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
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Paratrooper06 said:
Look, let me level with you here… I know you’re arguing with me because of who I am, and the points to be had for the team by trying to make me look bad. I wasn’t born yesterday. Maybe consider that 24 out of 44 people picked a knife under 6”, and you’re fixated on me for preferring the GNS.
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Wrong. I don't know you from adam. You have taken it upon yourself to be the contrarian on EVERYTHING. Which I find annoying. I don't have a "team" and I get no points. I said what i said in this thread from experience.
 
Paratrooper06 said:
The poll was simple. People showing up to argue with me made it what it is. Don’t compare me to Lasador when I’m still here after the first post.
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You got all bent out of shape when people didn't support what YOU thought your poll results should show, in support of YOUR knife in question (LT Wright 4.5").

Now I'm out. I am tired of people like you, Lasador. etc. clogging up this forum with what used to be educational, fun discussions.
 
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shane45-1911 said:
BULLSHIT. You got all bent out of shape when people didn't support what YOU thought your poll results should show, in support of YOUR knife in question (LT Wright 4.5").

Now I'm out. I am tired of dipshits like you, Lasador. etc. clogging up this forum with what used to be educational, fun discussions.

Hey mods, ban me if you wish. But I will continue to call a fucktard a fucktard when I see one.

PARATROOPER = FUCKTARD
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Hey no need for personal insults, brother. We can disagree without losing our cool.
 
shane45-1911 said:
I am not your brother and and I am quite cool. I am just tired of the SHIT on this forum and very little effort to clean any of it up.
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I think the mods do just fine, maybe you just have a problem with people disagreeing with you? I don’t see what is such a big deal about fixed blade length that would make you flip out on me like that.
 
shinyedges said:
The horse has been beaten again. Good god. Why does every thread of yours end in you arguing, and losing?

Don't you get tired of it? Stop taking up losing positions, guy. You think everyone here is just out to say the opposite of you? Maybe you ought to do some introspection and see if you are the one who needs to reconsider your position?
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Or perhaps actually use a blade and share your conclusions , that would be a change .
 
shane45-1911 said:
Hey mods, ban me if you wish, since there is reluctance to deal with the real problems of late. But I will continue to call a fucktard a fucktard when I see one.

PARATROOPER = FUCKTARD
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Take this for what it's worth... I would prefer not to ban you but if you don't edit that post I will.
Paratrooper06 said:
I’m sorry but I need to remove your ability to comment here. It isn’t productive.
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And his ability to post has been restored.

Thread open.
 
Shane, needless to say my "like" showed up after the edit. ;)
 
I will err on the side of a longer knife if I only get one.

This has never happened to me...in decades of camping, scouting as a Boy Scout, an Eagle Scout, and a decade plus as a leader on Scouting Trips.

The last 20 mile day I did, I did not take a large fixed blade because the area I was in, we were not allowed to cut any foliage. The camp area was well established. And Opinel and a more robust locking folder were taken.

(I was going I to a known area, where at the end of the hike the food and other supplies were waiting).

I can't think of another overnighter hike or canoe trip where I only had one knife...

Typically, where I will have a light saw, a fixed blade, and a few folders for details work.

Often it is a tomahawk, a smaller fixed blade and a folder...

or a Machete, a smaller fixed blade and a folder.

But your poll, your imaginary rules, I guess.


A larger fixed blade will cut notches in sticks just fine.....

Small game like Rabbit, and squirrels and fowl don't really need much knife work.

You had asked how someone would hunt squirrels with their big knife? How would you hunt them with your small fixed blade? It is a non question..... the answer is neither.

You use a throwing stick, or a Spear, or a Spear thrower (Atlatl), or a stick bow (if you are really out surviving I guess).

Even the lowly rock is preferable to "hunting" small game with a knife... were you planning on throwing your knife? Or running small game down and stabbing it??

I don't always bring bigger blades (because I will pack a fast cutting arborist saw), but it is normally an "and" situation.
 
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