What's everyone fav wire gate 'biners?

All my trad draws are made with Madrock Ultralights. I love those biners, and they are relatively cheap.

My favorite wiregate is the Edelrid Mission carabiner. I use it on all of my "trad-draws".
It weighs 25 gramms and has, for it´s weight, the biggest gate opening.
Also it is made in Italy and not in China.

The irony if the guy up thread calling folks "yupster douche bags" for liking Anges and then talking about "racking radios" in the same post made my day.

I prefer the BD hoodwires and larger Anges myself. The smaller Anges are ok too, but I climb a lot in the winter as well and find them hard to use with gloves on.

James Xu wrote:Omega Pacific JCs! They've been discontinued a few years back but are my go-to clipping biners.

I still use and love my JCs. They stopped making them because they cost too much to make? At least that's what they told me. I bet its the tooling and production cost associated with the channel that ran along the spine for weight reduction?

I am partial to ClimbTech but have to say that these are my favorite rope end clipping carabiner though...relatively light, smooth and rounded bar stock so the rope runs nice and smooth, it had a nice deep "basket" if you like to lead with a finger when clipping away from your body...not to mention they just look great.

I have them reserved on my "road trip" rack so don't use them too much. :)

Mammut Moses. I use them on just about everything from racking to draws.

WC Astros for alpine and racking gear.

BD OZs were my favorite but I just got a set of the new Cypher Midas biners. They are a fair bit lighter than OZs and the same inner size. The price point is pretty good on them to right now.

Wild Country Heliums by far. Light, big gate opening, no nose to catch. I dig the Hoodwires and Oz biners with the hood tech too, but has anyone ever noticed how sharp (like razor sharp) the rounded end of the wire gate is on those things. I noticed that they were sometimes getting caught up in slings when they rotated and every one on my rack has the same sharp cutting edge at the rounded ends at the base of the gate. That concerned me enough to go to the heliums.

Maybe this is too basic a question. But can any normal biner be used for a bail out biner during a lead climb? If not, what must be the biner that I should be looking for?

Will S wrote:Mammut moses have a few too many documented cases of breaking for me to ever use them.

I only use wire gates on my trad rack so I stick to the color coded OZ biner to match my cams and then have plain OZ biners on all my trad draws.

Honestly though biners don't matter much to me. As long as they are big enough to easily clip I'm happy.

A little late, but Metolius Bravos are awesome. I use them and OZ biners by BD if I can

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