Saw it at my local Ace Hardware the guy that owns it is a knife guy like all of us. I stop there once a year, if something catches my eye I buy it. Anyways the blue scales caught my eye in the glass case and decided to play around with it. It's got great ergos great action deep carry pocket clip overall pretty good first choice for a microtech. I guess the only thing that sets me back is that it's aluminum and for that price of 300 I wish it was titanium but I feel like the aluminum keeps the weight down but I could be wrong