Pros: Weight, Ease of Opening, Handle Material, Blade Material, Overall Quality, Blade Sharpness
Cons: Weight, Handle Feel, Handle Material, Pocket Clip
A beater OTF? pre January-2023 silent update
This knife is both amazing and very weird. I don't know how else to describe it. It's extremely light weight, but durable. The handle make it feel like a toy and tool at the same time. A lot of the pros like the weight, feel, and material can be seen as cons since it makes the knife feel cheap. From what I understand this comes down to the material used, CF-Elite. Basically, it's Grivory with strands of carbon fiber throughout. This allows the knife to take a lot of abuse but show little to no wear, and I think a lot of people will like that. The grit tape also helps with precise cutting, along with the tanto blade. And the Cru-Wear steel was a great choice. When this came out, no other OTF had it, now there is one other company that does it, but the blade is much shorter. I think all of these points make it more of a beater knife as you won't really mind abusing it. If you already have other OTFs with more premium materials, don't get this as the feel will be disappointing. If this is your first OTF, then get it.Note: There was also a huge issue with this knife, it use to use body screws that were way too long. This caused the knife to miss fire, rattle, and in some cases the switch popped off when dropped. Benchmade has since made a silent update on it using shorter screws after January 2023. If you have the older model, you can order new screws from Benchmade for free by email, call, or the website chat. If you don't want to wait, you can shorten the screws yourself. The screw that is the issue if the one closest to the switch. I bought this knife before the issue was fixed, so you can imagine the issues I when through. It's terrible how nothing was done about it for nearly 6 months.https://www.reddit.com/r/benchmade/comments/138u52f/did_anyone_notice_the_shootout_was_shadow_updated/?utm_source=share
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