Gerber LMF 2 or Sog Seal Pup?

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If you have handled both these knives which one did like better?

Thanks for any input!:thumbup:
 
I have both knives, multiples of the SOG. The seal pup is a good fighting knife, well balanced, simple, no bull but made out of Aus8 which is soft at best. The LMF is a very beastly well designed survival knife made out of inferior 440C that chips if you look at it wrong. I had the gerber out last week for a 3 day camping trip and it looks like a saw edge now, just using it for basic camping duties. The fit and feel are perfect, but gerber has such horrendous qc and materials.... if they made it out of a decent heat treated steel it'd be a bangup knife, but it isn't.
 
I would go for the SOG for almost any use ,also it`s lighter and more agile in the hand .And the SOG just looks good.
 
I've never owned - actually, never touched - a SOG knife. My son gave me a Gerber LMF II knife over a year back. I am not fond of serrations - the Gerber is my only such knife. Personally, I like any of the other knives below better. The Buck 650 Nighthawk shares the 420HC steel - but it's heat treat is superior - really keeps a razor edge, like the 1095 on the other two examples. Oddly, the old KaBar is still a decent knife. The RAT RC-5 is my favorite, of course - even if it is the most expensive - and heaviest. I thought this was a decent comparison:

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Of the two, I like the SOG best. I have owned both. I will second the Buck Nighthawk as a better choice than either.
 
I have owned both, the LMFII fit my hand better, but I didn't like the bulky sheath setup.

The Sog is a much smaller knife and carries lighter.

I sold both of them.

Honestly if you haven't bought anything yet, I would look into a RAT RC-3 or RC-4

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