Great video ! I was all into it and almost made it to the end and my stupid friend needed help. If he wasn't 7 feet tall and jacked I wouldn't have told him to pound sand lol
Thank you, and helping a friend in need is always more important. Especially if telling them to pound sand might get you pounded into sand. My favorite is the end of the video.
@@Alloy211 I was working at a shop one time and the police showed up with drums of guns. I was working a different project and the owner asked me to help. I said, "Nope!" and went back to what I was doing. The shop owner ended up doing the work. He did it for free! After it was all done, my boss had me and another dude take them to the scrapyard. We were pretty thorough about stripping anything of value.
There's no way I could bring myself to do it either. Fortunately we've never been asked to that sort of thing. It reminds of a customer I was dealing with at one time though. He was from a local welding shop and wanted to look at the drops of steel we had in AR400 for a target job he had. As we were walking back to look at the drops he starts going on about how much he hates guns and thinks they should all be banned. I don't know if by my appearance he assumed I felt the same or what but I let him go on with it. He said how he always charged them as much as possible because he hated guns but loved taking their money. After I showed him a couple pieces and he saw what he wanted I decided to speak. I told him he was immoral and unethical, that if he really had strong convictions he wouldn't make the targets at all and that it was wrong for him to profit from something he found so vile. I can't control who we sell to but I can make sure we don't give people any break on the price. He received no breaks. I will give Benchmade credit in that after the backlash they said they would decline if they were asked to cut down firearms again. Whether they did this because they really saw the error in doing something that is part a gun control agenda against the 2nd Amendment or they just realized how terrible the optics were for them with their customer base, I can't say for sure but I'm certainly leaning towards the latter.
@southside1975 I can absolutely respect that decision. Honestly I think Benchmade has tried to make amends for it but regardless it's something that can lose customers forever. I support LE deeply but would never facilitate or support the destruction of firearms. Especially in such a blatantly worthless endeavor.
edge retention is where the huge different is with the ones I bought to learn how to sharpen better.
That is a good point. I was actually sharpening the knock off bugout today and thinking of that exactly.
Great video ! I was all into it and almost made it to the end and my stupid friend needed help. If he wasn't 7 feet tall and jacked I wouldn't have told him to pound sand lol
Thank you, and helping a friend in need is always more important. Especially if telling them to pound sand might get you pounded into sand. My favorite is the end of the video.
After Benchmade showed their anti-gun ass, I'll never own a Benchmade.
I can appreciate that perspective and respect the decision. Unfortunately through the years I've had to do the same with other companies myself.
@@Alloy211 I was working at a shop one time and the police showed up with drums of guns. I was working a different project and the owner asked me to help. I said, "Nope!" and went back to what I was doing.
The shop owner ended up doing the work. He did it for free! After it was all done, my boss had me and another dude take them to the scrapyard. We were pretty thorough about stripping anything of value.
There's no way I could bring myself to do it either. Fortunately we've never been asked to that sort of thing. It reminds of a customer I was dealing with at one time though. He was from a local welding shop and wanted to look at the drops of steel we had in AR400 for a target job he had. As we were walking back to look at the drops he starts going on about how much he hates guns and thinks they should all be banned. I don't know if by my appearance he assumed I felt the same or what but I let him go on with it. He said how he always charged them as much as possible because he hated guns but loved taking their money. After I showed him a couple pieces and he saw what he wanted I decided to speak. I told him he was immoral and unethical, that if he really had strong convictions he wouldn't make the targets at all and that it was wrong for him to profit from something he found so vile. I can't control who we sell to but I can make sure we don't give people any break on the price. He received no breaks.
I will give Benchmade credit in that after the backlash they said they would decline if they were asked to cut down firearms again. Whether they did this because they really saw the error in doing something that is part a gun control agenda against the 2nd Amendment or they just realized how terrible the optics were for them with their customer base, I can't say for sure but I'm certainly leaning towards the latter.
I didn't know that I have 4 BM not buying anymore.
@southside1975 I can absolutely respect that decision. Honestly I think Benchmade has tried to make amends for it but regardless it's something that can lose customers forever. I support LE deeply but would never facilitate or support the destruction of firearms. Especially in such a blatantly worthless endeavor.