FIRE vs KNIFE

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you are stuck in the middle of a jungle, which one would you rather have? A knife or some type of fire starter that would last you for a while?

personally i go with knife, because a knife just makes me feel so much safer, and there's a lot of things you can do with a knife, including making fire drills.
 
Fire, so I could burn down the menacing jungle surrounding me.

Just kidding.

If I had to make the choice, and I can't forsee the scenario where I wouldn't have a firestarter with my knife, I'd take the knife. I always have some sort of firesteel in my sheathes, but I guess if I lost the sheath.....
 
I would go with a good knife too. I mean while you can make both fire and knife from nature, fire is fire while a good steel knife is so much better than a flint napped knife.
 
Is this assuming that the person has absolutely no fire starting ability without the starter? If I couldn't start the fire without the starter than absolutely the starter, I like my knife but It only cuts things, Id rather live than have some nicely chopped tomatoes.
 
A knife of course, because with a knife you can make the tools you need to start a fire.

Of course you can make a knife with fire, but it's a little harder.
 
I don't know anything about jungle survival, but it seems to me that fire probably isn't going to be a huge immediate necessity in that setting, so I'd go with the knife. As suggested, I could then make a bow and drill for fire if I wanted to cook something or boil water (assuming I had something to boil it in).

Now, if the scenario were changed to put me on the side of a mountain with below freezing temperatures or something like that, then my choice, if I actually could choose, may change.
 
There is an old Norwegian saying, "A knifeless man is a lifeless man."
 
I`ve heard alot of different versions of the saying, but my favourite version would be:
"I`d rather be lifeless than knifeless."
So, as such, i`d pick a knife over a firestarter every day.
(But i wouldn`t say no to a LMF Army Firesteel either.)
 
I agree with Salamandar42.
Hot jungle = knife. Canadian Winter = Fire.
 
kgd said:
I agree with Salamandar42.
Hot jungle = knife. Canadian Winter = Fire.
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In Finnish winter, I'll still take the knife any time rather than just the fire. In fact, I'll take the knife in any winter and any weather. :)
 
For a more balanced outlook you might ask the same question on fireforums.com also. :D Marcus
 
With a knife you can also cut open your Taun-Taun and crawl inside its body to keep warm. :D
 
Jack London's - Yukon man had a sheath knife - but what he really wanted was a fire!!!

'To Build A Fire' - 1908
 
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