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Hypothetical:

You have 2 knives: one chopper and one slicer on you. You're stranded in the middle of the woods with no traffic thus have the need to survive for the foreseeable future. As fate has it you lose one. Which one would you not like to lose most?

Also please name what your chopper and slicer would be and why you chose that.

This is your choice. So for example if you have a mora that can be used to process wood (not like a chopper but enough to get by battoning etc...) and slice as well and you would rather keep that please pick slicer. Vice versa for chopper too (even if its not technically a chopper but if it can be used to hack, that counts as a chopper) if you can use the tip intricately like those people who goes into the jungle only armed with a machete please pick chopper.

My choice would be:

Chopper: Busse TG
Slicer: mora 2000

I choose chopper. Its short enough to do tasks that needs dexterity like gutting fish etc... but big enough to chop (it will take longer than a machete but it will cut through large chunks of wood).

Have fun ladies and gents! ;)
 
Depends on the weather and the area. Mora 90% of the time and when the weather's real bad I'd go with a silky. I'd swap the silky for a SYKCo 711 if it just HAS to be a chopper.
 
I want the chopper.

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A stone ax can get you far, flint knapped stones can process a deer nearly as fast as modern butcher knives so in reality you could get by with neither. That being said I'd rather have a slicer. It's lighter, less weight is always better and if I need to do fine work like for some kind of first aid our skinning I'd rather have a rubber shape knife.

As far as what I'd carry, I like the old steel, seasoned steel ;) if carry an old Union Knifeworks Moose pattern circa1912-13 this 100+ year old knife takes and keeps the keenest edge of any knife I own.

Why change what works?
 
Just wanted to add that there's probably a dozen differently worded but similarly themed threads in the past few years, try a BFC Google search and you'll see that typically the questions eventually wind up being 50/50.
 
Cheers Erdelyi yeah I thought it will probably be a 50/50. I was mainly interested in people's choices of the two. :)

Velitrius, sweet ride. Is that yours?
 
Not mine Kaizo..... yet. I'm only 6 numbers plus the gold ball away from getting one.

50/50 is what I was betting on too.

I myself use a walking stick to get through brush, so I would likely choose the slicer. Can whittle wedges for splitting too.
 
Chopper. Although I would cheat with something like a BK 2, which can do both.

I think probably most knives in the 4" to 5" blade length can be used for wood processing and finer activities like fish processing, if you know what you're doing. I don't, so this is just my opinion.

And I know enough to pilot a chopper, so there's that....
 
Story of my life velitrius, story of my life. When I win the game of fortune I'm getting myself a full studio for sheathmaking. Good luck with the numbers ;)

Shorttime pretty much the same deal as me I see. Bk2 is a great option for a robust knife. I need to get around to buying one soon.
 
Shorttime said:
Chopper. Although I would cheat with something like a BK 2, which can do both.

I think probably most knives in the 4" to 5" blade length can be used for wood processing and finer activities like fish processing, if you know what you're doing. I don't, so this is just my opinion.

And I know enough to pilot a chopper, so there's that....
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I'd probably cheat too, with a Swamp Rat Rodent 6 as my 'chopper', but which I would have total confidence in at a range of tasks. For a slicer I would probably have a Mora of some kind, and would not overly mind if it were to be misplaced.
 
BK9 and BK16....if I HAD to loose one, it would be the 16.....never seen anything yet I couldn't do with the 9, may not always be pretty in the end, but I can get it done.
 
Slicer all the way... and that would be any of my knives. I have some choppers but they are not carried everyday. So if someday, someone throws me out somewhere in the wild, I will have at least one capable knife for cutting stuff.
 
Would take my Busse SFNO, and my Sean O'Hare River Knife for the slicer.

If only one I'd go with the SFNO. I could do about anything needed with it.
 
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