Awesome rope end quickdraw biner

By Andrew Golz Ranked #168 - Carabiners, Quickdraws, and Belay Devices April 6, 2009

I love this biner, I have last years version on the rope end of my quickdraws. I paired them up with Petzl Spirits and Petzl's dogbones. These things are super easy to clip, smooth action. They are big enough to stabilize the biner with you middle finger, then clip the rope through with your thumb and pointer and never have to worry about you middle finger getting in the way of the gate or rope. There is also a little ridge on the spin which helps when pinching the rope into the biner and it looks like they added some grip on the spine to help even more (that's a change from last year). This year they changed some of the strengths, the open gate used to be 9 kn and is now 8 and the minor axis in now 8kn and used to be 7, take that for what it is, i think i would rather have the higher open gate strength then more minor axis strength.

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