go-to knife in an emergency

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All this talk about bushcraft knives got me thinking about which knife I own would be the one I wanted for sure to have on me in a survival situation. This is an old and frequently-enough repeated discussion, but the knife you WILL have in an emergency is the one you carry all the time (cuz you never know when you will find yourself in that situation).

Anyway, when the severe weather (tornadoes) passed through two nights ago (and leveled an entire town south of here), the knife in my pocket (in addition to my spyderco paramil) was my Busse BA-3. Yup, in my pocket (in its factory sheath). OK, it does not live there all the time, but it is the one pocketable fixed blade that I don't worry about abusing. (I save my AD just for cutting things, and I just got a warden).

BA-3 = Small enough to be easy to always have with you, large enough for almost every job requiring a knife.

Wish I had bought an ABA when they were offered.
 
SFNO for now.

My CP NO-e might overtake it, but I don't know for sure since she is out of my hands right now.
 
I would want to grab my ASH-1 :thumbup: ... but I need some pants for it before that would make sense. :o

Although, for some reason, I think I'd feel lost without my CG FBM. :)

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I would think that any permutation of the Badger Attack would suffice. My BA-E would be high on my list. An NO-E would be good as well, but it is a bit heavy to lug around all the time. I wouldn't pass up a Camp Tramp in this situation either. Sorry for the slightly blasphemous comment.
 
Give some thought to the original Satin Jack. I'm starting to like mine more and more.

Of course, I've never had the pleasure of handling an ABA or BA-III.
 
OldPhysics said:
Give some thought to the original Satin Jack. I'm starting to like mine more and more.

Of course, I've never had the pleasure of handling an ABA or BA-III.
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The original SJ is a great blade :thumbup: (but probably not going to be on my hip when the disaster strikes)

Leaner Meaner is always with me, I think it'd do anything i needed it to in a pinch...

If I had time to open the safe (um, actually the "knife drawer") and pick one, it would probably be the ZTSJ for anything "urban", or the BM-e for anything "in the wild."
 
I have my AD with me all the time now.....ALL DA TIME!

Otherwise an SFNO as they are with me all da other time.
 
The knife I have set aside for that very purpose is the Street Scrapper 4. Light, good size, great blade shape for utility, indestructible, and best of all made of INFI.

My Becker Companion is next in line. Little heavy is all -- wouldn't be good if you had to be economical about weight.
 
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When tornadoes touched down west of Austin some months back I grabbed my Dogfather. I thought if the house were to come down around us I may need to chop through some live electrical wiring and I really thought the Res-C handle would be a good thing in that circumstance.
 
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