HK Knives by Hogue are Heckler & Koch licensed knives machined, heat treated, and assembled in Hogue's American plant alongside its own catalog. Built for military, law enforcement, first responders, and everyday carry, the line covers a manual folding knife, a rescue folder, three double action automatics, and a fixed blade, mostly in cryogenically treated 154CM with CPM S45VN on the rescue model.
The HK Exemplar is the manual everyday carry knife of the line, a 3.25 inch 154CM clip point in tumbled or partially serrated black with machined, textured G-10 in black or FDE. Its pivot lock releases the same from either hand, dual thumb studs open it one handed, and the four position clip carries tip up or tip down on either side, with replacement clip kits stocked.
The HK First Response Tool pairs a 3.5 inch CPM S45VN drop point on Hogue's ABLE Lock crossbar with a seatbelt cutter deployed by its own thumb stud, an oxygen valve wrench machined into the frame, and a carbide glass breaker. It comes plain or partially serrated in red and black ChromaCut G-10, a layered material milled to show red beneath a black peel ply surface. Our comparison of every major knife steel shows why S45VN suits a knife that sees wet, dirty work.
Three HK automatics fire and retract from one ambidextrous thumb slide, all on 154CM at 57 to 59 HRC with hard anodized aluminum frames in black or gray. The HK Mini Incursion is the compact at 2.95 inches, the HK Hadron sits in the middle at 3.375 inches in clip point, tanto, or bayonet, and the HK Incursion tops out with a 3.9 inch bayonet, including a Night Fision version with a tritium trigger. See all of them with our Hogue OTF knives or the full range of OTF knives.
The HK Fray is the line's fixed blade, a 4.2 inch 154CM knife in clip point or tanto with a black and red overmolded rubber grip that holds in wet or gloved hands. For a side opening automatic, the HK Ballista XL in our Hogue Ballista collection was the first automatic ABLE Lock Hogue ever built, and it sits with the rest of our automatic knives.