Fixed or Folder??

[Quijebo]

Just wanted to do an informal poll here...

What do you prefer out on a camping trip, or hunting: Big Beefy Fixed blade or a nice sharp folder?

I personally like my BUCKMASTER. Nice, big, beefy, heavy. Always gets the job done

 

[TOMBSTONE]

Well,I'd have to say if I were limited to just one blade,then I would go with a nice fixed blade.However;the best possible combination is a good fixed blade for big cutting jobs and a SAK for all the little cutting/maintenance chores.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I go along with that, but around the neighborhood when I go for a walk in the woods, a big blade scares the little kids, or maybe their parents! so I carry a Vaquero Grande which does the big blade work, and a Leatherman Supertool for the small stuff.

Going up into the hills I wouldn't leave without at least my SRK, and I like to take the Bushman, too.

 

[hopethisisnttaken]

I would have to go with a fixed blade. Folders get dirt, blood,whatever gunk in them and can get diffucult to manage. A fixed blade in my opinion is going to be the more reliable in a hunting/camping type enviroment.

 

[Tommi]

I see folders (all but SAKs) only as backups (on a camping trip). I use SAKs knife blades very seldon when I have a puukko with me so for me its a tool not a knife.

I still take some folders with me as playing with them in the forests is as much fun as in town.

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[Griffon]

Originally posted by Quijebo:
What do you prefer out on a camping trip, or hunting: Big Beefy Fixed blade or a nice sharp folder?

Isn't there an other alternative? (And I don't mean Big Beefy Folder.)

For a given weight, you usually get "more knife" from a fixed blade than from a folder, so unless size is important folders are always at a disadvantage.
And for a given weight a large knife is at a disadvantage compared to an axe (the <a href="http://www.gransfors.com/htm_eng/produkter/p_vildmark.htm">smallest</a> <a href="http://www.gransfors.com/">Gränsfors</a> is about the same weight as a Trailmaster).



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[richard rosvall]

FIXED BLADE!!! I love heading into the wilderness where being "PC" isn't important. Carry what you want, any size, use it or abuse it, just don't endanger any species except yourself!!

 

[MNH]

For my needs in the woods I prefer a small fixed blade, what I think most of you would think of as a very small fixed blade. A BM Nimravus is at the upper limit size wise, ant the Cub is much better all round.

There are places where a big knife would be handy, but they are few and far between.


Mike

 

[Paracelsus]

3-5 inch fixed blade (8 to 10 OAL). I usually have a Leatherman ST along and at least one folder. I find a blade bigger than five inches is just too heavy and inconvenient for most of my needs.

 

[kirch]

If I had to pick only one, it'd have to be my Leatherman - if MacGyver had one of these instead of a puny SAK, he'd rule the world now. But I prefer to bring either my Grohmann/DH Russell #1 or #3 with me when camping or hunting.

 

[Rugger]

Last trip- 3 weeks ago
- old "beater" kukri
- Livesay Air Assault
- Swisstool
- Spyderco Wegner
- small SAK
- 4" Okapi
- 3" Opinel

Everything saw use except the Okapi & the Opinel.
(BTW- I usually get shanghaied as "Camp Cook")

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[This message has been edited by Rugger (edited 10-05-2000).]