Outdoorsman5, thank you for your very helpful advice. I'm looking to run a base of 45 miles per week year-round and quite a few of my runs will be in the dark.
I have ordered a Zebralight H51W and have just found a NiteIze headband in my cupboard that I must have had for about 15 years and have...
The arrow clip came from another Benchmade..I'm not sure which model....and I swapped it onto the RSK.
I don't really like the clips that Benchmade do that have the glossy black coating. I have removed it from some my clips by using an "electric wire brushing machine thingy :o" that we have at...
Beware, you could get into trouble if the Benchmite Auto is found on your person:
http://www.acts.ie/zza12y1990.4.html#zza12y1990s9
"9. —(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where a person has with him in any public place any knife or any other article which has a blade or which is sharply...
They used to use it on the 100SH2O knife and 6H2O Rescue Hook, but changed over to X15TN steel.
H1 is the model, not the blade steel (which is laminated VG10)
I always take a headlight with me (a Petzl Tikka Plus) and back it up with a hand held light with a good run time.
I usually take an AA MiniMag with an Opalec Newbeam LED conversion, or a Fenix L2T.
To back up my back up I have an Arc AAA on a neck lanyard.
I'd recommend a Benchmade. If you have your heart set on a thumb hole there is new version of the Griptilian coming out soon called the 550HG that has a round hole opener, Axis lock and 154cm blade steel.
http://www.benchmade.com/products/product_detail.aspx?model=550HG