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I would pick any of my custom knives from Edmund Davidson, Scott Gossman,Jeremey Horton, Trace Rinaldi or Bill Siegle. I always have one of my custom knives with me here in the big timber and trust my life to these makers quality. I am waiting on a custom from Bruce Culberson that I know I will be able to trust my life with!
I prefer
1) To always carry more than one knife; and
2) Prepare so I don't get into a survival situation.
If I was going out with just one knife to play/practice survival, the knife would be a Vic Classic. Or a grocery store steak knife.
If you are going to go all "TV survival guru show" why use a great knife? What does that prove/accomplish?
1) To always carry more than one knife; and
2) Prepare so I don't get into a survival situation.
If I was going out with just one knife to play/practice survival, the knife would be a Vic Classic. Or a grocery store steak knife.
If you are going to go all "TV survival guru show" why use a great knife? What does that prove/accomplish?
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Survival with a great knife only puts the focus of the variables on the human and the environment. I would love to have any reliable knife in a survival situation, a real situation would suck, and a great knife may not make it better.
A great knife may even bring the situation up past a "survival" scenario, especially if you know what to do with it.
A cheap steak knife or other cheap knife may be used to make a friction fire, I could do that with any Old Hickory kitchen knife. The don't hold an edge too long, but they are tough. Actually, the problem wouldn't be the knife, finding the right material, the skill, and patience would be the hard part. Primitive man did it without steel.
A great knife may even bring the situation up past a "survival" scenario, especially if you know what to do with it.
A cheap steak knife or other cheap knife may be used to make a friction fire, I could do that with any Old Hickory kitchen knife. The don't hold an edge too long, but they are tough. Actually, the problem wouldn't be the knife, finding the right material, the skill, and patience would be the hard part. Primitive man did it without steel.
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+1 for the Smatchet.
For me either my Ontario MKIII USN, my CRKT M60 SOTFB, or my Custom Mini-Bushcraft (Made by me).
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Machetes and choppers are great if your going to build a cabin, or a mini-mall, what about cleaning small game? fish? BK2 is the answer, i need one soo bad.
Precisely my point! The primitive man point is excellent. If one is going to go out and deliberately put themselves in a "survival" situation (how else would one get in a "survival" situation?)....then why not take it a step farther than "small knife" or "cheap knife" and go "no knife"?
Go flint knap.
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For me, I guess if I was really in a immanent SHTF situation where I would no longer be concerned with collectability and worth, I would grab either one or both of the following fixed blades for use in the field.
They would be either my Randall # 18 "Attack and Survival" with a 7 1/2" stainless steel blade with Vietnam war inspired pointed brass skullcrusher pommel, or a Jimmy Lile made "Sly ll" with a 9" 440C bead blasted blade and black parachord wrapped hollow handle.
Both knives are hollow handled (no full tang) and have compasses inside of their pommels.
The Lile has never been used in the field, but the Randall was one of my companions that I carried when I was in the Army on occasion and basically did it all although the blade being stainless steel was a little hard to keep sharp after heavy usage and had to be touched up quite a bit at times..
My Randall advice, if you the knife newbie were ever to get one, get it in their carbon tool steel over the Stainless since it dulls quickly with heavy use, so go carbon unless you plan or enjoy sharpening it often..
Cheers,
Serge
They would be either my Randall # 18 "Attack and Survival" with a 7 1/2" stainless steel blade with Vietnam war inspired pointed brass skullcrusher pommel, or a Jimmy Lile made "Sly ll" with a 9" 440C bead blasted blade and black parachord wrapped hollow handle.
Both knives are hollow handled (no full tang) and have compasses inside of their pommels.
The Lile has never been used in the field, but the Randall was one of my companions that I carried when I was in the Army on occasion and basically did it all although the blade being stainless steel was a little hard to keep sharp after heavy usage and had to be touched up quite a bit at times..
My Randall advice, if you the knife newbie were ever to get one, get it in their carbon tool steel over the Stainless since it dulls quickly with heavy use, so go carbon unless you plan or enjoy sharpening it often..
Cheers,
Serge
Just out of curiousity....then why would you even consider taking only it in a "survival" situation?
+1
In some situations I'd prefer a saw over a knife, a shovel over a knife, a water bottle over a knife... oh so many situations!
But don't take me wrong, sure I'd like to have a knife!
Well, if you get yourself into survival situation - the make and the size of the knife probably would be the least of your warries... So all that "survival knives" might be just toys for boys. I guess neither the special "survival" knives, no the "tactical" ones did not exist as such untill receintly. That is all marketing, only marketing and nothing except marketing. As it was seid already above - any knife you happened to have would have do. The knife is not important - the skill of the user is all that counts.
Like some other things in life...Its not the size but knowing how to use it that makes the difference.
If I had a choice, I would likely pick my old Becker Brute. I also like my Entrek Elk and use it frequently as my primary knife in the field. The sheath that came with it was next to useless but I had a local leather maker make me a custom pancake sheath in heavy leather for it. I can think of a number of others in my collection that would do with some skill in using edged tool to obtain one's basic needs in whatever environment one has to cope with.
If I had a choice, I would likely pick my old Becker Brute. I also like my Entrek Elk and use it frequently as my primary knife in the field. The sheath that came with it was next to useless but I had a local leather maker make me a custom pancake sheath in heavy leather for it. I can think of a number of others in my collection that would do with some skill in using edged tool to obtain one's basic needs in whatever environment one has to cope with.- Joined
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Marcinek wrote:
As I stated earlier, the only time I would use the pre-dot Lile would be in a SHTF situation, like total collapse of the government, power grid failure, ZOMBIE attack, etc, whenever the world and everything we ever knew would be gone forever.
At that time, as I prepare to hunker down and wait it out, or plan to get the hell outta Dodge, I would want the best steel strapped to my LBE, besides my weapon of choice, and AR-15, and that blade would be my Lile.
Until then, it will continue to reside in it's case where it probably will always be. In the meantime for any possible Little Red Riding Hood/Bear Gryllis lost in the woods situations, I'll fall back on either my Buck 119, or some type of Scandi with at least a 4" blade plus always some sort of multitool.
Cheers,
Serge
As I stated earlier, the only time I would use the pre-dot Lile would be in a SHTF situation, like total collapse of the government, power grid failure, ZOMBIE attack, etc, whenever the world and everything we ever knew would be gone forever.
At that time, as I prepare to hunker down and wait it out, or plan to get the hell outta Dodge, I would want the best steel strapped to my LBE, besides my weapon of choice, and AR-15, and that blade would be my Lile.
Until then, it will continue to reside in it's case where it probably will always be. In the meantime for any possible Little Red Riding Hood/Bear Gryllis lost in the woods situations, I'll fall back on either my Buck 119, or some type of Scandi with at least a 4" blade plus always some sort of multitool.
Cheers,
Serge
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How do you it's the best when it's never been used in the field?