your favorite survival knife

[Maddogg774]

My Scrapyard SOD in a survival sheath packed will all sorts of useful goodies from ultimate survival.

[stanley_white]

I am SOOOO envious of you with that Parrish!

-Stan

[Myal]

I usualy have a inzula 1 and or my opinel 10 on me , as well as the mercator on my keys , and a little self made fixed blade in the psk that usualy is on me somewhere .

Im guessing if I was to find myself in a oh poop situation , id have one or more of them on me .

the hardest I treat them tho is I used my inzula to open a few dozen oysters this trip to west aus . it took the edge off the tip of th eknife , no unexpectedly tho , it took a whole couple minutes to make it shaving sharp again tho .

Ill use gear I may have to depend on kinda hard if there is reason to do so , I dont go do destructive stuff with it tho , no call for it as far as I can see .

[mr.trooper]

Im a fan of my CRKT Razel S7

[rivertamer]

My BK7

[caine]

I am SOOOO envious of you with that Parrish!

-Stan

Thank you

[whetrock]

The Scrapyard Regulator is my personal favorite.

[GingivitisKahn]

BK2 is a good choice. Mmm - tastes like bacon.




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[Leadfoot2]

Different ideal survival knives for different conditions/uses. I like the Mora 840MG alot, the HRLM, the HEST, my Dylan Fletcher Hatchula II, and of course the venerable ESEE-5 and BK-7 (Just picked up a BK10 and it gets the nod over the 7).

On the wish list is a Martin Bushcraft Tactical, a Swamp Rat Rodent 5 and/or 7, an Ontario RAT-5 and a Ranger RD4. Just about all of my designated 'survival' knives that see survival use have been purchased or modified with scandinavian grinds or 'scandivex' light convex grinds.

I guess my favorite abuse story, which I've told a few times now, is about my ESEE 5. I was working on a cabin up in the mountains in the dead of winter, in a spot known for its average 17 feet of snowfall. The cabin didn't have a roof, windows or doors yet, and warmth was provided by burning jobsite junk (all the timberframe from the demolition of the previous cabin, 2x4 and new timberframe trimmings). I was battoning a very large joist-maybe 4 inches by 10 inches-and was having a particularly hard time getting through a section. There wasn't a knot as far as I could see and I was already working an existing split, so I couldn't figure out what was wrong. After I punched through, I realized to my horror that I had just battoned straight through a 16 penny nail. I slightly rolled the edge, but some time with an Arkansas stone put the edge right back in shape. At this point the only way you can tell anything happened is by a gouge running the height of the blade where the nail scraped off some of the finish.

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