![]() ![]() A quick check with the ruler put the blade right at 6.75 inches with a lower cutting surface, at least that much, if you were to measure along the curve. RR Saigon Sidekick and The Ontario Air Force Survival Knife, side by side for a size comparisonĪ full review of the Rough Rider Saigon Sidekick.Īs with most Rough Rider knives, the blade is made from 440A stainless steel which is hardened to an HRC of around 56. Price: Between $20-35 depending on dealer and shipping. ![]() It has a stainless steel cross-guard between blade and stacked leather grip. Rat Tail tang pass through the leather washers and is pinned to a stainless steel pommel. ![]() Spine edge is the same as that on the Tom Brown Tracker. It has a 440 stainless steel blade the bottom edge lacks the notch for wire cutting. Price: Between $8-20.00 depending on dealer and shipping. Wood handle also comes in a Camo pattern. Wood handles attached to a 440 Stainless steel frame with hex screws. Outward appearance is nearly identical to the Tom Brown Tracker. Price: Between $175-300 depending on dealer and shipping. Made of 1095 carbon steel, full tang construction with removable Micarta handles attached with hex screws. The spine has a nice concave curve between the handle and the saw blade which makes up the front half od spine out to the blade tip. The rest of the bottom edge is regular knife blade making convex curve of full 90 degree swoop to the spine at the tip. Then there is a notch for cutting wire and such. The bottom edge begins with the “hatchet blade” near the handle for hacking. Three cutting edges with a Japanese grind to the cutting edge. If you want to call it a rip off - go for it.Ī brief side by side comparison of all three knives: Despite all of this, there is also no way to describe the Saigon Sidekick without comparing it to the Tracker. There are distinct outward differences that make it easy to tell the knives apart. While it is obviously influenced by the Tracker design it is not a direct rip off., I don’t feel it tries to copy it or pretend to be a Tracker. The there is The Rough Rider Saigon Sidekick (RR1093). Country of origin is assumed China but again I’m not sure. I assume the company name is Enforcer but I’m not sure. The one copy cat I’ve seen calls itself the “Enforcer Tracker”. And instead of Kydex, you get a ballistic nylon sheath. In place of Micarta you get detachable wood handles. The copy cats have the black coated stainless steel blade of an unknown HRC with the exact same profile. Of course if you want to spend less, there are copy cats of the Tom Brown for around $10-20. All of this fits into a black Kydex sheath with swiveling metal belt attachments. For this you get a certificate of authenticity, a 1095 carbon steel blade with an HRC of 58, full tang construction and detachable linen Micarta handles. The knife was featured in the movie “The Hunted” starring Tommy Lee Jones and became a celebrity knife. Microsoft and T-Mobile said that users who reset their Sidekick by removing the battery or draining it fully are most at risk of losing their data.The Tom Brown Tracker (currently produced by Tops) with its distinctive profile is probably one of the easiest knives to pick out from a lineup of survival knives. Microsoft is reportedly working on a fix for the problem, and will try to get the Sidekick devices that still have personal data on them to sync back to the servers. It is approximated that thousands of Sidekick customers could have lost their personal data, according to sources. There are over one million Sidekick users. Danger operates the cloud computing service that stores the information for T-Mobile Sidekick customers. T-Mobile said that the loss is a result of a server failure at Microsoft, who acquired startup company Danger in February 2008. However, those affected have little hope of recovering lost data, according the Microsoft. Not all T-Mobile Sidekick owners were impacted, and the actual extent of the data loss is unclear. Unlucky T-Mobile Sidekick owners lost their contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists and photos this weekend when Microsoft subsidiary Danger suffered a technical glitch. ![]()
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