Promar bait knife for bushcraft?

[KeanusArmory]

yesterday i was looking around cash converters and i picked up this knife because it looked a bit like a mora knockoff and i was wondering if it would make a good bushcrafting knife. Does anyone here have any experience with promar knives? Are they strong enough to handle bushcrafting chores?

 

[Balls Deep]

yesterday i was looking around cash converters and i picked up this knife because it looked a bit like a mora knockoff and i was wondering if it would make a good bushcrafting knife. Does anyone here have any experience with promar knives? Are they strong enough to handle bushcrafting chores?

While I have not handled this knife I would throw out that the primary purpose of a bait knife is to not rust. Steel quality can afford to be very low if all your doing is cutting up fish bits or other organic matter and the heat treat would be less important as well. What I would expect of a $4 bait knife would be for it to not rust and that's about it. I would imagine the steel would probably be too soft for bush crafting, probably 420j2 steel or something to that effect.

 

[Hickory n steel]

It's a copy of the Mora 511.
The steel is probably not going to be great, so I wouldn't use it for woodcraft.
You can get a real mora 511 for 9$, or keep an eye out for an old carbon steel utility pattern kitchen knife ( they often look like a slightly bigger plain edge steak knife ) at a thrift store.

 

[panoz77]

Wahoo killers are about the same for $2, but I can testify that the SS on a wahoo killer will rust when exposed to just fresh water. But for $2, it is built as good as a Mora, just with crappy quality SS. That said, I have about a dozen of them stashed around the house just to have a blade nearby.

I have heard that Walmart is carrying a Mora type bait knife for around $2 as well, I have not seen one yet, but I've been looking out of curiosity.