Good Camping Knife

The answer is yes, bring both. Bring a gerber and buy a fixed blade knife. Since this is your first time with a fixed blade, get something inexpensive like kabar, mora, buck, or cold steel. Every person has his own style of camping / hiking, so you want to start cheap until you figure out exactly what you need out of your knife.

The fixed blade should be between 4" to 6". And it's best if you can hold it before you buy it, so you have a feel of the weight. Remember, you're gonna drag this sucker everywhere.

Your best knife in the woods is the knife light enough for you to always carry. A $30 air force survival knife in your hand is better than $300 Busse in the car 5 miles away.
 
I'd recommend an RC-4, fallkniven F1 or Bark River (Fox River, Bravo-1, auroa or any other 4" blade they sell). Alternatively check out the maker's section above and look at the fixed blades for sale sub-forum. You often see excellent bushcraft style blades up for very good prices! Some great local (BF) makers include: Bryan Breeden, JK-Knives, NWA, Koster, Koyote knives, CKE2, SDS, and many more!
 
Vic Farmer. A simple tool that I could survive very well with.:thumbup: You might check out the fine Knife Makers on this site, Many of them can fix you right up.:D
 
Like sharp eyes has already said - what are you going to be doing with it.

A gerber multi tool is fine, I carry a leatherman but same principle, very useful and not scary - but like all multi tools and saks, its a bit of a comprimise, so a good fixed blade is useful too, and maybe another folder.
Really depends on what you are doing, if you are going deep bush and living off the land then get a fixed and another folder, but beware of the weight, if you are mostly city camping then just a good solid folder should do (ZT line springs to mind), along with your multi tool.
 
I haven't even read the previous posts but I'll tell you to bring a medium to large folder and a 5" to 7" drop or clip point blade wide and tough enough to withstand batoning firewood. Take a Spyderco Delica or Endura and a Swamp Rat Knife Works 'RatManDu' and all your bases are covered.
 
For camping and hiking I would recommend a small folder (Benchmade Mini Griptilian, SAK, Spyderco Delica, for example) and a lightweight fixed blade.
The new Mora Craftline Allround is a great lightweight fixed blade.
 
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