Gideon Tactical’s 5 Best sub-$200 Pocketknives

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A pretty good list, given the impossibility of the task.  What are soe of your favorite sub-$200 EDCs.

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H. Clay Aalders

H. Clay Aalders is a lifelong edged tool user. He spent the past 20 years as a woodworker and fishing guide in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Tennessee. While guiding in Idaho, Clay worked part-time writing for a local newspaper, and upon moving to Tennessee began writing for the blog The Truth About Knives - spending his last 5 years there as Managing Editor. His background is in fixed-blade hunting and bushcraft knives, but has jumped into the world of vintage slipjoint collecting with both feet since coming to work at Knife Magazine. Clay’s primary role is as Digital Editor, curating and creating new content for our website and blog, as well as maintaining the Knife Magazine social media accounts (FB/IG: @theknifemag, Twitter: @knifemagazine). He is also a contributor and Associate Editor of the print magazine.

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  1. I picked this posting for my latest pawnshop acquisitions. On Wednesday the 18th, I bought a “BEAR MGC 505D (NIB)”. This is a Damascus single-blade folder with stag scales. “MGC” became “BEAR & Son” circa 2004. American-made in Jacksonville, Alabama. For a mere $10, I got a “BUCK 433 (aka “Juno”)”. “LoggerHead Tools” (Made in the USA): “Immix 10x” w/orig. sheath. This is an innovative design by Dan Brown about twenty years ago . . . The primary feature is the “Bio-Wrench”. The “Immix 10x” adds a ten-bit rack of drivers, e.g. Torx, Phillips and square (aka Robertson); and, a plain-edge blade and a serrated sheepsfoot blade. I was curious about this tool because “Dan” sued “Sears Holding Company” and its Chinese parent: Apex Tool Group for patent infringement. “Dan” won a $6 million verdict in 2017; BUT, on an appeal a judge reversed the decision. Basically, “Apex Tool Group” stole the patents in what is called “efficient infringement” . . The Chinese megalith was able to outspend Dan Brown. Dan Brown continues to manufacture the “Bio-Wrench” and other tools in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. He continues to battle “Apex” on his patents. I am considering framing the “Immix” and hanging it next to my “Stars ‘n’ Stripes” in my workshop”. “Hocky”

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  2. Sub-$200 Pocket Knives?? My first criteria is, “What is the primary purpose of the knife?” I prefer a blade length of three (3) inches Or Less. I prefer a wharncliffe pattern. I routinely carry a Spyderco “Lil Native” wharncliffe which retails for less than $200. I carried a Spyderco “Dragonfly 2” wharncliffe for many years and occasionally clip it in my pocket in lieu of the “Lil Native”. I carry a slip-joint in my 5th pocket . . . currently that is a vintage (est. mid-1980s) “Parker Flying Eagle Stockman.” which was bought at a yard sale for $5. My “coin pocket” knives include a vintage BUCK “Lancer” (Model 301) for $10 at a pawnshop; and, sometimes a vintage GERBER “LST” (Model 400) designed by the late and great “Blackie” Collins.

    Speaking of pawnshops . . . “J&S Pawn and Guns” in Hagerstown recently gained me these knives: “Remington” Bullet pattern “Trapper”-R1128; tang stamp: 1989 (MIB). This knife was made by”Camillus” as a SFO and only made in “1989”. . A modern (2024) “CASE-Sodbuster Jr., 6137 w/Amber bone scales” (NIB);and, a “BENCHMADE 551-Griptillian; S30V (Exc. cond. without the box).

    My peddler bag is chock full of knives for the upcoming “Hagerstown Fairgrounds Community Yardsale” on Saturday, April 11th. I am in “Horse Stall No. 4”!!

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