Recommendation? new "tactical knife"

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Hi. I need your help. I'm stuck.
I'm looking for a new knife to bring with me almost everytime: fixed, close to 25 cm of overall lenght, drop-point, serrated, not too heavy and with a good sheath (to put it on belt, backpack or whatever i could find and have with me). I'm not going to batoning, I only need a tought knife for general use.
The budget is max 200 euro (I live in italy).
I have look a lot of knives:
Gerber strongarm and prodigy, but i don't like the steel and it's heavy.
Ka-bar: too big and i don't like leather sheath out of my showcase
Gerber yari II, to expensive. I can't find it with the money I have now.
Fox predator, unconvincing for it's too strange stile.
SOG seal pup, strike or OPS: but again, steel and sheath doesn't convince me.

The search stop to Benchmade protagonist and it looks perfect to me.
It's a good blade? someone has an advice or a better option for me?

thank you
 
b98 said:
Hi. I need your help. I'm stuck.
I'm looking for a new knife to bring with me almost everytime: fixed, close to 25 cm of overall lenght, drop-point, serrated, not too heavy and with a good sheath (to put it on belt, backpack or whatever i could find and have with me). I'm not going to batoning, I only need a tought knife for general use.
The budget is max 200 euro (I live in italy).
I have look a lot of knives:
Gerber strongarm and prodigy, but i don't like the steel and it's heavy.
Ka-bar: too big and i don't like leather sheath out of my showcase
Gerber yari II, to expensive. I can't find it with the money I have now.
Fox predator, unconvincing for it's too strange stile.
SOG seal pup, strike or OPS: but again, steel and sheath doesn't convince me.

The search stop to Benchmade protagonist and it looks perfect to me.
It's a good blade? someone has an advice or a better option for me?

thank you
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I'd ditch the protagonist, not a camping / backpack blade at all.

If you can live with no serrations, try to get in your hand a Becker. BK16 if possible. Sheath is perfect, and I have a variety of fixed blades, it's the best.
 
The Benchmade Protagonist is actually a fine piece for the described use....

Drop point, serrated, not too heavy, good sheath... Check, check, check and check.

A tough knife for general use... check. Benchmade does 154CM like nobody's business.

Actually going to pick one up for my son for just such use. Sans the serrations, though.
 
Mora Kansbol. It is the knife you would take along as a light-weight backup, and end up using all the time. So why not just make it your main knife.
 
Schrade SCHF42
There is a thread started by the designer of some of the Schrade fixed blades.
Might be worth reading. I found it interesting.
 
Henry Beige said:
Mora Kansbol. It is the knife you would take along as a light-weight backup, and end up using all the time. So why not just make it your main knife.
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I didn't know the Kansbol came in serrated... I think it's the serrated portion of your requirements that makes this difficult. And I have to ask, honestly, why? They only make sharpening extremely difficult, especially field sharpening! And they serve little to no purpose that a straight edge cannot perform. If you need a saw blade serrated is not the way to go, get a saw blade.

However if you truly do feel the need a question I must ask is what steels do you find acceptable, because I'm seeing a lot of "don't like the steel" going on here. Maybe that will help us to narrow things down a bit.
 
Drop the serrations, and buy Italian. The Lionsteel M5 G10 version is just below 25cm, drop point, Sleipner steel, and has cordura sheath.
 
Spyderco Aqua Salt HI full serrated....

great knife, not too big, not too small, awesome sheath from the factory, H1 steel will not rust or need any care of any kind while attached to the pack and out doing " stuff "

its exactly what I would buy looking for a knife with those preset parameters .....
 
microbe said:
Drop the serrations, and buy Italian. The Lionsteel M5 G10 version is just below 25cm, drop point, Sleipner steel, and has cordura sheath.
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I agree, to the extent that the OP might get more value if buying within borders. Maniango has produced some of the finest blades available for many years. However, I’m not sure where to look other than Fox knives, which I know have something designed along those lines, because they have so many different models.
 
b98 said:
Hi. I need your help. I'm stuck.
I'm looking for a new knife to bring with me almost everytime: fixed, close to 25 cm of overall lenght, drop-point, serrated, not too heavy and with a good sheath (to put it on belt, backpack or whatever i could find and have with me). I'm not going to batoning, I only need a tought knife for general use.
The budget is max 200 euro (I live in italy).
I have look a lot of knives:
Gerber strongarm and prodigy, but i don't like the steel and it's heavy.
Ka-bar: too big and i don't like leather sheath out of my showcase
Gerber yari II, to expensive. I can't find it with the money I have now.
Fox predator, unconvincing for it's too strange stile.
SOG seal pup, strike or OPS: but again, steel and sheath doesn't convince me.

The search stop to Benchmade protagonist and it looks perfect to me.
It's a good blade? someone has an advice or a better option for me?

thank you
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25cm overall length or 25cm blade?
 
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