Fortunately, I can afford one, so I received a Becker BK7 today. My preference in a combat or survival knife is a blade shorter than 7 inches on the premise that if an item isn't comfortable to carry, I won't have it with me when I need it. Well, the BK7 measures up as a survival and a combat knife. So then, I went to an assortment of fixed blades to find the one that felt the best - BK7, Fallkniven F1, Fallkniven A1, Al Mar, Ka-Bar Mark 1?? It wasn't all my knives, just the ones in the office for the day. The clear winner was the Russian Kizlyar Supreme. If I were wearing a heavy glove, it might have been one of the other fixed blades. The close runner up, losing by only a whisper was the Ontario TFI. The TFI is now discontinued and completely unavailable. It is the combat/survival knife that I recommended to people for many years.