I had the firm belief that tip-down carry was garbage, liner locks didnвЂ™t work for crap, the knife had to be feather-light, and that any steel less than CPM S30V was awful.ДЄll cringeworthy beliefs looking back after all IвЂ™ve learned over the years. It was just the beginning of my journey into knives and I was extremely green.ДЄll I knew about knives I had learned on the internet and we all know how well that usually works out. When I first got my hands on the Spyderco Military it was not a knife for me. I couldnвЂ™t understand why anyone would want the Military when you could just get a Paramilitary 2, it just seemed superior in every way between the four-position pocket clip, compression lock, size, and handle to blade ratio (which is an area SpydercoвЂ™s Military struggles greatly).ДЄll this being said the Spyderco Military is now one of my all-time favorite knives and I hope to maybe open the eyes of others too how nice this knife is and help them see past the unwarranted Internet hate for this knife. When I tried out a Military, I like many others just dismissed it in favor of the Paramilitary 2 which at that time was my first and only Spyderco. It might be the size or the fact it uses a liner lock, but mostly the main factor people donвЂ™t like the Spyderco Military is the fact it is tip-down carry only. The Spyderco Military is often, in my opinion, one of SpydercoвЂ™s most dismissed models. It is part of who I am, and I try to always have a knife on my person. I choose my knife for the day like most people choose their outfit, itвЂ™s not so much just a knife but an accessory. Now some people might think itвЂ™s crazy to own multiples of the same knife, and maybe theyвЂ™re right but that doesnвЂ™t bother me too much.ДЇor me all the different versions each have their own strengths and weakness, they each have their own styles and personalities. Sometimes even different versions of a knife will speak to me more than others, Spyderco is famous for getting us to buy the same knife over and over again for they seem to always be releasing our favorite knife in new steels and different handles and then to top it all off they make a limited number and then they never make that sprint run again.

Some designs just speak to us, and some knives just are hard passes, and sometimes we just canвЂ™t explain why we like a certain knife. We all have things that draw us to certain knives, certain features or characteristics. I hope to maybe change the minds of the naysayers and open them up to what I believe to be an excellent knife. As I grew as a knife enthusiast my opinion changed and I grew to love this mammoth of a knife. I could go as far to call myself a fanatic seeing as I currently own four different MilitarysвЂ¦Д«ut I didnвЂ™t always count the Military as my favorite knife when I first held it I dismissed it as soon as I felt it in my hand. Those who love the Military, commonly nicknamed by fans the вЂњMillieвЂќ, tend to be fanatics. The Military was Sal GlesserвЂ™s response to the question вЂњIf your son was going into military service, what knife would you give him? It seems like the Spyderco Military is a love it or hate it knife, people seem to either absolutely love it or absolutely hate it. The Spyderco Military was introduced in 1996, to this day it has remained a very popular (although slightly controversial) model.

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