Hogue’s new automatic knife, the Ballista I, is hitting store shelves now. The Ballista establishes a new model line in the small, but always growing, Hogue Knives lineup.

Putting legal complications to one side, an automatic deployment does not, these days, instantly connote a tactical application; we’ve seen many auto knives, from Hogue and others, designed for more mundane applications alongside, or instead of, the more high-octane variety. With the Ballista I, however, Hogue did explicitly with military users in mind. There are two different blade shapes to choose from: either a sleek drop point or a rugged, American-style tanto. Both versions have a 3.5-inch cutting edge, which gives it that hard use pedigree, while still coming across as a reasonable choice for more mundane carry as well.

I covered this one in June’s Knife News.

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