440c, did I give correct advice to owner?

GibsonFan said:
Yup, you have a strong point there.

Extreme example, I COULD clean a fish with my TM and I COULD whittle down an oak with my Clipper, if I had to. .
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yes, very true Gibson.

A guy on another forum was telling me how some believe that poor kid who got his arm stuck in some rocks could have used a better knife to cut his arm off with.
From what I remember all he had was this little folder to slowly cut his arm off with.
Thats what life is like, making do with what you have.

But when I think about it some more, why would we want just a slightly better/longer blade for the guy to cut his own arm off with, when if he had been carrying a "user knife" he could have just chipped the rock away from his arm?
 
Good grief, I never thought of it that way, Allan. I would surely sacrifice the finest knife to dig myself out of a mess like that! :eek:
 
Given that situation,arm stuck,one knife...

What knife thats already sold in the stores would you go with?
It would have to be a very strong knife to take 2 or 3 days of beating against a rock. And no matter what it dare not snap on you....
 
As a wild guess I gotta say a Western carbon steel bowie, the big'un. It's a slab of steel, I think it would dull fast but bend/break slow. The new Marine bayonets look pretty sturdy too, but I haven't tried one out. D2 has a lot of fans, maybe one of the Ka-Bar new generation models would work. I would not choose 440-C for that kind of work, I just have more faith in carbon/tool steels' toughness.
 
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