Best Camp Knife ?

These work well for me. The SRK does most chores and the Trailmaster/Canadian Belt combo I often take when I'm roaming around the Columbia Basin in Eastern WA. A TM is overkill lots of the time so the smaller Belt Knife tags along.

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hatchetjack said:
These work well for me. The SRK does most chores and the Trailmaster/Canadian Belt combo I often take when I'm roaming around the Columbia Basin in Eastern WA. A TM is overkill lots of the time so the smaller Belt Knife tags along.

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That's a nice set up bro and if you don't mind me saying it's also one within most of our budgets.....nice !!!!:thumbup:
 
I just bought my first Bark River... a Canadian Special as a hunting/field knife. It is very sturdy and sharp with ergonomics that have to be felt under use to truly appreciate. It makes me want to mention its big brother the Canadian Camp knife for this thread. It is on the conservative side side compared to some camp knives.
 
I love big knife threads, good call pitdog. It was a fallkniven A2, has been a spyderco forester but for christmas treated myself to a 18" khukuri AND THEN A 15" one, cant make my mind up what to use yet, we,ll see come spring.
 
Pit my combo fr about the past month has been the kabar heavy bowie (camp/survival knife) and a carbon steel stockman folder. (everything else)
 
My cold steel bowie bushman will be my camp knife, cheap, pretty much bomb proof,
you can chop, dig, baton, cut up dinner, spear a charging bear in the heart, wipe it on your pant leg and stick it into a tree before you crawl into the fartsack.
RescueRiley, I may still get one of those Ka-bar bowies, how well does it chop?
 
My camp knife for over a decade now has been my Ontario SP5 Bowie. It has a 10" 1095 steel blade, takes a great edge (holds it pretty well too.)
It's done its job well but I do have a couple of gripes with it.
1st the sheath is $#!@ nuff said
2nd overall I find the blade to be to light to be an very effective chopper...it just makes me have to work to hard/swing hard to really chop into anything.
Don't get me wrong great knife for the money I think I paid like $45 for it.
I've been thinking about upgrading to a RTAK-II.
 
For me, my BK1 has everything I need for a "camp" knife (read: car camping :D). I'd even bring it for a canoe-camping trip, but not on long hikes...For that, I'd bring my BATAC for my fixed blade, and a SAK for finer tasks.

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Sorry for the large pictures...:o
 
I love the "camp knife" size knives. My users include my Busse Mud Razor (6.5"), Fehrman First strike (7.5") and a Swamp Rat Battle Rat (9.5"). I also have the Bark River Canadian Camp Knife due in in a day or two, which should fit the bill to a T.
 
Hi every one, Pit dog for the last several years untill this last Christmas I have been carrying a chris reeves knife for my every day carry and for my camp knives. My wife got me a Bark River Canadian Special in the orange handle and matching fire steel. I now carry this knife as my every day carry. It is a real nice knife for cutting food up and opening packages and mail. It makes great fuzz sticks and carves pretty darn nice for a thicker
blade. Well I ordered the Canadian Camp in the orange handle too. I am in the woods quite a bit being that I cut trees for my living and sell wood too.
Just incase I drop it or set it down it is really easy to see.
I started carrying the camp one day and the special the other day. I liked them both so much that I started carrying both of them now:eek: Having a
4" Blade and 6.5" Blade is just to awesome for words. Here are some pics.
This pic shows the blade thickness between the grohman camper and the bark river canadian special.

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This pic is the chris reevs knife that I use to carry as my edc.

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These next couple of pics are comparing the two and being worn.

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I still carry the special as my edc but when I head to the timber on goes the camp too. Those knives feel soooo good in the hand. It seems Dr.Pepper has a special and was talking about the camp also.
BUT if I could have only one in it would be the Canadian Camp 6" inchs in my thoughts is better than 4" for the do every thing Camp Knife. You can still skin,clean, and quarter game and slice up fuzz sticks and still have enough heft to do some light chopping and spiltting of small rounds of wood.
Well that is my thoughts.
Take care all,
Bryan
 
I get what your saying Pitdog, I am usually wondering what the guys here think about the knives they use. Its just an added bonus when you ask for thier thoughts about a type of knife, you get to hear about why you don't really need this knife or that knife...I love it.:D Really, I think that a big knife has its place, and these are some of my favorites right now. I don't have the Spivey any longer, I sold it unfortunately...I had to pick one to go, so that I could get more! I think that for a bargain knife that can't easily be beat, I have to go with the Scrapper6, VERY TOUGH!!...for a not so cheap choice...the Fehrman is great. For a light and fast camp knife, the Kelsey Creek is a good middle choice, and another bargain chopper/ slicer is the BK9. If you want the do it all big boy, its the FBM all the way, it chops like a machete, and takes a batoning like a log splitting wedge. It takes a wicked edge, and keeps it. Great feel and balance. If I had to choose the SHTF knife that I own, it would be the FBM. Take one of these and one of my 4" fixed blades and a SAK with a saw, maybe an Axe, and you could self sustain in relative comfort. Why go with as little as possible? 6lbs of steel, and a wool blanket, you have all you really need....throw in a couple of compass's and some firesteels...your a mountain man of modern times. Well, thats my 50cents for the week!:D



 
sicily02 said:
Well I ordered the Canadian Camp in the orange handle too.
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I've been waiting a while now for somebody to post pictures of the CDN Camp on these forums. Sicily02 - those shots are great and I like the profile of the camp knife even more so seing it in your hand. Thanks for providing the contrast shots as well as knives off your belt - that gives a really great perspective of them! Glad you like them so much.

However, with those shots you've blown my masterplan of knife purchasing schedule all to hell :grumpy:
 
Man after seeing these pics I really hope Australia post does its bit and gets my Canadian Camp to me tomorow.. Mine will have a green canvas handle with red liners.
 
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