These "I trust this knife with my life" threads always strike me as funny. On the one hand, I don't trust ANY piece of metal with my life. On the other, I trust all my knives to serve faithfully as... knives. Few of these things will outcut a $3 Victorinox paring knife, or out-pry a $8 prybar. Yet, it's acceptable to spend hundreds for a knife that falls between those parameters.
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I trust these knives !!!
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But would you trust your life or your families life with those?
Selling yourself short Jim.
Mora's make great kitchen knives and thats about it.
Skam
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pit-- as long as i wasn't hanging from a cliff by my mora, i think that i would be just fine....
my son uses the mora a lot....
the best survival knife is the one you have with you, whatever one that may be...
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I love and trust my Scrap Yard SS4!
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Mora's are not kitchen knives.
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Yep. completely acceptable.
Its also acceptable to spend $45K on a new Suburban when a 20 year old Suburban will get you there for about $1K.
A Flat panel 64" LCD when the same program is aired on a 19" tube TV is fine too.
Its also acceptable to fly first class at 3 to 10 X the cost of coach when the back half of the plane arrives at the same time as the front.
A simple $90 gold band can signify a loyal and lasting marriage yet they sell diamond rings worth hundreds of thousands.
After breaking a couple in the field thats all they are in my house.
They do excel in that role. To think of them as hard use bush blades is foolish.
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Hell Razor,Dumpster mutt Le, Rat Cutlery,Becker,Ontario RAT,NWA,Bark river all knives I own...& would trust 100%
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The handle is lower than the blade, making it difficult to cut a potato for example. They do not excel in that role at all. Look at a standard kitchen knife. It´s a totally different design.
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In the kitchen, a mora would fill the role of paring knife, or steak knife. One of the larger ones may work as a carving knife.
I only have one knife that I would not trust to serve faithfully as a knife, and it sits in a drawer and does mail duty. Busse, buck, victorinox, knifes of alaska, kershaw, spyderco, and benchmade- they all do what a knife is supposed to do, and that is all that I ask.
Use a busse if you like busses. Use a mora if you like moras.
Am I the only one that smells smoke?
I only have one knife that I would not trust to serve faithfully as a knife, and it sits in a drawer and does mail duty. Busse, buck, victorinox, knifes of alaska, kershaw, spyderco, and benchmade- they all do what a knife is supposed to do, and that is all that I ask.
Use a busse if you like busses. Use a mora if you like moras.
Am I the only one that smells smoke?
They are great for boning meat and general slicing. They are not for chopping for reasons you mention. there is more than one type of kitchen knife. Go look at the different types of kitchen knives and not just one.
Skam
I use more tha Busse products and none of them are as fagile as Mora's. To stick to the point of the thread. I dont think anyone should trust a life to a mora. Sorry but it has nothing to do with "what I like" but rather what I trust.
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I agree but if we stand by the saying " Be Prepared " then we should Never find ourselves with a second rate knife !
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Bingo. We used to have a similar discussion all the time on some gun forums. Who's the winner, the AK or the AR? The same principles were functioning, and the answer is still similar. Then, it was that a quality AK would serve you well for many year. A quality AR will serve you well for many years. Both will work well in a defensive scenario. Make your choice and then train with it until it feels like an extension of your hand.
Same with the blades. Find one that works for you and has some good steel. Type doesn't matter, if it works for you. Know how you know if it works for you? Use it! A lot! Take all the time and money you would spend going through different knives and knife discussion, and just get out there and use the crap out of your blade. Use it for everything, and anything you could imagine needing it for. If your chosen blade works for you, then there can be no argument against it. Why? It worked. For you. In real life.
Exactly, And after having Mora failures I will not use them in the field for any reason. They do not work for me under reasonable use let alone emergency abuse.
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And I will never use a mora in my kitchen. A short kitchen knife with a finger guard? No thanks, not for me.
