Selecting best length for survival fixed blade.

What blade length of survivalist fixed blade knife would you select?

  • Less than 3”

    Votes: 4 2.8%

  • 3”-3.5”

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • 3.5”-4”

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • 4”-4.5”

    Votes: 9 6.3%

  • 4.5”-5”

    Votes: 14 9.8%

  • 5”-6”

    Votes: 38 26.6%

  • 6”-8”

    Votes: 30 21.0%

  • Greater than 8”

    Votes: 44 30.8%
  • Total voters
    143
  • Poll closed .
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Paratrooper06 said:
If you can’t keep your cool for 5 minutes in an internet forum, how the hell can anyone think you’d be competent in a survival scenario?
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I already told you - I am perfectly cool. And you are right, in my incompetence I may be tempted to leave you for bear bait.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
Don’t try the Buffalo Bill psycho-babble serial killer bullsh*t on me. I’m the last guy you’re going to frighten with your theatrics and tough talk. Trust me on THAT.
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What? He said he’d leave you for bear bait in a scenario that would literally never happen. Are you so mentally fragile that you turned that statement into “tough talk” in your mind? The only one here posturing tough at this point is you, and I’d wager you’re the last person who should be doing so, considering your free time is spent thinking up inane poll threads.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
Don’t try the Buffalo Bill psycho-babble serial killer bullsh*t on me. I’m the last guy you’re going to frighten with your theatrics and tough talk. Trust me on THAT.
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LMAO. I love internet tough guys. Serial killer bullshit?? Are you smoking crack? WTF are you even talking about? I don't think it is why a greater than 8" knife is better for survival, anymore.

So now what? Meet me at the playground after school?

JUST STOP TYPING.

P.S. Team 8+ now tied for first. GoooOOOOOO TEAM!!!!!!
 
shane45-1911 said:
LMAO. I love internet tough guys. Serial killer bullshit?? Are you smoking crack? WTF are you even talking about? I don't think it is why a greater than 8" knife is better for survival, anymore.
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You’re the one trying the intimidation routine.
shane45-1911 said:
So now what? Meet me at the playground after school?
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Well you wouldn’t have far to travel, you’re already there.
shane45-1911 said:
JUST STOP TYPING.
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No.
shane45-1911 said:
P.S. Team 8+ now tied for first. GoooOOOOOO TEAM!!!!!!
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(PMs sent) “Hey guys, since Paratrooper mentioned that 8+ is losing, wouldn’t it be funny if we got a bunch of people to vote for it? Lol!”

Nah, I saw the results and I consider the poll basically complete as I’m sure some of you tried to skew the data after I mentioned the results. The results are in. 5-6 wins.
 
These threads could be more productive if everyone got less personal .

This is supposed to be about survival knife length , not the comparative lengths of our other equipage . ;)
 
For about 90% of the people reading this thread, myself included, any single knife regardless of the length or width or weight is going to be outpaced by our lack of survival skills...unless it is a hollow handled survival knife with a fully charged satellite phone jammed in the cavity where fishing line is generally stored.

The premise is flawed: setting out on purpose with just know knife to do it all but leaving behind invaluable tools like a hatchet? IF I were going out on my own with only one edged tool, I may very well pick a nice hatchet over a small knife or a large knife if forced to choose. I can do a lot of the cutting jobs a small knife can do with a good sharp axe yet still process wood and split animal carcasses if the weird need arises.

So given the ill-advised perimeters, I would elect to bring a thin stock khukuri. 15" overall length sporting about 10" of blade. Weighing about 15oz. So, under a pound, easy to sharpen steel, good chopping ability, useful for finer work if you have been handling them for a couple of decades like i have. No frills but a solid jack of all trade tool.

That said, if I were in a plane crash with nothing more than my 3.75" Fiddleback Monarch, I know that my survival skills could mostly be augmented with just that little fixed blade. I could make a fire and press it into making some sort of emergency shelter. I could process what little food I could scrounge, and give enough time and smashed fingers I could figure out how to set a dead fall or a snare.

In short, I would be well dead before I ran out of blade using just the 3.75" or died from exhaustion trying to hump it 30 miles with the mentioned 3lb knife that weighs more than my 40+" Scottish Claymore. No one that stumbled across my cleanly picked bones would tisk and shake their head, "If only he had carried more/less knife...:
 
DocJD said:
These threads could be more productive if everyone got less personal .

This is supposed to be about survival knife length , not the comparative lengths of our other equipage . ;)
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Doc, I have some groupies. This isn’t the norm. You’ll have to just accept that any thread I start brings out 5 or 6 of the same people every time that linger and derail things.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
Nah, I saw the results and I consider the poll basically complete as I’m sure some of you tried to skew the data after I mentioned the results. The results are in. 5-6 wins.
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So your knife lost, huh?

TEAM 8+ is now winning!!!!! GOOOOOO TEAM!!!!!!!! Again, not sure what poll you are looking at.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
You’re the one trying the intimidation routine.

Well you wouldn’t have far to travel, you’re already there.

No.

(PMs sent) “Hey guys, since Paratrooper mentioned that 8+ is losing, wouldn’t it be funny if we got a bunch of people to vote for it? Lol!”

Nah, I saw the results and I consider the poll basically complete as I’m sure some of you tried to skew the data after I mentioned the results. The results are in. 5-6 wins.
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PMs? Don't think he has that capability. I'm sure you'll have one queued up, but what's your backup theory?
 
trevitrace said:
PMs? Don't think he has that capability. I'm sure you'll have one queued up, but what's your backup theory?
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Right I’m certain a bunch of people just came out and voted 8+ in the last hour just as a coincidence :rolleyes:😆😅

Couldn't just let the people decide, noooo. Not when there’s a chance to get even with Paratrooper for saying 8+ is in 2nd place! Lol
 
Paratrooper06 said:
(PMs sent) “Hey guys, since Paratrooper mentioned that 8+ is losing, wouldn’t it be funny if we got a bunch of people to vote for it? Lol!”
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I've already wasted more than enough time with you. I would not consider purposely dragging anyone else into your paranoid schizophrenic world and this train-wreck of a thread.
 
shane45-1911 said:
OK, done for the night. After I text, email, phone, fax, telegraph, smoke signal and snail mail a few more recruits for Team 8+, that is.
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It’s funny because literally every vote for the past hour has been 8+. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
It’s funny because literally every vote for the past hour has been 8+. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what happened.
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Then why can't you figure it out? Ever think that maybe 8+ is the correct answer, Einstein?

You are delusional if you truly believe I care enough about this thread to try to somehow influence votes.
 
shane45-1911 said:
Then why can't you figure it out? Ever think that maybe 8+ is the correct answer, Einstein?

You are delusional if you truly believe I care enough about this thread to try to somehow influence votes.
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Don’t get all hyper just because the mod let you redeem yourself. You and shiny edges said multiple times you were done with this thread and leaving.. why aren’t you a man of your word? I thought you were so angry and upset that I’m here you were going to storm off with your panties in a wad?
 
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