quality construction of their hand tools, especially their axes, and knives. In fact some Swedish manufactures have been in existence since the late 17th century when America was still a colony of the British. The northern reaches of the country routinely see temperatures as low […]

ESEE Knives | ESEE-3 MIL: Practical and fully capable

ESEE knives are popular amongst Loadout Room writers. From the SERE instructor to our editor, ESEE knives receive a lot of praise and for a good reason. I have owned an ESEE 6 for years, but I only recently got my hands on the ESEE-3 MIL, and it certainly does not disappoint. The ESEE-3 MIL may be the smallest out of the ESEE […]

Bradford Knives Guardian 3

Bradford Knives is a small business that makes high-end blades out of Kent, Washington. They offer a variety of quality every day carry and outdoors style designs at reasonable prices. I, being a big fan of small utilitarian type knives, recently acquired their Guardian3. The Guardian3 has a beefy design capable of immense leverage but also […]

Self defense in gun free zones

If you’ve been paying attention to violent crimes in the past year or so, many have occurred in “Gun Free Zones.” If you’re headed to a location where firearms are prohibited, how can you be prepared to defend yourself in the event of  an assault or an active-shooter situation? The Arms Guide has a few suggestions to […]