Recently I picked up a Recruit. I like the simplicity and clean lines. This thing has the most amazing snap to it! The main blade closes with a sort of soul-cleansing CLICK! that is very, very gratifying, kind of like watching a hungry large dog eat its dinner. I wonder if the lack of back tools improves the snap? It does seem like my Bantam and all the alox SAKs I have with no back tools tend to have a prodigious snap to them.