A Survival Knife By Name !!!

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pitdog

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How do ya define a survival knife....well for me the one universal feature should be that it won't let ya down !

Size is kind of a personal matter but if the chips are down this knife should be in it for the long haul, it might be used to chop,cut,pry,hammer,dig and god only knows what else !

Today I took out a knife that used to be my most used knife, I've beat on this knife so bad in the past. It used to be my go to knife for making kindling for my woodstove, I'd batton the hell outta this blade making various sized pieces of wood and then shaving some into fuzzy's afterwards. Once I battoned the poor thing through a nail that was hidden in some wood and the only damage was a tiny ding that you could just feel with ya finger nail, sharpened straight out !

Anyway to me it qualifies as a survival knife, hell it even has survival in it's name...My MOD4 Survival Knife:

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You can tell it's quite a handfull eh:

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Still makes quite fine fuzzies when needed though :

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Is it as good as my Chopweiler...NO! Is it as usefull as my Knatchet....No !

Would I ever get rid of it...No ! I guess this was my first decent blade, I bought it when I was 17 which was.....ermm...well hell of a long time ago.......cough ,1987 to be exact !!!:o

One of the main things I like about this blade is that it was made not too far from where I lived and in a city which I think of as the steel capital of the world years ago, if it had Sheffield steel on the blade then you knew it would be decent stuff.

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I have always liked those. Had one a long time ago but I could never get it sharp. Wish I would have kept it though and I could have had someone reprofile it. Sure is a solid beast of a knife though!
 
tknife said:
I have always liked those. Had one a long time ago but I could never get it sharp. Wish I would have kept it though and I could have had someone reprofile it. Sure is a solid beast of a knife though!
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Was it the convexed version like mine or the more recent sabre ground version ?
 
It was an older one, looked more like yours. I got it back in my late teens too, but traded it probably 10 years ago.
 
i was lucky enough to have a play with one a few years ago, you could never be under knifed with that and it is ...as you said..a survival knife, fundamently sound. damn you now i,m going to buy one..
 
Oh, I really hate to use that old cliche, but a survival knife is.....'the one I'm carrying'.

Really, I change up my knives a bunch 'cause I'm too sentimental to part with any of them unless it is to trade for something different. I bash and smash 'em all. Some of the smaller ones get a bit of a break because they aren't pushed through knots in thick wood, but they don't get that much of a break :D

I firmly believe that I gotta trust the knife thats with me. If I don't trust it, I don't want to take it. If I don't want to take it with me then it might as well be one of those ceramic figurines that collect dust in the corner of my mom's cabinet of delicate $hit. Oh, maybe I could lay that pretty, non-trustable knife on a little white doily tablecloth or something....but nah, if I did that where would I put my Wildertool blade? :D
 
A lot of people say that a survival knife is the one on you when you're in survival situation and although that's true, its not in the spirit of the question IMO. To me a survival knife means that its a stand alone tool. It's your only blade. To me that's strong knife that holds its edge even under abuse but not necessarily a chopper. 5-8 inches long by 3/16-1/4 inch.
Do I own such a knife? No I'm on blade forums, I have survival kniveS. I have no use for a stand alone blade.;)And if I had to pick a survival blade, it would be a hatchet.
 
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I came close to buying one of those in the 80s myself,pretty stout blades.The knife I have that would come closest to that would be my Becker Companion,Camillus version,it's nearly indestructable.
 
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