Black Diamond  Oval Carabiner

I purchased this to use for my horse slow hay net, works great for that. Tried to use with dog leash, seems to big for that use.

This Carabiner is perfect for any applicable application. It works as expected and is both light and strong! My only concern with the order was related to the shipping. The single carabiner was shipped in an 11" x 8" x 6-inch box that could have easily contained 12-20 of these carabiners. Given the virtually indestructible design of the carabiner, this reviewer believes it would be more environmentally and cost friendly to ship in a recyclable padded envelope.

BD ensures that their products always meet CE and UIAA standards. My application of this product has been bolt hanger clipping for anchors and for in-line direction points for rudimentary slack lines. Since oval carabiners direct forces to exist on the centers of opposing ends, this carabiner in particular is great for these applications Good project, reasonable price, simple design.

I bought this for firefighter equipment. It is easy to use and manipulate with bunker gloves on and the weight it supports definitely allows for life safety; it can be used for bail-out, dragging something, or anything in the middle.

I work as a wildland firefighter and it's nice to have a solid piece of gear to use if I need it. It is a simple throwback carabiner style that works great.

I checked the Oval Keylock out when I saw it had replaced the OvalWire in the BD line. This is a specialty biner that will work well for racking (keylock I get it), toproping (a few side by side with opposed gates), glacier rescue rigging, and making slack lines. A do it all biner? No. That was the OvalWire. The narrow spine that transformed big wall racks, classic modified oval shape, and wire gate made that biner a work of art at the level of Cobra ice axes, Express ice screws, and the new icon on the block, Snaggletooth crampons! Please bring the reeal workhorse back - the OvalWire!!

I bought this carabiner for hooking up my dog to a skijoring belt I wear when running. It works great, and is much better than the trapezoidal carabiner I previously used.

Have the new KN strengths changed? The new ovals are 23KN, according to Black Diamond's website.

These are great! Easy to use for things around the house.

I settled on this piece from BD after purchasing and reviewing key lock ovals from DMM (perfecto & plain gate), Petzl (OK), mammut (Wall micro), and camp (XL). the mammut is a little lighter but gets there by sacrificing major axis length. The only thing I would change is the shape of the nose. The Petzl version has more of a taper to the nose which I like. The BD is the best balance of size, weight, and racking space. The racking space is much better than the BD wiregate (despite the almost equal outside dimensions) which is cool