A good friends' cousin designs autos for Benchmade and was able to let his cousin buy two new autos at his price. My friend asked me which one I wanted since I already have several of their autos so we both decided on the new front open Pagan model. I have owned Micro-tech front openers before but this is my first from Benchmade. I have to say it is a smoother action than the Micro-tech even though it is a large knife.