It is a subtle, yet important, distinction between "missed" and "omitted." I have full faith that pitdog included it for shear hilarity.
Kman, you obviously want a rec for a big knife. Get a scrapyard dogfather if you can find one. It is made from s7 steel, which jackhammer bits are also made from. None but the mighty battle mistress is tougher. As an owner I can assure you that it will stand up to whatever you have in mind.
I'm not sure where this "rambo" blade thing is coming from. The 3 knives I ordered are F1, B1 and esse5. Those are all 5 inches or less. Nothing rambo about them. I also never asked for a huge knife just a tough one. The most "rambo" version I considered was a ratmandu but if that's a rambo blade then there are lots of posers on here that don't need that kind of knife to go make a hot dog stick with it.
Also you're the one with a battle misstress (rambo blade right?) not me. What do you need that for other than just to have one? Infact if most things can be done with walmart knives then why do ppl here preach busse et. al if you arn't actually in theater or a wilderness guide or something of that sort?
Maybe because you want to know that when it's getting dark, it's fricking cold and your tired the last thing you want to worry about is a plastic handle on your knife breaking or a thin walmart blade chipping when you accidently hit a bone? Who knows though right?
I also don't think that the majority of people on here spent years testing knives before buying more expensive ones. Most people will research something before buying it to buy a good product from the start and not go through the process of using something till failure. Buying a car would be an example. Imagine they even have magazines that test drive them for you so you can read about how good they are. We ask more knowledgable people for advice to aid us in making a good decision.
I did nothing more coming here. I have no experience with survial knives and as I have said before I use a dozier yps (3.5" blade mind you, not rambo) a gerber bone saw and a $20 forschner deboning knife. I would like to think that those choices would label me as a sensible person that likes a good tool for the job at hand.
I want a sensible good tool for a do it all knife. Perhaps this is a vain quest and there is no such thing. Maybe I should just keep the f1 and buy an a1 and a folder like the rsk mk1 and call it a day? Maybe I don't even need a survival knife cause chances are there won't be a nuclear meltdown and if there is I live in a place russia has nukes aimed at anyways so what's the point?
This same argument always comes up on rifle forums as well. The one do it all rifle for north america. If you could only have 1 to do it all which would it be? Has to be dependable, ammo available at any mom and pop shop and so on. They argue that till the cows come home. Seems to be the same thing for knives. There is no one rifle that does everything perfect but there are some that do most things well. This is the kind if knife I want. One knife that does most things well. The knife I take portaging with me or camping with the kids or hunting or whatever.
I have to get up early tomorrow and scout for moose and if those knives don't get here in the mail soon I can't even use them this year anyways.
