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Guntotin fool, the assist for me is nothing more than to have something different. I do not have an open assist knife and this would be an entry for me.
If you can find them, there's the Pro-Tech Runt series. These are what's called "California Legal Auto" because of the blade's length being under two (2) inches. I have one, the original one. These are pretty slick and fast opening with a hard SNAP! ! !. . .the assist for me is nothing more than to have something different.
I'm surprised no one thought to mention the crkt carson design M16-10K-Zytel. This knife is a military designed knife that has the patented AutoLAWKS automatic safety feature that creates a virtually fixed blase when you open and lock your knife. Plus it has the Carson Flipper to open the knife in one quick and easy motion and you can't close the knife accidently because of the AutoLAWKS lever system quite smart technology. The blade is Tanto style in black dress that is high carbon AUS 4 stainless steel with a non-reflective black teflon plating. It is rugged stainless steel/zytel interframe build and teflon plated stainless steel blade with a teflon plated stainless steel clip. Best $19 bucks spent at Walmart for a small assist knife. The blade length is 3 inches and .08 thick and the handle length is 4 inches. Total length open is 7.125 inches and weighs only 2.3 oz. Go to www.crkt.com to check out this knife and others they have. CRKT stands for Columbia River Knife and Tool Company. I love this knife and was looking at sogs, gerbers, bucks and many others but for the money this knife can't be beat.
They are getting harder to find since Camillus went out of business, but I like the Heat model, followed by Kershaw's leek.
I have several of the Kershaw assisted openers. The chive and scallion are nice and small. I always have one close. But I usually carry a spyderco cricket. Nice and small, easy opening and sharp to an extreme.
The regular Kershaw Leek is highly recommended. Feels good in the hand, looks nice IMO, and not spendy. Very sharp. I had a G10 Leek but found it way too grippy - it didn't want to come out of my pocket. Now I'm with the steel Leek and Titanium Leek. JMO.
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