Hard Use/Fixed-Blade Production Faves?

[rowdy27]

My favorites are:
9.5" Cold Steel Trailmaster
8" Ontario Sp-6
7" Becker BK-7
6" Timberline Zambezi
5" Kabar Short Black
4" Kershaw Echo

How about you?

 

[thebladeguy]

Ranger knives RD series.

TBG

 

[MikeH]

Busse Zero Tolerance Natural Outlaw
Busse Zero Tolerance Steel Heart
Swamp Rat Battle Rat

 

[rowdy27]

My knees start knockin' when a knife costs over $200!! Lol.

 

[Franciscomv]

Bark River Forrester. Nothing comes close.

 

[Archer26]

1. Cold Steel ODA.
2. SOG Seal Pup.
3. Old Sheffield Bowie.
4. Cold Steel Master Tanto, (to dear now to use)

 

[Dr. Thor]

Swamp Rat Howler

Busse Magnum EU17, #12 out of 28... And yes, I beat on it like a rented donkey.

 

[Rupestris]

>9" RD9
>6" Becker BK7
>4" Howling Rat
<4" Bark River Woodland

 

[Bob W]

Ek Bowie
Buck 119
Camillus CUDA QCB

 

[johnwaynesandw]

one of my all time fav. is my ontario. here is a link to the pic. http://putfile.com/pic.php?pic=3/7217072131.jpg&s=x11

I am more into folders that can be carried every day, but when I am in the wood or when I am doing yard work the ontario is close by. I have never had a prob. with it and holds an edge very well. The butt is good for hammering in a bad situation. John

 

[CUTS LIKE A KRIS]

Kershaw Outcast- but I have to say a kukris beats most of what I have seen

 

[gutsy]

ranger knives rd series. beckers havent gave me any durability problems either.

 

[DGG]

Spyderco Moran FB01.

 

[littleknife]

10-15" Himalayan Import khukuries: British Army Service (BAS: 15" overall lenghth), Baby Ganga Ram Special (BGRS: 17-18" oal), Sirupati (20-21" oal).
7" Becker BK-7
5" Eriksson Mora No. 2 1/2"
4" Eriksson Mora No. 22 or No. 2

 

[Archer26]

I'm stunned some of these knives get used, if I had a Busse or a swamp Rat I would bow down and worship it!!!!
I stopped with the Cold Steel Master Tanto when it reached £250.00!!!

 

[T.K.C.]

The only fixed blades I have are: Benchmade Rant (truck knife), SOG Seal 2000, and Seal Pup. I want a Ranger, Fehrman, and a Busse (one CAN dream.).

 

[muzzleup]

1. Trident 5" Oberland 01, S30V
2. Chris Reeve 5.5" Green Beret, or 6" blade Neil Roberts Warrior, S30V
3. BK&T BK-7, BK-9, Companion and my favorite but no longer made is the Magnum Camp, 0170-6B
4. Knives of Alaska 5" Alaskan Camp Bush Knife.
5. Just about any of the Chris Reeve One Piece knives.

List is not necessarily in order of preference.

Ciao
Ron Cassel
:thumbup:

 

[Sulaco]

BK&T BK-7
Fallkniven F1
BRK&T Highland

I haven't used any of these much (I just got them all within the last two weeks) but they are all going to be users. Especially the F1.

 

[dniice87]

Swamp Rat Camp Tramp :thumbup:

 

[dawg]

An $8.95 Frost Swedish Army knife (looks like a Mora). I use it on tall ship rigging,elk and bear skinning,around the ranch for everything you can think off including a thrower at wood pile rats,open a thick plastic carton or two without re steeling..Cutting blocks (whittling) for shivs on boats,slicing cable covers etc...on top of which, it's good for filleting salmon and trout. I beat the crap out of it and it comes back for more.I've used it as a dive knife on barges and a hook to hang my gear out of bear and cougar reach in the field. If I had spent a couple of hundred dollars on some the knives in these forums, there is absolutely no way they'd stay in the box as eye candy or a "Well I have a....." Nor would I think a manufacturer with any true faith in his blade want such a fate for their product.Buy it for what you need a blade for and use it for what you bought it for. To be honest, I can afford any knife made.Period. (I'm not hurtin'...) but I choose blades to be my work companions and my work is both diversified and hard.My military experience was in the specialized areas (not a Remington Raider BTW...) and in that world, I learned small is usually more versatile and less problems of carry. Fantasy thinking is better left to movies and sleep.