Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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Which Para 2 is your favorite?

S30v
15
15%
Blue M390
23
22%
Foliage Green Elmax
5
5%
Forest Green CTS204P
22
21%
CF CPM154/S90V
6
6%
Orange CTS-XHP
8
8%
Brown CPM-S35VN
8
8%
Grey CTS-20CP
8
8%
CF S90V
8
8%
 
Total votes: 103

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Re: Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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ELMAX....love that steel
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I voted the Dark green pm2. I wish i had one :( The **** thing is harder to find in europe then the 6 winning numbers of our euromillions lotery... :p
if i would find one of those new in box it would be the only para 2 i will never change anything on. :)
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Well since I only have 1 I would say that 1!! Black G-10 s30v.. John :)
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Re: Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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Black G 10, s30v satin blade, with a STR deep carry pocket clip. Because it's regular production I am not afraid I'll damage or lose it which makes it my favorite.
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Re: Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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Without owning a PM2 - yet, my vote goes for the one I want, the orange ctsxhp. Not sure why but this one is calling to me. I've posted about if I really need a PM2 though. Please give me some feedback PM2 owners. Thanks.
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Re: Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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I'm another vote for the Forest Green 204P. I like it for the color, metal, and smooth operation. Ordinarily I would have liked foliage green better, and I was expecting maybe to like my newer foliage Elmax better, but the 204P opens more smoothly and its G-10 is chamfered, making it noticeably more comfortable in hand to me. It takes a good bit more force to overcome the detent of the Elmax knife, which some would probably like. My 204P is from the first run of the green exclusive. I don't know if the second run was chamfered or not, or even if the whole first run was, but from the pictures I've seen, the first run was a little "more perfect" than the 2nd :cool: The brown S35VN is the only other PM2 I have, but I've got a couple of used FG "PM1's".

Before I bought my green PM2, I had just bought my first 2 or 3 spydies and come on the forum, and there was a huge amount of excitement about this green exclusive, the forum Native, and the K-390 mule. I got caught up in the fervor but didn't have a clue about sprints or exclusives or how to find out where to get one, plus the green PM2's were pretty well sold out. A few had just been selling for $175, but they seemed to all be gone. Some were selling on the secondary market for $300-$400. Finally I got a tip from a very highly respected long-time forumite and snagged a numbered collector from a dealer for $225. This was about ten times what I used to pay for a knife and $50 more than I had been willing to pay. I quickly came up with my pizza dinner argument, which I've used several times since then :p Do I really want to miss out on this knife forever over the price of a couple of pizza meals? :confused: :eek: The knives always win out over pizza :D

Here's my two so called greens, though it's hard to capture the subtle shades of green in a photo. The ant seems to prefer the taste of the Elmax :)
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Re: Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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DougC-3 wrote:
but the 204P opens more smoothly and its G-10 is chamfered, making it noticeably more comfortable in hand to me.
I did not know that some of the 204P knives were chamfered and some were not?

Curious to go check mine out after work.
On my radar: 110V Military, Police 4 and some sweet Rex 45 Military action.

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Re: Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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DougC-3 wrote:
but the 204P opens more smoothly and its G-10 is chamfered, making it noticeably more comfortable in hand to me.
I did not know that some of the 204P knives were chamfered and some were not?

Curious to go check mine out after work.
On my radar: 110V Military, Police 4 and some sweet Rex 45 Military action.

Newest Spydies: S90v Ti Military, Pacific Salt and a special Kiwi.
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Re: Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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DougC-3 wrote:
but the 204P opens more smoothly and its G-10 is chamfered, making it noticeably more comfortable in hand to me.
I did not know that some of the 204P knives were chamfered and some were not?

Curious to go check mine out after work.
On my radar: 110V Military, Police 4 and some sweet Rex 45 Military action.

Newest Spydies: S90v Ti Military, Pacific Salt and a special Kiwi.
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Re: Which Para Military 2 do you love the most?

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HarleyXJGuy wrote:
DougC-3 wrote:
but the 204P opens more smoothly and its G-10 is chamfered, making it noticeably more comfortable in hand to me.
I did not know that some of the 204P knives were chamfered and some were not?

Curious to go check mine out after work.
I'm pretty sure the chamfering is done by hand and sometimes it's barely noticable. I just find it a little more comfortable. Some people might argue that it's better not to have it so as to have a better grip on the edge of the scale while pushing out the blade.

By the way, your post showed up three times and I think I know exactly why. Every night at around midnight to 12:10AM here in the US central time zone, the forum server gets as slow as wading in deep molasses, uphill :) It sometimes takes me 10 minutes to get a post to show up, so apparently a couple of your failed attempts went ahead and posted later.
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