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I have snapped fixed blades doing less than that. Goes to show material and finish goes along way.
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Beefy Folders vs. Fixed blades...
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My solution is get a folder and fixed blade
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Folders are more ease of EDC, most fixed blades are going to be stronger because of integrity of the whole blade. I love tank type knives, and I carry a ZT 200, Kershaw Offset and a few others becuase of that, but if I could, yeah, I might carry a ZT 121 around, love that blade!
I also have a Gerber Patriot and a MOD knife I got in the desert while I was "visiting" both are great blades, but you cannot carry them out in public!
I also have a Gerber Patriot and a MOD knife I got in the desert while I was "visiting" both are great blades, but you cannot carry them out in public!
Some years ago, I reached my 'enlightenment'... a time when I learned that my old Marbles and more recent Buck 192 Vanguards, much less my Buck 110 & 301 folder pocket knives, were woefully inadequate. I needed a 'proper' bushcraft knife... like a Bark River - or a custom Bayley, etc. Phooey. I never wanted with 'just' a Buck 110 in my pocket when I was in the woods - on purpose - by design. Oh, sure, with a car handy, my late Dad's old WWII KaBar - and even a Plumb camp hatchet - were handy. The last time I hiked in the Smokies with my then teenage boys, now 38 & 42, I was sorry I had carried the KaBar, my Buck 110 and Vic SAK were all I used. Our hiking tent was fine - even made pegs for it the first night - with the SAK. I did cheat - walked the trail 2.5 miles each way back to the ranger's station to refill the water bottles (I didn't feel like boiling creek water!). The only times I used the KaBar, I could have used the 110. Baton? Never heard of such - until my enlightenment. Of course, I was born in Brooklyn - later lived in Bayside, LI. I recall our 'fallout shelter' in a piece of a local park cut-off by the LI freeway/Throggs Neck Bridge approach cloverleaf. We regularly 'camped' there - with waxed milk cartons full of charcoal - cans of beans and minestrome soup - canteens of water. One guy would have a Boy Scout knife. We were twelve or thirteen - roughing it. Perhaps fatalistic, the CD movies at school of a Ruskie H-bomb's fireball over Manhattan might just include us anyway, it was a less than fun period. I remember Krushchev driving out on the LIE after taking his shoe off in the UN. Okay, the cans of soup & beans were good. We worried about the guy with the BSA knife!
My favorite example of a stout folder to carry in my pocket while hiking nowadays? A 110 still is a good choice. A ZT - or a BM, like my 610 Rukus, is a great choice. I just don't need a Rambo knife! YMMV.
Stainz
My favorite example of a stout folder to carry in my pocket while hiking nowadays? A 110 still is a good choice. A ZT - or a BM, like my 610 Rukus, is a great choice. I just don't need a Rambo knife! YMMV.
Stainz