Survival Situation: 3-$100 or 1-$300 knife

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What would you choose, if you were in a wilderness survival situation, would you select three $100 knives or one $300 knife. I would choose the former.
 
3 knives over 1 every time. I usually carry two, a fixed blade and SAK, when out trekking the land and have a couple more when spending a few days in the field.
 
No question 1 quality $300 7+ inch blade that is guaranteed not to break.

You can't say that about any $100 blade.

What value do you put on your life?

Skam
 
skammer said:
No question 1 quality $300 7+ inch blade that is guaranteed not to break.

You can't say that about any $100 blade.

What value do you put on your life?

Skam
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I'm with Skammer. With the right steel, you can't go wrong.
Scott
 
I'm sorry I disagree with you all.

Thats why you have three! If your out there, in a survival situation, there is no one around to guarantee your "super wonder blade" will not to break!
 
Not to be contary, but there's no guarantee that your 3 $100.00 knives won't break either.
Scott
 
Myakka said:
I'm sorry I disagree with you all.

Thats why you have three! If your out there, in a survival situation, there is no one around to guarantee your "super wonder blade" will not to break!
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True enough.
The guarantee however comes at the point of manufacture not the point of use. I know my $300 blade will not break as I have tested it and the maker guarantees it without question. While I have broken $100 blades with no such gurantee.

This argument is pointless as there will always be people who believe having multiple disposable items is better than having one durable one. Does this phylosophy carry over to parachutes I wonder :rolleyes: .

Different strokes.

Skam
 
skammer said:
True enough.
The guarantee however comes at the point of manufacture not the point of use. I know my $300 blade will not break as I have tested it and the maker guarantees it without question. While I have broken $100 blades with no such gurantee.

Different strokes.

Skam
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Yes but for $300 bucks you can carry 6 Becker &Tool BK7s and there pretty tough.

With that said:

 
The problem I have with only having one knife, is that anything can happen and I'd like a backup, just in case.
 
i don't feel that any blade is ever abolutely positively guaranteed not to break. a manufacturer's guarantee is more a guarantee that they will stand behind he blade and replace it should something unforseen happen. once you enter "the unknown" there are no guarantees.

i hate to bring this up but everyone raves about SRKW being indestructible. the reason i won't purchase a camp tramp is the handle design, which cliff stamp has noted that he worked one loose after hard use of mostly chopping. if that handle comes off in the wilderness, it doesn't matter how good the guarantee is because you can't take advantage of it.

with three $100 blades you can choose something for each task that will give you better versatility in performance, as opposed to trying to make one "super blade" do something that it's not optimized for.

as usual, JMHO
 
I'd have to go with the three knives. My feeling is that usually a $300 knife is'nt 3 times better than a $100 knife. If you had a good fixed blade, a multi tool and a hatchet you would have a lot of bases covered and also not have all your eggs in one basket. Just my .02.



John
 
a friend of mine that was a navy seal said their motto is "one is none, two is one and three you have one for a buddy". there was a ship that was unsinkable-- the titanic, is there a knife that is unbreakable/unlosable? when it is my life on the line i would not bet on one of anything if i have a choice, neither would the navy seals.

pretty well sums up that question.

alex
 
Lets see...

14 Inch Tarmontina machete... $6
Newt Livesay NRGS....$40
Becker BK-7.... $50

Living in South America where I get to use them often in exotic places....

Priceless.

Mac
 
JTC said:
I'd have to go with the three knives. My feeling is that usually a $300 knife is'nt 3 times better than a $100 knife. If you had a good fixed blade, a multi tool and a hatchet you would have a lot of bases covered and also not have all your eggs in one basket. Just my .02.
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My experience with cheap blades is not the same as yours and I know I beat on my for all they are worth.

The question was not about hatchets and multitools but knives.

Skam
 
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