Airborne Ranger Combat Knife

I'd personally prefer a Ranger Ready Detachment knife for an all-purpose camping/survival knife over an Airborne Combat Knife.

Here's why:

  • Micarta handles vs cordwrapped.
  • More of a user bladeshape with the flat ground edge vs. the sabre grind or double-edge of the Combat Knife. Double edges are great for throwing and thrusting, but aren't practical for slicing.
  • Throwing knives in general aren't good utility knives.

If your need is for an all-purpose camping or utility, I'd say go with a Ready Detachment over an Airborne Combat.
 
I agree generally with DA above - I love my Airborne Ranger Combat, and i use it a fair amount for chopping and prying, but it really just has too high of a thickness-to-width ratio to be a great slicer in all but the softest media. It is a decent chopper though and i like the option of having one edge thick for chopping and the other edge really really thick for bashing through bone, metal, rock, and other things that would wreck a less tough blade. if you need the toughest blade in the universe, don't plan on doing any delicate slicing (or have another knife for that), and like the double-edge option for throwing, digging, fighting, prying, etc., then i couldn't reccommend a badder blade. If you are sick of breaking or ruining knives like i was, get it. this knife will never fail, ever. period. and it's probably the only knife i can say that about, except maybe the 3/8" thick S7 knife i just got from Justin. He makes the world's toughest knives, no doubt. General all-purpose camp/utility knife though? probably not what i would choose. The RD series is tough enough for all but the most outrageous abuses. For everything beyond that, there's the ARC.
 
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