Bushcraft/survival knife: exposed tang for hammering?

peripatew

peripatew

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Just curious how many people want this feature in their knives? I've got a few with it, but have never used it.

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I've never used it. Doesn't mean it's useless I guess, I've just never found a need. Plus those extended tangs can dig into your hand when drilling.
 
Do you mean the extended pommel like on a Busse (as well as others)?
If so, yes. I use mine extensively.
 
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I've found it useful on smalle knives when batoning.. sometimes the knife blade starts to drift in thick wood, and you end up with very little of the tip left for the baton to strike.. wih an exposed tang you can safely ound on the handle to psh more of the blade through as I'm doing here with a plain old mora

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I used to think the exposed pommel was needed for a survival knife. But it seems pretty dangerous in many ways to actually use it that way. In batonining it could save your scales from getting beat up though. I'd rather use a rock or log for pounding stuff. I have used the spine of the knife to do light tapping though.
 
I have it in my Charlie Ridge Survival knife. I use the butt for striking my firesteel.
 
I have used it quite often on my Chopweiler for the reason mentioned by Riley, I have often wished some of my other knives had one. The blade I am getting John of JK knives to make me will have one, I'd rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it !!!!


Sorry to spoil the run of gold !!!!
 
I have a hardened exposed butt on my Fowler camp blade, but I use it as my flint and steel striker.
 
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