Outdoor survival blade under $60?

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youknowwhatimsayin

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Here's what I need

Full tang.
Stainless steel.
Blade between 5 to 7 inches.
Straight edge ( no curve in the blade.)
Something good for batoning, chopping wood. Stabbing a bear if it attacks lol.
AND IT HAS TO BE UNDER $60!!
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Chris.
 
Why stainless? High carbon steel is tougher and they are not so expensive but any moras are amazing.
 
Becker (now made by KA-BAR) BK-7 would be a good choice - it's carbon steel, but it's coated.
I think I paid around $60 for mine new. Surely you could find a used one for less than that.
It's worth a look, IMHO.
 
Nope....don't know what you're sayin. I've figured out that by survival knife you mean outdoor recreation/field knife....got that.

But what do you mean by no curve in the blade? No belly? Like a wharncliffe or sheepsfoot? That would make zero sense for a outdoors knife that you would need to skin with.
 
link2derek said:
Becker (now made by KA-BAR) BK-7 would be a good choice - it's carbon steel, but it's coated.
I think I paid around $60 for mine new. Surely you could find a used one for less than that.
It's worth a look, IMHO.
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Coating protects everything except the important part - the edge. But at least it increases resistance to cutting.
 
Buck Reaper:
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Buck Sentry:
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May not be the edge you're looking for.
 
marcinek said:
Nope....don't know what you're sayin. I've figured out that by survival knife you mean outdoor recreation/field knife....got that.

But what do you mean by no curve in the blade? No belly? Like a wharncliffe or sheepsfoot? That would make zero sense for a outdoors knife that you would need to skin with.
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I mean perfectly straight edge.
 
SOG Northwest Ranger FTW. No knife from 5"-7" is a respectable chopper though but it'll stab a bear as good as any mosquito. ;)
 
Straight edge, huh? By that description, the Buck Sentry is out. That rules out drop, clip and spear point blades. I take that to mean that you want a stainless steel tanto, which by most definitions is not what most people think of in an outdoor survival blade. Oh well, I guess the SOG Tsunami might work. That's about as straight a blade as I know of, made of 6.5" of AUS-8A stainless.

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The Cold Steel Pendleton Lite Hunter is propably under 20 US-$ and you have a straight edge there.

My recommendation would be the Glock Feldmesser 78 though, but that´s just me. The Glock Feldmesser almost follows for some years, not just outdoors. Not really stainless, though, but easy to sharpen and well to maintain.
 
Well, based on your requirements, just about any SOG or Cold Steel fixed blade in your price range will be stainless steel. I think the Buck Nighthawk and Gerber Prodigy (both USA-made) are still stainless, or at least they were when I bought mine a few years ago.
 
Sog seal pup elite. Not much of a chopper but should do most things expected of a camp knife/outdoors knife.
 
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