AmmoHouse- If I had to pick between the Browning and the Ka-BAR, well if it was a permament situation IE I will only have one knife for the rest of my life and have to live off the land, I would go for the Browning. I say this because of build quality, the handle really, micarta slabs as opposed to plastic with a hidden tang.
River-8 is a member here, he just posted in the survival outing failure thread, look him up and shoot him an email, if you can't find him send me a PM
DWK2- with the fires I built, plenty of heat was coming through to our feet with our feet on the ground. PLENTY, at times we were about 10 feet away from that ring!