Knife Quiz

[bacman99]

I took knife quiz on field and stream's web site and got 14 correct out of 20 questions. I thought you guys might like to try it.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/fieldstream/quizes/knife/knife.html

 

[beckerhead]

I made a 19, and take issue with my answer to that question being counted wrong. I don't make a habit of thumbing the back of the spine, but I like it for some applications. And since the reverse chest style grip used by Mears wasn't an option, I went with what works well for me. Oh well.

 

[lotoblades]

Almost,I got 18 correct.

 

[peripatew]

Eesh, I got a 14 too. Need to take my Bk7 out more.

 

[grease-man]

16 correct. I need to learn to pay more attention when reading the questions! I'm with beckerhead on the thumbing the spine issue. -Matt-

 

[12Bravo]

19 out of 20

 

[Lukas]

19, fun stuff but some questions were badly done

 

[DaveH]

16 out of 20, I disagreed with their can't cut a frozen tree and whacking a knife on the butt end.

 

[AustinTXShooter]

18 of 20. I missed the one about felling the large tree and the chemistry question.

 

[udtjim]

16 out of 20. I disagree with several of their opinions.

 

[spyder10]

16, I don't agree with the stab the tip into the tree and move back and forth to cut it down

 

[AustinTXShooter]

16, I don't agree with the stab the tip into the tree and move back and forth to cut it down

I don't either, which is one of the reasons I missed that question. I picked the batoning answer. When it showed the response percentages, it looked like over 75 percent of the people missed it with most of them choosing the same way I did.

 

[superduty truck]

17 out of 20 fun to answer.

 

[Shotgun]

I got a 17 by answering all the questions right.

 

[dttomcat]

16 with one raised eye brow.
Specifically the thumb on the spine deal and the knife tip into the tree trunk. Sounds to me like a good way to break your blade tip when you really need it. Thanks for the quiz though. That was cool. -DT

 

[bikermikearchery]

I got a 17 by answering all the questions right.

I'm with you on that. Anything that I answered incorrectly "in there opinion" I knew they were going to have a different answer from my opinion.

 

[james_bond]

16 out of 20. I disagree with several of their opinions.

I got the same here

 

[EmsRescueGuy]

17 out of 20 and pretty fun but I really take issue with their felling technique, none of them sounded very reasonable. and the thumb on the blade one I question too.

I also have issue with the guthook one, I know plenty of folks who use them with great sucess. and I know people here have posted using guthooks to delimb branches.

The last one that bothers me was the insistance that stainless won't probduce a good spark, I have sparked many fires with the back of a spyderco, Mabey others are better but this works very well for me.

 

[Preacher Man]

15 out of 20. That was fun. I don't agree with some of the answers, though.

 

[Cpl Punishment]

Interesting quiz.

17 of 20

Looks like I got the same ones "wrong" as most of you.

No way in Hell am I pounding the point of my knife into a tree and jerking it back and forth.

IMO, having the thumb ont he spine of the blade when peeling bark and such gives much more control, which seems to be more important (at least for me) than brute power.

I think the hollow grind or especially the flat grind are easier to sharpen in the field. True, you have no guide but visual for maintaining a consistant angle, but you have to remove much less material than on a Scandi.


Is it just me, or did it seem to be heading towards the Buck Vanguard being the penultimate woods knife (despite it being stainless) -- not that there's anything wrong with the Vanguard, especially the S30V version Cabela's sells -- or is the Vanguard just that good of a design?