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woodsman102

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I recently switched to a daypack with Molle, and am looking for a knife to complement it.

It would be for an all-around wilderness/bushcraft knife, i'm thinking 4-5 inches, full tang. (fixed blade.) It doesn't need to be too fancy, but a good steel: something along the lines of 12c27, 440c, even 1095 would be fine, if it was coated. (It gets pretty wet here in OR). As it would be used for hiking, and possibly some heavy backpacking, I don't really want a prybar: half a pound, or possibly a little bit more.

While all of those above aren't set in stone, it needs to have a quality, molle-compatible kydex or nylon sheath.

I'm looking to spend about 100$, although any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Does anyone have any knives that they use for this purpose? Anything that someone has seen that seems to fit those?

P.S. I can't stand serrations on a bushcraft knife, so keep that in mind.
 
I can second the RAT suggestion.

If you'd like to go custom, contact Fiddleback (Andy Roy). He makes some (Woodsman, Hunter, Bushcraft) amazing knives that would do the job for you -- and his handles are simply superb.:thumbup:

Yes, I'm the happy owner of quite a few RATs and not enough Fiddlebacks.:D
 
I've handles the RC-4, its a great knife: I have pretty big hands, and the handle is just a bit too small. Not enough to be a major problem if I owned it, but enough to drive me to look for something else.
 
The knives I've been looking at in that category and researched heavily are...

Fallkniven H1 - about $105 for the vg-10 version

Fallkniven F1- about $100 for the vg-10 version, although the handle might be about the same as the rc-4 in size. (The H1 handle is bigger though I think)

RC-4 of course

BRKT Bravo-1 around $140 if you shop around, although you might have to wait another month or two for the next shipment to come out.

BRKT Aurora

Scrapyard S5 cg - coated SR101 (great edge retention) about $125-135 on the exchange forum here 5.5 in blade (have this one, like it a lot)

Also take a look at the custom makers on the forums.
 
Thanks alot, the Bravo 1 looks bulletproof. (I'm obviously new here, i searched the forums for bravo 1 and came up with ALOT of results.)
 
Picked up a scrapper 5 not long ago and it quickly replace every other knife I have in the size range.
 
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