Hi! I also feel these definitions survival, tactical, military, hard use, etc. regarding knives are mostly marketing terms and sometimes misleading. I also agree survival is not the same as bushcraft, though some skills one can learn by bushcrafting, can be very useful in a real survival situation. Rarely I have heard stories about people who really survived disasters having their favorite survival knives with them

. Survival is more a state of mind, the ability to endure in sometimes hostile, harsh environments without all the commodities we give for granted in daily life. One can train for that, to some extent, but its not so uncommon to hear even big, well trained guys breaking down and dying and not surviving disasters. The main issue, in my opinion, is disasters mostly come unexpected and life its the thing happening while you are busy making plans

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About knives, I think that what is generally called improperly survival knife is, in reality, any good all-rounder utility camp knife. Like someone said, I also dont think that this is necessarily the best tool in a survival scenario. It can be, sometimes, somewhere, a SAK would be a much better choice for some folks, for some others it would be a axe, for others a saw, etc. It really boils down, in my opinion, to individual skills.
About batoning, I have nothing against this practice and, like for all the other techniques, I think its worth practicing. And its rather funny at the end of the day!

Frankly speaking, when out hiking, if the case, or simply if I wish to, Id rather baton with a small camping hatchet (the Fiskars X5 these days) and use my knife for the cutting tasks its designed for. I agree, at least for my experiences in alpine environment, 90% of the cases batoning its not necessary

. I get easy wood just by breaking dead branches with my hands most of the time and use as is or do some feather-sticks out of it. Batoning, for me, its mainly for fun!