Nonsny SWHRT1 HRT Tactical Boot Knife, Black

I've read all the reviews of this knife and most of them appear to be written by people with implied intent to use this knife as a weapon. In contrast, my review is from the POV of this knife as a tool.Some reviews criticized the plastic sheath because it held the knife too tightly; however, from my POV, this is a plus. The last thing I want is the knife falling out of the sheath hurting my co-worker below. The sheath is good, hard, rigid plastic that shouldn't crack. The clip holds tightly on my wide belt. I've never carried a knife in my boot. How would I get to the knife while working on a ladder? Reach down to my boot? The knife can be easily pulled from the sheath with one hand if you use your thumb to spread the slot at the top of sheath. Leather sheaths by contrast will loosen and tend to flop around while working. In short, I like the plastic sheath.The knife itself is wide, strong steel and will not break in normal use. The handle has good grip and balance with ridges for your thumb at the hilt. I paid $20 which is affordable for a working person and I don't have to worry too much about losing the knife. Please don't tell me to spend $150 on a Benchmade knife.Lastly, if you need a weapon, get gun. If you need a working knife, I recommend this Smith & Wesson SWHRT1 HRT Tactical Boot Knife.

HERE'S THE BOTTOM LINE: There are plenty of great boot knife products on the market, if you want to carry what is legally considered to be a "double-edged dagger", and is therefore ILLEGAL to carry in many states and jurisdictions. This SWHRT1 HRT Tactical is single-edged, not too long, extremely well made, feels good in the hand, has thumb gimping on the spine, has a full tang, and has a deep finger choil to protect you from hand slippage when performing either a thrust or slash cut. The blade is thick, and the scales feel better in the hand than some knives that cost five times as much. (Yes, I have a collection.) SHEATH CHALLENGE: I understand why some reviewers describe problems with the sheath being too tight. However, this can be remedied. Specifically, the first time you extract the knife, do NOT try to pull and pull to remove the knife. (It is dangerous...DUH!). Instead, carefully spread open the plastic sheath where the semicircular molding grips the finger choil, just next to the blade edge. Spreading the sheath at this point will enable the knife to slide out with a firm pull. Using a fine-grained metal file or fingernail file will allow you to carefully reduce the semicircular molding that grips the finger choil.

This is a solid knife which, for its size, is relatively heavy, but with a fine balance. A few minutes of stropping on newspaper brought the sharp factory edge to shaving sharp. The sheath does hold the knife securely, perhaps a bit much so, yet working the knife repeatedly in and out of the sheath does seem to relieve that somewhat, and the reviewer who suggested twisting the knife when trying to disengage it from the sheath was on the money - it works. The clip on the sheath will lock it into a pocket or on a belt. The black coated stainless handle is quite comfortable, and fits either right or left hand well. I would think this knife to be a fine, small camp knife for smaller cutting chores and food preparation. It's a bargain that's well made with excellent steel.

Smith and Wesson are killing their reputation by selling items made in China. The sheath is plastic and useless for a boot knife since the entire thing comes out when pulling. It does not keep an edge very well and it's too heavy for its size. My suggestion is move on and get something better for a bit more money.

this knife isnt bad came fairly sharp has a thick sturdy blade but isnt a great cutting or chopping tool this is designed more for penetration so if your looking for a self defense knife this one is great not to big not to small great carrying system and strong drop point. sheath is very well made and clip is strong yet slips on and off easily the handle is way to fat and round its not very ergonomic. if your looking for a good everyday carry with good cutting abilitys this isnt it this is a self defense blade and thats about it.

I will just echo much of what "The Shepard" said about the knife. It's almost impossible to remove it from the sheath without playing tug of war with yourself. And to make a strange situation even more strange, the belt/boot clip that is an integral part of the sheath is so weak that it is useless for holding the knife in any location.....which is why I no longer own this knife. Rideing my motorcycle today, the knife fell away somewhere on I40. I don't miss it....Lynn Stubblefield

This is a good everyday carry knife. I didn't get the first one because someone at the post office ripped the package open and stole my item. Fortunately Amazon is great about shipping out a new item under that circumstance. I received the replacement, it was not hair shaving sharp, so I used the Samurai shark (don't laugh, it a great sharpener,) to sharpen it. I was worried that the blade wasn't sharpened to hair shaving sharp level. I found out differently when I tied a paracord lanyard to it. I was testing the lanyard when the blade slipped out of the sheath, barely skimmed my thumb and cut it open pretty deep-past the first layer of skin, almost to the meat.I bandaged the wound to stop the bleeding, took the bandage off, clean up the wound a little bit and crazy glued it shut. Long story short that boot knife is very sharp now.Aside from the sharpness its a nice heavy blade. It doesn't feel light or cheap. The sheath must of already been broken in because the blade came right out. I crazy glue part of it so the knife wasn't so loose. The sheath and blade ride nicely on my belt. Overall a great boot knife. Its longer than Amazon said it is. That is not a criticism, but an observation.