Busse, Fehrman, Swamp Rat?

I don't really care for the larger knives that much. I have a Mineral Mountain Bowie that is a decent chopper, but at 15" it's marginal for knife chores. I've handled the Camp Tramp, but head to head the Himalayan Imports Pen Knife Khukuri is pretty much capable of the same knife chores and chops way better.

When weight is not a factor I like to bring a decent size khukuri cause it chops as well as a hatchet but is better for machete stuff. Also I have a 16" Khukuri that is not too bad to take packing for a weekend.

On the longer, steeper trips I took this summer I brought a pocketknife and GB Mini on one and the Northstar from Bark River and a Ragweed forge double bit hatchet on the other and both of these worked great.
 
Survivalboy said:
These knives are all heavy duty users, but I really dont hear many people talk much about them on the survival forums? :confused: Is there any reason?
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Ok, let me try to make another shot. I usually find people on survival forums mainly prefer to talk about survival equipment, not the equipment they will use without emergency. Therefore they talk about compact lightweight reliable gear that can go into their PSK. Busses and other knives are simply not in that category, you do not take a large heavy knife just in case along with another knife.
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"Busses and other knives" = ?

I find the Swamp Rat InfiCoot to be a fine backpacking knife -- relatively light but strong. Not all "knives" are large or heavy.
 
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