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Although I had never considered myself a "Glock man" there was a time where a Glock Model 17 served as my primary sidearm, and I liked it. Then my relationship with the Glock, for complicated reasons, came to an end. Not long after I became a "1911 man". Yes, the "nothing but a 1911 for me" type that many of you may know, and perhaps even hate. Seasons changed and I found myself living and working in an environment where 9mm was the common currency and a 1911 was not to be had. Strange days these were, and I had no other option but to fall back on the Glock when I was lucky enough to get my hands on one and make do with whatever else when one was not.

One fine day I returned to the United States and was reunited with my coveted 1911. All was well until I came to realize that I wasn't shooting nearly as much due to the rather ridiculous rise in expense of shooting 45 caliber ammunition. I decided that I needed to reevaluate my "major caliber" stance and contemplate a firearm of the 9mm variety. I have to admit that I thought about this way too much in retrospect, because my first instinct was to go back to Glock. However, a few firearms had grown on me that offered a bit of what I liked about the 1911.

We are very pleased and honored to have been contacted by TAK Knife who expressed their interest in producing a tactical trainer to compliment the Back Bite fighting knife.

TAK Knife is an outstanding company that has been producing high quality training implements for practitioners of edged weapons craft for many years.

These high quality, high strength, high durability trainers are certain to satisfy your training needs. The production capacity of TAK Knife is better able serve our clients as we have been unable to fulfill both the civilian and Military demand for our Back Bite trainers.

I am honored to be counted among the many designer/practitioner trainers of the TAK Knife line including Bram Frank and Ernest Emerson. Also, trainer representations of productions by; Spyderco, Cold Steel, Benchmade, Ka-Bar, Columbia River Knife and Tool and many more.

TAK Knife has much more to offer than the Back Bite trainer. We are very pleased with the product that they offer and look forward to TAK Knife fulfilling your tactical training needs!

For more information, please visit - www.takknife.com

Some time ago I had purchased the Vortex Strikefire. Recently, for whatever reason, I scanned through a few threads to see what others had to say about it. What I have read thus far has the words "budget red dot" ringing in my ears. I have some amount of difficulty with this classification based upon my personal experience.

The Strikefire is in fact incredibly affordable. However, the way that I see it, the difference between what I would call a "budget red dot" and the "incredibly affordable" Vortex Strikefire is miles wide!

Perhaps the primary difference I have found between me and others who have purchased the Strikefire is my familiarity with the Vortex brand. I was originally made familiar with Vortex through a neighbor and family friend who had worked for years as a hunting guide in Alaska. I do not believe that he owned a single thing that was not top quality or could not be thoroughly depended upon for a lifetimes use. He did own, and held in very high regard, a set of Vortex brand binoculars.

My entry into the Vortex brand started with the acquisition of the 30mm Vortex Viper 6.5-20x44 Mil-Dot, as seen reviewed in a previous Max Venom post (http://www.maxvenom.com/rifleman_vortex_optics_review). I was thoroughly pleased with this purchase!