Bushcraft Fixed

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monk71

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Hello all,

Which is your choice for a bushcraft knife?

Can the RC-3 be categorized as a bushcraft knife?

Thanks.

Frank
 
The RC-3 was originally designed as an EDC for the law enforcement community with cross over potential to bushcraft. It has a relatively thin blade at 0.125" which makes it perfectly suitable for most bushcraft chores, but sometimes is viewed as a bit thin for the purpose of survival knives. The RC-3 makes a nice light weight knife and very capable slicer, skinner and wood carver. Its full flat ground helps with its slicing as does the smoothed coating. The 1095 is a dream to sharpen and maintain a razor edge. A modified version with rounded pommel was released as the 'bushcraft version' of it. The sheath is incredibly flexible in the amount of carry options.

Ratcutlery also offers the RC-4 which has a longer 4" cutting surface considered more optimal by many for bushcraft. The RC-4 is also thicker at 0.187" providing more crossover as a survival knife. I own the RC-4 and thoroughly enjoy it. It is a capable slicer and can be used for food prep due to the full flat grind. I haven't found its thickness to be much of a problem unless slicing onions and potatoes. It handles tough tasks like prying and batoning with ease. The sheath for the RC-4 is a kydex one with mutliple carry options.

The fallkniven F1 considered by many to be an almost perfect bushcraft blade is right in the middle of the RC-3 and RC-4 in terms of blade length and thickness. The F1 is a laminated stainless though and has a full conves grind compared to the flat + V-shaped grind of the Rats. Any of the three would serve you well for bushcrafting.
 
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