Outstanding in the Field

scdub said:
Do you like field knives?

What is a field knife?

Surprisingly there was no definition on Wikipedia, so here’s something to start with:

I’d consider a field knife to be a “medium” length and weight fixed blade that can function well and ergonomically in a variety of roles, including wood carving, light chopping, light wood splitting, food preparation and self defense.

A field knife should be durable enough to function as a survival knife, although I wouldn’t consider all survival knives to be field knives.

These are my favorite outdoor knives:
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The five pictured horizontally on the bottom right are all of my “field knives”.

From top to bottom - H.I. Mini Bowie; @maxipescie Hunter; SYKCO AD6 with @David Mary regrind; Busse Dirt Dart Steel Heart; and Swamp Rat Taliwhacker.

The two big ones on the left (@Bill Siegle Chopper/Fighter, Swamp Rat SawManDu) are too large/heavy for me to think of them as field knives, and I consider them large survival knives.

As for the smaller knives on top, (John Greco Fighter, Swamp Rat Custom Shop Desert Storm Fighter, SYKCO WS 10/20, Shosui Takeda Utility) they don’t have the chopping ability to rank as field knives for me, although I still consider them to be small survival knives.

I just received the Busse today. It fills out my collection as my heaviest (15oz.) and most “survival-like” field knife, and inspired this post. I haven’t used it yet, but I expect it to work well based on how it feels.

As you can see I prefer straight, clip or trailing points on outdoor fixed blades - the only one with a drop point in the picture is the AD6…

Please post pics of your favorite field knives, and let me know if you have a different definition.
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Beautiful collection man. For me, the Cold Steel Recon Tanto and SRK do just fine as field knives. Tactical jack of all trades.

Funny you should mention semantics as we have the same mini conundrum in the watch collecting hobby. What exactly is a field watch? Does it always have to be the Hamilton Khaki style with Arabic numerals, sword hands, NATO strap, etc? That’s kinda ridiculous when you could honestly take a decently built and water sealed formal watch to the woods if you really wanted. Any reliable quartz or automatic watch could be a field watch lol.
 
Sean Riley said:
Hi cool breezy. I know this is an old thread. But what are the Three blades in the second picture down? I can only make out the out post one. Thank you for your time.
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Hello, the knife on the left is the Tops Silent Hero. The blade on the right is the Tops Outpost Command, and the one on the bottom is the Tops Apache Dawn. I recommend the Silent Hero the most out of the three pictured. It’s the lightest and most efficient cutting wise out of the three, and still very durable for hard use tasks like batoning and chopping and light prying.
 
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