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I understand you and actually agree on a lot of points. You are not talking about woodscraft but actual survival under emergency conditions, and you choose your knife in those parameters. You do not worry about fine precision work, carving tools, trap triggers, food prep and many other fine tasks that a woodscrafter does, yes, I understand in a pinch you may be able to use your big knife for those tasks, although not with the same precision. You look at a knife as a means to make a fire NOW, hack brush for a emergency shelter or a litter or for splints and your knives excel at that role.
IMO a lot of people on this forum, myself included, don't look to their knives to those tasks but use their knives for more precision woodscraft roles where the smaller knives and the moras excel. Some people, you, are confusing a survival/emergency/SAR tool with a woodscrafters tool, a knife like you use would be almost useless for the things I do most with my knives just like my knives would be next to useless for the things you do.
Different tools for different jobs and semantics are what causes most of the strife in these big vs little knife threads. Chris
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I trust this knife!
What the heck are you doing with your knives that is causing you to break Moras?!
I admit they are not the prettiest, nor the toughest, but so far I have done everything I am likely to do with a knife with this Mora, and I would absolutely trust it in a survival situation. Of course, I don't count on a knife to act as a pry bar, or screw driver. I have used it to baton, strike a ferro rod, whittle a figure four trap, cut down a 4in. dia. tree, and clean an uncountable number of Rainbow Trout. So, I can rely on it to start a fire, build a shelter, and eat, other than using it to hold water, I don't know what else I would need it to do to help me get through 3 or 4 days of being lost. Oh, and it also went on a nine hour ocean fishing trip with me and it didn't turn into a pile of rust dust, in fact it didn't even surface rust on me, the patina got darker though.
What are you guys thinking you're going to do with your knives in a survival situation that can't be done with a 4in. knife? Are you hoping your knife will be able to pry that 2ton bolder off your leg, or are you planning to cut down a 10ft. dia. redwood tree and build yourself a cabin while you wait for help?
If YOU like big knives, and feel more comfortable with one on your hip, then that is FINE by ME, but don't go telling people that they are going to die in the wilderness if they don't spend a weeks worth of pay on a 10" long 1/4" thick knife. People have SURVIVED in the real wilderness, in real life with much, much less. Survival has more to do with your state of mind, your desire to live, and what you know, than it does with having a particular knife, or even having a knife at all.
How on earth did we humans survive as a species with fragile, 2" long obsidian knives? ::rant off::
What the heck are you doing with your knives that is causing you to break Moras?!
I admit they are not the prettiest, nor the toughest, but so far I have done everything I am likely to do with a knife with this Mora, and I would absolutely trust it in a survival situation. Of course, I don't count on a knife to act as a pry bar, or screw driver. I have used it to baton, strike a ferro rod, whittle a figure four trap, cut down a 4in. dia. tree, and clean an uncountable number of Rainbow Trout. So, I can rely on it to start a fire, build a shelter, and eat, other than using it to hold water, I don't know what else I would need it to do to help me get through 3 or 4 days of being lost. Oh, and it also went on a nine hour ocean fishing trip with me and it didn't turn into a pile of rust dust, in fact it didn't even surface rust on me, the patina got darker though.
What are you guys thinking you're going to do with your knives in a survival situation that can't be done with a 4in. knife? Are you hoping your knife will be able to pry that 2ton bolder off your leg, or are you planning to cut down a 10ft. dia. redwood tree and build yourself a cabin while you wait for help?
If YOU like big knives, and feel more comfortable with one on your hip, then that is FINE by ME, but don't go telling people that they are going to die in the wilderness if they don't spend a weeks worth of pay on a 10" long 1/4" thick knife. People have SURVIVED in the real wilderness, in real life with much, much less. Survival has more to do with your state of mind, your desire to live, and what you know, than it does with having a particular knife, or even having a knife at all.
How on earth did we humans survive as a species with fragile, 2" long obsidian knives? ::rant off::