i lost my knife

Tell the 'not so funny as one may think' to my uncontrollable laughter. Sure he may have meant what you said, but I still enjoyed laughing. (My cat's pretty mean - but luckily I'm always carrying in case she takes it too far)
 
TsarBomba said:
I think OP lives in an area where "cats" aren't quite so cuddly and cutesy and a little more toothy and claw-y.
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jc57 said:
Based on his name, he is from India or thereabouts. If he is kayaking in mangroves, in the Indian mangrove forests there are tigers, leopards, jungle cats, fishing cats, and leopard cats.
So maybe not so funny as one might think.
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I guess my clue was too subtle for the great minds of Gennie Dee. :D
 
jc57 said:
Based on his name, he is from India or thereabouts. If he is kayaking in mangroves, in the Indian mangrove forests there are tigers, leopards, jungle cats, fishing cats, and leopard cats.

So maybe not so funny as one might think.
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What will be funny is if he thinks a knife will help him against a tiger or whatever jungle cat.
 
TsarBomba said:
I think OP lives in an area where "cats" aren't quite so cuddly and cutesy and a little more toothy and claw-y.
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Nfd538 said:
What will be funny is if he thinks a knife will help him against a tiger or whatever jungle cat.
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I just wonder if he's speaking from prior experience...

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Nfd538 said:
What will be funny is if he thinks a knife will help him against a tiger or whatever jungle cat.
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Perhaps firearm ownership in his country is illegal and he feels that a knife is better than just his bare hands.

Although a knife is not an ideal weapon for fighting a large predatory cat, if faced with that situation, and given the choice between my bare hands, or a knife, I'd choose a knife. Just as these two guys did-

A 61 year old man was attacked by a cougar and used a pocket knife to save himself, by killing the mountain lion-
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Attacking-cougar-killed-with-pocket-knife-1092755.php

A father used a pocket knife to save his son, who was being attacked by a mountain lion.
http://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/newshound/2012/02/father-stabs-mountain-lion-pocket-knife-save-son

Both incidents received a lot of media coverage, as well as a lot of discussion here at Bladeforums.

I've seen several cases of people successfully fighting off pitbulls with knives. I've also seen cases of people successfully fighting off attacking bears with knives, including a 68 year old man (Gene Moe) who killed an attacking grizzly bear with a Buck 110. That was another story that received a lot of attention.

The will to survive can be a powerful thing. And the will to survive, combined with a knife, has often proven to be a highly effective combination for overcoming adversity.

And in my opinion, making jokes at the expense of the OP isn't a very nice way of welcoming a new member. This isn't Whine & Cheese.
 
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Ceramic blade? Didn't Mission knives make non magnetic ones? Not sure if that translates to rust proof...I really don't know.


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My guess is he's talking cat tails as in the plant. It ain't rocket science.
 
I can only speak to what I own, a Browning Crowell/Barker Competition Knife and Ontario RTAK-II.

They make cutting branches easy work. They should take care of big cats too, provided you do your part (good luck).

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If serious though I would think you would want somthing stabby .

I imagine you won't have time or room to swing to well (imagine how fast a house cat is then grow it by a hundred ).

I live in alaska bears are seldom seen but are around (mostly blacks, grizzly are a little up the road :) ).

I use a hill people gear chest rig to hold my 44.
But under the left hand side strap I have an esee 4 (it never leaves the set up)
With the sharpend top clip .

Basically in my FANTASY land I imagine getting mauled you won't be able to.move like you want to . My best plan is to get on my back gaurd with legs up trying to kick while I pull my pistol and try to shoot him in the neck.

Bears have slow heart rates so trying to shoot one to bleed out is not a good plan .
Best is to attack their sensitive nose . But I do keep that blade there
In case I gota shank a be yach ;).
Remember most of its is fantasy .
But I do believe like others said about the will to survive .
Then again after watching the revinant :)
 
With the broad price range, plus requirements of fairly broad availability, large killing power, stainless, never break, great chopper, I would recommend this:

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Cold Steel San Mai III Gurkha Kukri. It can stab, sort of.

Not sure how it would carry in a boat, but concealment is not up there in the requirements I suppose.

Gaston
 
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Yes they will big cats, human eater, leopard, or bengali tiger, my three of my relatives died working all combined 1 tiger did kill them all three mature men, i am in us so i will purchase the super knife to bring to home meaned for killing
 
Sounds like you'r in the jungle. Jaguars? Fixed blade in stainless, Aus8 or VG10 are easy to sharpen.
$100-500 will get you most any knife you like. H1 is the best non-rusting steel out there but it doesn't
hold an edge all that well. Any stainless will be adequate.
 
Jpm - can you get/carry a gun? (I definitely wasn't poking fun at you earlier - I just have a weird sense of humor)
 
Online said 1095 best steel but rust, rust nothing for me no conerns is 1095 the best steel if rust is no thought conerned?
 
Totally agree with killgar on this. We Americans sometimes forget that other parts of the world have super restrictive gun laws to the point that a firearm is just not available like here in the U.S.. And like pointed out, a knife can make a difference between living and being lunch. in the end, ya gotta do what ya gotta do to survive.

I'm not sure the style of knife even matters so much as it being there on you, and being sharp enough to ge the job done. I recall that in one of Ken Warner's Knives Book, there was an article on a well known game ranger in either South Africa or Kenya, that was attacked by a large male lion. The biggest of the big cats. He ended up using a smallish butcher knife with about a 5 or 6 inch blade that was in a zebra hide sheath he always wore on his hip. He stabbed the lion in the neck repeatedly and killed it while it was mauling him. I think he got the juggler vein. He lived but was badly injured and took a long time to recover. But he did live, thanks to that little butcher knife he carried as a utility knife.

I'd think any good quality stainless steel blade will do as long as it's a pointy design that will penetrate hide and muscle well.
 
What ever you decide on should have a lanyard and be corrosion resistant.

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Get the cold steel Bowie machete. Cheap and can do lots of things and would be good for defense too. 12" blade and very pointy tip.
 
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Online said 1095 best steel but rust, rust nothing for me no conerns is 1095 the best steel if rust is no thought conerned?
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1095 is a fine steel, for sure. It's not so much that it rusts, it's that it rusts so damn quickly. You really have to keep after it in a humid environment. Once or twice I've put down a knife made of 1095 or similar material and come back only to find I'd left a small patch of moisture on the blade and it had developed active oxidation seemingly instantaneously.

440C could be a good solution for you. It'll hold an edge but it won't rust at the sight of water molecules, which over its lifetime could serve you (and the blade integrity) well.

Just a thought. I can't say there's any one "best steel", it all comes down to the heat treatment, construction and use of the blade.
 
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