I'm still trying to figure out how they've become so talked about . . . I guess it's all the advertising. It seems to me that it should shoot about like any other fixed blade BH since it's an inch wide closed. When it hits, you only get another half inch from it and it seems like a very expensive 1/2 inch. What is really surprising is not being able to replace the blades without having to sharpen them. I guess they want us to buy even more of them than we need.