This is one of the best offerings from SOG in recent years, barring the mighty Fatcat. It's a solid, tactical, warblade with an action that's smooth as silk. The knife is very ergonomic and fits the hand well. I personally don't find the gimping agressive at all. Blade came razor-sharp from the box, at it's big piece of S35VN stock. If your into big folders like Cold Steel, and Benchmade; then this SOG is up your alley! Once again, White Mountain delivers an excellent blade for the buck! Incidentally, the knife carries surprisingly well, and easy to set-up for your handed orientation.

SOG is on fire, and takes the cake for biggest comeback for any US knife company with their MK3 series. And the SEAL XR is a dream come true, a much needed win for my hometown, and welcome surge of pride and nostalgia for a sad state of Seatown. The biggest and baddest of the bunch was homemade, and the gold medal winner in the MK3 series; one of my favorite blades in general, hometown pride aside. This SOG is a beastly SOB, and is not big for nothin. Thiis monster is visually appealing, in a rugged, well designed, durable and heavy duty way, the blade shape, size and proportionality/geometry make for a gorgeous tool capable of handling ugly tasks. Every feature abd aspect of the piece is an asset to it's function, performance, versatility, reliability, and capability. Amongst my most treasured and appreciated blades, spanning quite a spectrum, the SEAL XR became a best friend right out of the box. The stock is so impressively thick, but its size is no gimmick, and shape and contours allow and encourage penetrative and slicing tasks from a variety of grips and angles, and the jimping especially, which is extremely thorough, present,sensible and well sized and spaced in addition to the texturing of the handle make for excellent, reliable retention, solid in any grip and control of whatever force, task and size job you have in mind for it. The weight on this guy doesn't bother me at all, and is an asset in its case, as lightness may be in others. I love the pommel as well, very capable and adds to the dimensionality of use. Honestly it doesn't weigh all that much in comparison to the spectrum of larger blades, and isn't awkwardly shaped, a fitted belt pouch, bekt or pocket carry is comfortable and easily drawn for me. Titanium and CF are cool if they don't much effect the price, but sometimes the beauty and appreciation of these materials will make me too neurotic about scratching or scuffing a knife I wanted because of its formidability and might, and that bums me out. For a blade I'd love to use, G10, FRN, Micarta, grivory, steel, aluminun, I prefer that, knowing I wouldn't be babying a force to be reckoned with. The actiion is awesome using the well angled, skeletonized trigger flipper tab. It doesn't rocket like some kbives, but it's great, and does its job well, has excellent jimping which becomes an excellent hilt/guard that allows secure and precise pressure from other gripping positions, transitions and specificities. But you also have the awesome XR lock, which is textured, and deploys like a dream, and seems to get better with use, avd given you a surprising amount of control of its full shutting, but also very easily drops or swings shut with minimal effort. This makes for an awesome grown up's tactical tank of fidget fun. I can't imagine that aspect not becomng a fun habit quickly out of the box, scd and calling to your hand when it's stored away.. Ergs are awesome and fit/finish/qc are wonderful, blade is centered abd well placed" everything is solid. After a good amount of use, it's still shaving sharpv without drag. The only thing I'd have hoped fot was that thr S35VN were Cryo XHP other mk3 knives, or at least cryo S35VN, hell, I wish it were CPM-4V, but this fella has had better edge retention than the XHP nodels and the cryo S35VN mk3 series I've bought, so the treat is excellent, I'm just a knife steel nerd. This is top notch S35VN, better than most of the abundant S35VN favoring brands, and as good as the few others who nail it, like CH. I got the new CPM-CRUWEAR Adamas, which became a favorite very quickly, and is the closest comparison I could think of, and the Adamas is such a joy, a beast and a very fidget friiendly one as well, but I wish it also had a flipper switch, while I kind of wish for 50/50 serrations on my SEAL XR. But I discovered they have released it in 50/50 form, which I must have, avd hope WMK stocks soon. A must own model either way, and from the best blade store around, hands down!!!

Amazing knife. Exactly what I expected. Great quality from top to bottom. Extremely sharp with very smooth action.
Thank you WMK for your fast service and great price on this knife.
Kind regards

great flipper - solid construction - handle is much better than expected- great value for 169.99