Armageddon Now!

Esav Benyamin said:
What would you consider a small sapling? I used to cut a fresh sapling for a hiking staff when I hit the woods. Took less than ten minutes to cut down and trim smooth with a SAK saw and spearpoint blade.
Click to expand...


I'm not sure what he considers a small sapling, but the point is that what will take you 10 or more minutes to do with yours I can do in 2 minutes with mine. I can build a shelter and have fire wood in the time it takes you to cut down two small sapplings. I will be nice and warm and shelterred in 1/5th the time you will. I can also dig out my shelter as well to maintain some extra warmth, you cannot. Like I said the SAK is a good tool, but would not be my choice in a last ditch wilderness escapade. Read my post and go out and try all that stuff with it. I have tried some of it.

Of course, the right toolfor the right job is always the case.
 
I would have to go with a Buck product, probably the 119. The reason for this is that they have the 4-Ever Warranty and will replace the knife for the lifetime of the original purchaser against normal usage. I can see other companies coming up with some post-appocolyptic nuclear excuse as to why they cannot honor your warranty but I wouldn't expect that from Buck.
 
digdeep said:
..complete chaos and economy shutdown due to world-wide disaster (think nuclear contamination, meteor striking earth, nature going wild: hurricanes, tornados, tsusamis, etc.)...
Click to expand...

Hey look, we all love knives, but we also watch WAY too much TV and movies, and read too little non-fiction, me thinks. None of us will become knife-toting Bruce Willis or Steven Seagal heroes. Think about what digdeep is actually saying....take world-wide nuclear contamination, for example.

All food will be poisonous to eat....world-wide. :( Rotting corpses will breed fatal disease epidemics around the world. :eek: Those who survived the initial nuclear incident will die by puking their rotting guts out. :barf: I don't wanna do that, and I don't wanna see my loved ones doing that, thank you very much!

The most useful knife will be one with a hollow handle, containing cyanide pills for me and my family...good-bye, cruel world!

Sheesh! What a topic to start the new year! Have a nice day! :D
 
digdeep said:
Just wondering, if the world as we know it (I know that phrase is well worn) was to suddenly go into complete chaos and economy shutdown due to world-wide disaster (think nuclear contamination, meteor striking earth, nature going wild: hurricanes, tornados, tsusamis, etc.)

In such a case, if there were only one knife you could have in order to survive and try to maintain some semblance of existence and your family's, what knife would you most want to have?
Click to expand...
Cobalt said:
I can build a shelter and have fire wood in the time it takes you to cut down two small sapplings. I will be nice and warm and shelterred in 1/5th the time you will. I can also dig out my shelter as well to maintain some extra warmth, you cannot.
Click to expand...
First of all, you're assuming that The End Of The World As We Know It is going to throw us all into the woods. In my response to the original post, I suggested a small fixed blade, but a SAK can do a lot, too, especially if you aren't reduced to "Tarzan kill!"

What if you need to re-create or maintain simple technology?

Anyway, I took ten minutes lazing along on a stroll through an urban park, neatly trimming side branches off that sapling. If I need it for burning or building, I saw halfway through and then snap it off. Maybe two minutes, tops.

Stop, think, plan, -- then cut something. Cold, tired, under mortal pressure, barbarian hordes forming on the other side of town ... no, I don't think I'll be swinging a big blade or an axe. Relax, use minimal effort, stay low.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
"Tarzan kill!"

What if you need to re-create or maintain simple technology?
.
Click to expand...

LOL. Tarzan, as long as I have jane with me.

To each his own I guess. But Technology is not my primary concern. If we are not talking wilderness, then it really doesn't atter as abandone cities offer all kinds of tools. So I assumed we were discussing worst scenario which would be no civilazation available. You assume something different. But in your assumption, I would not even worry since I could obtain a leatherman at a local abandone wallmart.:D

As for the sapling, I can still cut it much quicker than you can and the more we need to do the faster I will do it. For all the things I have already mentioned the mult-tool will not work. Only some of them. Nepalese people can build their homes out of a 15 inch khukuri, they can use it to dig, cook and defend with it. It is a large blade. Talk with any survival expert and see what their most important tool is. Don't get me wrong I think the SAK is worthy of carrying and having, I have several. But if only one, it would not be it for me and a horde of experienced/knowledgeable survivalists.
 
Well, as much as I'd like to have a tank knife on me, like my fixed blade from Brian Goode, I'd probably go with my Victorinox Outrider just for its versatility.
 
For Armageddon only one knife will do, the Fehrman Final Judgement:eek:

It it were me in this hypothetical situation it would be my Fehrmam Extreme Judgement or my Battle Rat.
 
SAK for sure. I actually HAVE built shelters with it, and it's far more versatile than my big blades...
 
I'm gonna have to go with a good old fashioned Ka-Bar, if it's good enough for the Marines it should be good enough for whatever I'd need
 
"I can build a shelter and have fire wood in the time it takes you to cut down two small sapplings. I will be nice and warm and shelterred in 1/5th the time you will. I can also dig out my shelter as well to maintain some extra warmth, you cannot. Like I said the SAK is a good tool, but would not be my choice in a last ditch wilderness escapade."

=============================

I'd use some sort of a SAK with a saw blade to cut myself a hefty club. Then find some weak weapon-less person with a cozy shelter and beat the hell out of them. I'd help myself to his canned food, liquor and women. I'd also befriend some very large, vicious dogs to protect me against someone with a bigger SAK and even greater appetite for cozy shelter, canned vittles and women. ;)
 
only one huh.. ill pick the Stratofighter.. yeah! :D :D :D
its so tough you can even use it to climb walls standing on it.. :D :D
 
I think I'd also have to go with an SAK of sorts, if no other tools were allowed. Granted a big knife can do somethings a smaller knife can't, but not much.

I'd feel pretty confident in my ability to make a game trap, and then clean the captured critter with the SAK. I'd probably have some sort of fire starting method with me to cook it as well. As primitive and survivalistic as I can be sometimes, I still like my meat cooked.

In a real emergency survival situation, I think the best thing to have would be a knife with a good sheath that has a pouch attached for carrying small survival items (fishing line, hooks, needle, thread, compass, etc.). With that fixed blade and the SAK in my pocket, I'd be set.

But the flaw with this game is, that situation would never arise. Knives are easily portable. I could pack at least fifteen to twenty knives on me or in a pack and not feel loaded down.

Actually, though... if a meteor strikes the earth, most of us are going to be too busy relieving ourselves in our pants to go look for the perfect knife for survival, so we'll all be stuck with what's in our (now wet and probably stinky) pocket. For me, today that would be a Vic Soldier, Native and my new Buck 55. With that assortment, I probably wouldn't last three days.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top