Survival/Camping/Bushcraft fixed blade

[Ebbtide]

If you really need to chop and baton, the smallest Ontario machete.

Pair that with a quality small fixed blade and you’ll be G2G.
Dozier Personal Utility

Dozier Slim Outdoorsman

 

[not2sharp]

Need to take a solid reliable fixed blade knife into the mountains on a week long primitive camping trip.
I am looking at the Demko Freereign 3v and the White River Ursus 45 Magnacut.
Any recommendations?
Thanks.

Will this include hiking, hunting, fishing, trail maintenance, building camp fires or shelters; will you be alone or in a group? What’s your targeted budget?

There is no ideal knife out there, but there are tools that work better for certain tasks. Sort that out and let us know so we can best help you.

N2s

 

[Blue Sky]

If you really need to chop and baton, the smallest Ontario machete.

Pair that with a quality small fixed blade and you’ll be G2G.

Sound advice, the 12” Ontario is a workhorse and much handier than the 18’s IMO.

 

[StrangeDaze]

If you really need to chop and baton, the smallest Ontario machete.

Pair that with a quality small fixed blade and you’ll be G2G.
Dozier Personal Utility

Dozier Slim Outdoorsman

It really is hard to beat a good machete.
That Dozier Personal utility looks sweet.
I think a basic steel is a good place to start and you can get some good practice at sharpening.
I can recommend something like an esee 6, buck 119, becker bk16, opinel #8-12, mora 511 or basic, a SAK with an awl and a little on the large side but a kaber extreme d2.
If you want to go custom i can recommend JD Custom Knives, Tony Mont and Good Knife Company.
I would start with production first though and figure out what you like and need.

 

[VorpelSword]

Need to take a solid reliable fixed blade knife into the mountains on a week long primitive camping trip.
I am looking at the Demko Freereign 3v and the White River Ursus 45 Magnacut.
Any recommendations?
Thanks.

Are you backpacking in or on horseback?

Is weight an issue?

You might consider a Chris Reves "Backpacker". Magnicut, not too large/heavy.

 

[Hammer67]

No need to get lost in the weeds looking at a thousand alternatives.

Agreed. No need for further suggestions.

....and you should check out Architect blades.

 

[R.Russell]

The Dozier knives, as suggested, would be excellent. There may even be one for sale on the boards.

 

[The Grendels]

Asking for camping knife suggestions around here is a bit like throwing raw meat to a pack of hyenas. You'll get a lot of good suggestions. What knife best suits you on a trip is dependent on the activities you plan to do (shelter making, fire making, camp cooking, hunting, cutting paracord, etc.) and how far you're hiking into the bush from the trailhead. After anything more than a couple of days as Eeyore, carrying a good sized backpack, if there's a big sharp and pointy thing strapped to my pack that knife is getting a lot of side-eye looks if it isn't getting a ton of use. On multiple day hikes without a lot of knife use planned, I'll have a small folder and one person in the group will be carrying a multi-tool for kit repairs, unless I'm hiking into a base camp to stay there a while.

Multiple day hike and this pack is heavy, with minimal knife needs (cordage and food packaging): small folder like a Benchmade Bugout or Opinel #8.

Overnighter, with camp cooking: add a thin fixed blade like a Grohman No. 1, Enzo-Brisa 115 Kephart, or Cold Steel Slock Master

Want to do some bush crafty stuff but don't feel like hauling too much weight around: Boker Bronco Mini, Helle Viking, or Fallkniven F1

Want to go hardcore in the wild and have the trees tell horror stories about you afterwards to their saplings: there's probably a couple hundred knives that wouldn't be a bad choice, including: Battle Horse Battlelore, Casstrom Swedish Forest Knife No. 10, or Terava Jaakaripuukko 110. Also take a forester's axe, Silky Saw Big Boy 360, and/or Terava Skrama 240.