Knife Survival Quiz

Almost got a 100. I got one wrong: No gut hook, no way! I figured it had to be a trick question, so I choose the invisible "D: Gimme some gut hook". Wrong!

Just kidding. I got the one wrong about thumb placement during cutting. I said on top of the spine. Correct answer evidently is: side of the handle.

It was kind of dumb. I kept expecting questions like:
- If you were attacked by a bear, what knife would you choose?
a. BRKT mini-Canadian
b. SOG Seal Puppy
c. Buck 110
d. semi-dull Bayonet mounted on .308 Garand

- To impress Blade Forum members, which is the most impressively correct sentence:
a. friendly, quick service. I've never had a problem with that company
b. I like their service, but their selection is limited
c. Ya! Jim is great to deal with and Nancy is cool too! I said "Hey Jim! It's me!" and he said "Oh dude! Free knife for you, my mon! Glad you called! [Nancy, who the hell was that guy???]"
d. Great price. Great service. Great knives.

Overall: dumb test but worth killing a few minutes for.
 
Got 14 right. Tree cutting with the tip got me incorrect responses. I think the tree cutting ones are more of an opinnion than fact.

I also got a wrong response from how to get the most downward cutting force. The correct answer was to put your thumb on the top of the spine. I disagree, while it may give better leverage, I wrap my entire hand around the handle like a fist for a firm grip to deliver downward force.
 
Got a 15 here...guessed wrong on a couple of those "tree felling" questions...good quiz though!
 
Your score is: 17 out of 20

Not too shabby ;) not too great either....the scandi thing threw me off :p
 
I got a 16....yeah, the stuff about cutting down sapplings and driving the blade in tip first got me....
 
That's bull about handle shapes. What, like you don't know your own knife well enough to know which end is up? Give me a break. It's about personal comfort ref. handle shape.
 
17 / 20 .....I am with the majority here about chopping down trees. I just can't imagine taking my one belt knife and tempting fate to break off the tip in order to make a shelter. I'm assuming that if one were making a shelter, then he is too far to make it back home or to camp, etc., and has no tent or other means to keep dry and warm. So, I would have to investigate that idea a little further before I would take my knife and pound it into a tree!

Interesting little quiz all and all!
 
This guy might know a few things about knives, but he is not all that smart when it comes to "survival". His thinking that cutting toward the chest with a knife is ok if you can control the knife is just plain stupid. When i was a kid everybody always said "Never carve toward yourself!" Then, a friend of mines dad pulled the smooth move of using a pen knife to carve out a bolt hole in a door by cutting towards his chest... OOOPS!!! Stuck the knife right into his chest over his heart. His last words as he was being loaded into the ambulance was "I always told my son to never carve toward himself..." Lucky for him he was using the little 1 inch blade on the knife and "only" just pierced his heart. Needless to say, we little kids learned our lesson well from his experience. He did live.

Hey, what's a quicker way to die? Sticking yourself in the chest with a knife or slicing through your thigh?

As for cutting down 6 inch trees with your little 4 inch blade knife... i got to ask; "What the hell for?" To me that sounds like a tremendous waste of energy when you are "trying to survive". It might be a better idea to think a little harder and come up with a better way to do whatever it is you NEED to do. Again, what do you need a 6" thick tree for? Are you planning to stay for a while or do you just need to get out of the rain till morning and then hump it toward home? If you are trying to get firewood, why beat on your poor little knife and potentially damage it trying to make kindling when you could probably much easier gather a bunch of little sticks and leaves and grass or whatever and start a fire. Usually there will be a big enough rock (about 10-40 pounds) that you can pick up and smash against a good size branch you've leaned against a tree or another big rock and break it into various size pieces with one blow. (Hint: Pick up the rock and throw it down like King Kong... remember to let go of the rock and get out of the way!") Save your energy for staying warm, starting a fire, finding food/water, and getting the hell out. If you planning to stay for a while because you basically have no choice, it is better to build a light shelter that is strong and keep adding insulation as time goes on and stick to the basics of finding food, water, and warmth. Trashing your knife or yourself is not going to help.
Rant off.
 
I got a 20/20 but I didnt agree with his statements so much as I figured what he was going to say was the correct answer and guessed that. Some things I knew I didnt agree with but knew what "there" right answer was. So I got a perfect score.
 
15/20; Missed the two that a majority did, plus I learned that high hardness is better for firestarting.
 
I'd argue that a hollow grind is easier to sharpen in the field (as opposed to a scandi grind) because you have less metal to grind away due to the generally thinner cross section at the edge, and narrower bevels.
 
gbuskirk said:
15/20; Missed the two that a majority did, plus I learned that high hardness is better for firestarting.
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I knew the answer they were looking for, but nothing throws sparks like the spine of my Fallknivens (S1/A1)and they are stainless.
 
18/20
Got the batoning one wrong(i still wont drive the tip of my knife into a tree to fell it).
Got the easiest to sharpen one wrong(always thought a flat grind was easier).
Rory
 
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