Smith and Wesson Tactical Pen Review
I recently bought an S&W TacPen:
This is a tactical pen (yeah, I know, I make fun of tactical stuff a lot). In true tactical form, it is both black and more expensive than a regular pen. They can be had at Amazon for about $26, substantially lower in price than similar products. As to what it really is, well, it’s a writing instrument and also a weapon. And it looks cool. It’s just over 5.5 inches long and takes Hauser Parker refills. Also, it is CNC machined from 6061 Airorated Aluminum and Type III hard anodized. I don’t know what that means but since this is a gun blog, I gotta use technical gun type words. It is solid, heavy and, in my limited testing, will go clean through a cantaloupe. Here it is compared to my EeePC for scale:
Here it is with the cap off:
And here it is field stripped:
In addition to slaying melons, it also writes really nice.
Quite happy with it.
ETA: Higher quality pics can be seen here.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
“Field-stripped”
LMAO here boss…
January 25th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Mrs. Ahab carries one of those in her purse now.
January 25th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
I’ll stick with my space pen
http://www.bestpensonline.com/CategoryProductList.jsp?cat=BRANDS:Fisher
It writes upside down, is fairly tough, and it won’t get confiscated when I go to work. 🙂
January 25th, 2010 at 12:42 pm
mine appears to write upside down too. and if i really need to write upside down, I’d use a pencil
January 25th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
If it’s tactical, where’s the rail?
January 25th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Needs a mini red-dot
January 25th, 2010 at 2:51 pm
What Bob G said.
If you can’t mount a laser on it, how do you know where to stab the cantaloupe? And a magazine for extra ink cartridges. And a barrel thingie that goes up.
January 25th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Stab it through a gatorade bottle and I’ll be sold on it as a stabbing weapon.
January 25th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Heh.
What about aftermarket rails and a sling?
Can you reload a .50 BMG casing with it? That could take out a whole row of melons! Looks more like 20mm, though.
January 25th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
Heh. My tactical pen is tougher than your tactical pen. And it can also diagnose restless leg syndrome. Not to mention that it came free from a drug company.
January 25th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
Don’t know what the problem with the links is. http://krites.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post.html
January 26th, 2010 at 6:33 am
I dig you, man. I have one of this and it is very nice. It will take any parker refills which is a plus.
The pointy tip is also cool for PDAs.
January 26th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Looks a little pricey at Amazon, but only 24.99 at Smokey Mountain Knife Works. I want one, especially since it uses Parker refills.
http://www.smkw.com/webapp/eCommerce/product.jsp?Mode=Text&SearchText=tactical+pen&Search.x=0&Search.y=0&SKU=SWPENBK
January 26th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Will TSA let it pass airport screening?
January 26th, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Lane Tech High School, Chicago, Illinois, 1973. I already had a Walther PPK in .22LR. (Still have it.) My classmates machined penguns, in .22LR, from brass, in machine shop. Our machine shop teacher was a WWII veteran and former professional lightweight boxer. We all pretended that he looked the other way.
(I gave him a bottle of Remy Martin brandy at the end of the school year. I bought it myself at a liquor store at age sixteen. What a different, wonderful time that was.)
January 26th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
haven’t tried the airport. but since they missed a knife i’d left in my carry on once, i doubt they’d notice a pen.
January 27th, 2010 at 11:45 am
We made fun of tactical pens recently, too. This one looks like a good one though. http://tacticalpants.com/blog/tactical-pens/
January 27th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
I think I’ll stick with the Fisher Bullet Space Pen.
If I can keep from losing them . . .
January 28th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Cool pen, I just ordered one myself. 🙂