With a sub-$300 price, the Axial Shift presents an attractive value proposition among automatic knives. Here's how it ...

Q: Is an OTF knife the same as an automatic? Although they feature an entirely different design than a folding blade, major manufacturers consider out the front knives as automatics. That’s ...

Most notably, it’s a automatic OTF—or out-the-front—knife, meaning it deploys with just the slide of a button. The Shootout is also double-action, so it retracts using the same button.