on another note, i think the massive love affair with SR101 is due to its lack of appearance in the past few years and its resurfacing. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> SR77 aint going nowhere, so i can sleep good at night <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
lack of appearance? what? recent years? aren't you new to these knives?
"love affair." i have had one rat until now and sold it. the swarden. i have no devotion to sr101 and i did not purchase an S5. the M9 is the first rat i both own and love. coulda been SR77. coulda been infi. it happens to be sr101. the designs the clan produces are the deciding factor for me, never the steel. i'll taking any of them, including 154CM.
now lets be clear about why people like the SR77 knives. it's not the "superior steel." it's the price or the respirene-c handle. i will question, even challenge, any data i see (i haven't) that indicates the superiority of SR77 to SR101 or infi.
yea magnum, you read it correctly the first time... LACK OF APPEARANCE. there havent been ANY knives put out at the swamp in what 2 years, M9LE aside.. before the M9LE, when was the last swamp release... thats what i was saying. and im not "new" to these knives... please.. Ive been at the swamp since early 2006. and we can have the sr77/sr101 all damned day, the facts remain. sr101>sr77 in edge retention. sr77>sr101 toughness and strength. and sr101 is more proned to rust than sr77.
