At SHOT Show 2020, not long before the world as we knew it was coming to an end, I was meandering through the booths and had something stop me dead in my tracks. I'd randomly wandered by the TOPS Knives booth and laid eyes on its latest knife, a collaboration with Kyle Lamb.
There, on the counter, was a line of blades the famed knifemaker created with Viking Tactics (aka VTAC), Lamb’s company. The three distinctive knives were called the Patriot, Crusader and Norseman. They grabbed my attention, and I had to stop to check them out. Because TOPS and VTAC are both synonymous with “high quality” in my lexicon, it’s not surprising that those knives were amazing.