Selecting best length for survival fixed blade.

[shane45-1911]

Why do you think they make smaller knives if “large knives can do anything smaller knives can do”?

For the people that think they don't need a big knife in a survival situation - until they are in one.

 

[King of the Cheese]

Every single thread you start and many of the ones you post in go down the gutter. And it is everyone else, not you?

You don’t think the same people showing up to sabotage it every single time has something to do with that? “Oh let’s go clutter up his threads and derail them and just pretend it happened naturally”.

You are not worth my time. Keep going
I've seen many like you come and go

Then stop posting here. I’ve asked you several times to stick to the topic yet you still want to make this sh*t personal. You bored yet?

 

[King of the Cheese]

You take 35 chops with your smaller knife and I take 10 with the larger one. Which is more efficient?

Try walking 30 miles with a 3 pound knife slapping off your leg vs. a 10 ounce knife and then come talk to me about “efficient”.

 

[DocJD]

build using a 4.5” knife in a hacking motion

What ?

Nope .

 

[King of the Cheese]

For the people that think they don't need a big knife in a survival situation - until they are in one.

How many “survival situations with a big knife” have you been in?

 

[Bob Denman]

Nobody walks 30 miles: they get a shelter built, and make fire for smoke...
And they hunker down.

 

[King of the Cheese]

What ?

Nope .

“No” what? You think you can’t do chops with a 4.5” knife? Have you even HELD a 4max or Spartan? And they aren’t even fixed.

 

[Jsega51]

Try walking 30 miles with a 3 pound knife slapping off your leg vs. a 10 ounce knife and then come talk to me about “efficient”.

But the knife I chose with a 10” blade, 16” OAL, only weighs 21oz. Stop grossly overestimating things to “sound” like you know what you’re talking about. And anyone going 30 miles will have it in their pack

 

[shane45-1911]

I’m not going to agree with you that the larger knife is better.

Of course you won't. And you knew that when you created your poll. Sorry your choice is currently losing by 3:1.

 

[King of the Cheese]

Nobody walks 30 miles: they get a shelter built, and make fire for smoke...

Great, thanks for the contribution. Nobody ever walks anywhere in a survival situation. Got it.

 

[shinyedges]

For the people that think they don't need a big knife in a survival situation - until they are in one.

He can not be reasoned with, refuses to acknowledge the error in his logic and denies the reality of what larger knives are capable of in HIS scenerio. This is embarrassing and cringe as hell, it happens almost daily with him.
His folder is just as strong as everyone elses fixed blades, he knows the true secret to survival knife size, he is a tax expert.

It would be amusing if it wasn't so annoying.

 

[shane45-1911]

You seem to be forgetting that the medium sized knife will require more time and effort than the larger knife: with each task.

He is not forgetting, he is not comprehending no matter how many times he has been told by multiple people.

 

[King of the Cheese]

But the knife I chose with a 10” blade, 16” OAL, only weighs 21oz. Stop grossly overestimating things to “sound” like you know what you’re taking about.

Take your own advice. A 16” knife that weighs 21oz is still more annoying to carry than a 4.5” knife that weighs half that. There are pros and cons. Just because a couple of you are team “big blade” doesn’t mean I have to agree with you. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?

 

[Bob Denman]

He's already dead... his statements have pointed to his lack of expertise in a tough situation...

 

[shane45-1911]

Try walking 30 miles with a 3 pound knife slapping off your leg vs. a 10 ounce knife and then come talk to me about “efficient”.

Walking 30 miles is the last thing you should be doing in a survival situation, unless you are POSITIVE you know where you are going, and how long it will take you to get there, and what physical obstacles may be in your way (rivers, canyons, etc.).

Walking means expending calories, It takes you away from the place people would expect you to be, it means leaving whatever shelter you hopefully have already built, or started to. It puts you in danger of multiple hazards (trip and falls, hypothermia at night, loss of bearings, etc.).

Just stop arguing with people who may actually have a clue.

 

[trevitrace]

You want to argue to the death about knife size. I merely said there are pros and cons to someone early on and it sent you into a damn spiral of arguing.

No, I just don’t care. I chose the option that best suits me. You don’t agree? Tough sh*t.

None of your business. I’m not getting into a survivalist pissing contest with you.

You assume much about people you don’t know. You shouldn’t.

2 or 3 of your buddies isn’t “rode by everyone”. Just because you got a little gaggle of people ganging up and sh*tposting doesn’t mean the entire forum is team Shiney Edges, so drop the 2nd grade playground routine.

Again with the “no one likes you and you’re going to get banned” bullsh*t. Debate the topic or get lost. Tired of your grade school bully routine.

So you're upset someone with experience using a larger knife is giving reasons why they think that size works better for them, admonishing them for it, then asking he debate the topic? Isn't that what he's been doing?

 

[King of the Cheese]

He can not be reasoned with, refuses to acknowledge the error in his logic and denies the reality of what larger knives are capable of in HIS scenerio.

There you go assuming everyone that doesn’t agree with you is stupid.

This is embarrassing and cringe as hell, it happens almost daily with him.

No, we just disagree on many things. Something you have a hard time dealing with.

His folder is just as strong as everyone elses fixed blades, he knows the true secret to survival knife size, he is a tax expert.

And this is on topic how?

It would be amusing if it wasn't so annoying.

I really don’t care what you find “annoying”. I’m not here to please you.

 

[King of the Cheese]

Walking 30 miles is the last thing you should be doing in a survival situation, unless you are POSITIVE you know where you are going, and how long it will take you to get there.

You’re the last person I want advice on survivalist ruck marching from. Trust me.

 

[King of the Cheese]

So you're upset someone with experience using a larger knife is giving reasons why they think that size works better for them, admonishing them for it, then asking he debate the topic? Isn't that what he's been doing?

What, you saw the pile-on and decided one more was needed? Glad you waited for the right time to jump in.

 

[Jsega51]

Just because a couple of you are team “big blade” doesn’t mean I have to agree with you. Why is this so difficult for you to understand?

I didn’t say you had to agree with me, or anyone:

In a survival situation, all your preconceived notions are thrown out the window. That’s what you’re not seeing. It doesn’t matter what knife you have, you have to use it for everything.

Your choice isn’t wrong. My choice isn’t wrong. No one’s choice is wrong, yet here you are as expected pointing out situations just to go against peoples choices.