I hate to admit that I feel the same way about this myself... used to be mudders for me. Now I've lost interest in mudders or really any other handles for smaller EDC type blades. I actually really liked it a lot on 3.5"-4" Hack Wardog that I used to carry in my pocket EDC. I'm hoping this one will fill the same void, as I miss that blade a lot and I don't see many of the short War Dog Hacks these days.