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Wabajack

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Hey all,

Say you were kidnapped and dropped in the middle of Wabakimi Provincial Park, an uninterrupted boreal forest the size of Prince Edward Island, RIGHT NOW! (Autumn) and given the chance to take any one knife (No axes, and only one) which one would you want to have with you? Keep in mind this would be the only tool on you, no lighters or Firesteels no cooking or camping implements just the knife with a bare sheath and some weather appropriate clothing.

There's next to no chance of you coming across anybody so you would have to walk-out. You could very well be upwards of 60 km from the nearest road without a trail in sight. :p

Well, I'm going to go ahead and pick the Fallkniven A1. I would feel very comfortable with this strapped to my side, big enough to make my shelters and small enough not to get in the way and to do the fine work that I would need. Being 1/4" thick and made of laminated steel there’s very little I would have to worry about when using it. Now it’s your turn. :D

~ Wabajack
 
My fallkniven A2, because i know it will absolutely not fail on me. Its a great battoner and can chop shelter material up quickly.
 
Since I would only have a knife and clothes, I can reasonably expect to want to build a small kit out of trash I find along the way: cans, plastic bottles, wire coat hangers, etc.. I'd feel happiest with my LM Surge.
 
All i can think about is wood for shelter.. That would be something close to an Axe so even if i dont have one i would have to say a Kuhkori From the short time of handling one it would be more then enough to chop the wood. If i use it as a Draw knife i hope i could make the rest of the tools for the fire bow.

Sasha
 
well... this is interesting.. i'll play along :D

out of the knives i actually own, probably my HI WWII Khukri or Kershaw Outcast D2.

one of the two is probably what i'd take. if i had to choose between the two, at the moment i'd take my Outcast.

Cheers
 
Hmm right now , about 60 km from the possibility of help. That is about a 3 day walk in the bush. So figure three nights , if it is raining or snowing then your chances are much reduced also if you are in muskeg country that is likely to get you wet and sap your core heat . The enemy is always the cold and being wet and cold is the worst.

The cold will kill you so you will need fire . You must be able to get a fire going otherwise your chances of survival are low - if you know the bowdrill and are skilled with it to get a fire going then you probably will make it . Food is not a major concern for 3 days but you have to balance effort at traveling with calories burned at night for sleeping/keeping warm.

What knife ? Heck almost anything with a 3 - 6 " carbon blade would do very well. I'd pick a Mora.

Why carbon ? I'd be picking up the odd rock to try sparking it off the back of the blade for fire making.

Shelter is made by just using standing dead wood that you pile up and against each other . No tools required.
 
(Assuming that you don't know where you are so you need to establish a camp first)

Autumn time and you want to live in virgin forest with only a 6" blade? I don't think you're going to baton more than 10 trees before it gets old. With winter snows coming and the need to gather enough wood for shelter and fire, you're going to need to chop hundreds of trees. Gathering/trapping enough food to last would be the next big problem.

I'll take a real golok or large parang, one that natives use daily on woods (rather than a thinner machete designed for softer material). I prefer straight blades because they do work as a draw knife.
 
CWL said:
(Assuming that you don't know where you are so you need to establish a camp first)

Autumn time and you want to live in virgin forest with only a 6" blade? I don't think you're going to baton more than 10 trees before it gets old. With winter snows coming and the need to gather enough wood for shelter and fire, you're going to need to chop hundreds of trees. Gathering/trapping enough food to last would be the next big problem.
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With an approximate three day, or even week walk out, I am not stopping to build a big log cabin out of hundreds of trees, or even ten. Neither would I be sweating gathering or trapping. Water, yeah. Watercourses lead downhill usually to civilization or at least a coast. A 5 1/2" carbon steel fixed blade for me if given the choice. I've lasted two weeks and covered a greater distance with much less, though the environment was more tropical.

Codger
 
My brand new 5 inch Model IX from Eddie White except it would have an O-1 blade instead of 440C. It could do anything required of it.
 
tough question especially if you own alot of knives. but being we are kidnapped they would be awfull dumb kidnappers if they left me with a sheath knife i'ed be unkidnapped real quick. so that leaves a pocket knife they might overlook. I would go with my old USA made Schrade 970T buzzsaw trapper wicked sharp 3 1/8"Knife Blade & 3 1/2" saw
 
EnglishBob said:
My fallkniven A2, because i know it will absolutely not fail on me. Its a great battoner and can chop shelter material up quickly.
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I would take a Fallkniven A2, because when it breaks in half, I can use both pieces of the blade for other survival needs.




















Just kidding! I love my Fallkniven A1
 
Probably my Benchmade CSK in D2 or one of my HI Khukuri's. Do you get to have stone or ceramic rod to touch up the blade?

TWBryan
 
To be perfectly honest, if I was only allowed to take the proper clothes for the season and one other object, that object would not be a knife. I'd rather have a compass so I wouldn't have to bother with checking directions with more primitive and less accurate methods. With just a 100 or so kilometers of distance to be covered, there wouldn't be any worry about making shelters and building fires. With the proper clothes for the season, weather wouldn't pose a problem. With a compass, I'd walk myself out of there in three days, if I stopped to admire the sights every once in a while. For such a short period of time, food would be a non-issue. If I took a big chopping knife with me, it would avail nothing but slow me down a little. If I couldn't have the compass and had to take a knife, it would be something not too large, like a Tommipuukko or a Fällkniven F1.
 
Without question - swamp rat Ratweiler. A knife that will never fail me, is small enough to use for "normal" tasks, and chops surprisingly well (after I reprofiled it). First time I've ever come across a 7.5" blade that chops like a 9-10" blade. Excellent knife.
 
Bwilson said:
Without question - swamp rat Ratweiler. A knife that will never fail me, is small enough to use for "normal" tasks, and chops surprisingly well (after I reprofiled it). First time I've ever come across a 7.5" blade that chops like a 9-10" blade. Excellent knife.
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This for me too. IF it had to be a knife I OWN I would take my Howling Rat LM. Of course I'd pick my Gerber hatchet over both.
 
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