What is size is your primary fixed blade for the woods?

7 inch fixed blade for bigger jobs and as a bear knife, together with a 4 inch folder both on the belt. It is plenty enough for most tasks.
 
Mora + pocket knife + folding saw seems to work well... i do love GB axes though but certainly are not necessary for simply camping or hunting
 
I've never found a need for a knife longer than 3.5-4 inches in the eastern woods, except for bear defense in the National Parks before they began honoring CCW permits.
 
Bufford said:
7 inch fixed blade for bigger jobs and as a bear knife, together with a 4 inch folder both on the belt. It is plenty enough for most tasks.
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You carry a 7 inch fixed blade as a bear knife? I think I'd change my itinerary to include KOA sites with swimming pools, showers and NO bears waking me up by dismembering me!! :eek:
 
My BK2 has become my primary on the hip knife. The "Campanion" is a full tang heavy duty field knife suited for a number of camping or hunting chores. The 1095 Carbon steel straight flat ground edged blade takes a super sharp edge and easy to sharpen in the field.
The thick blade allows for chopping, hacking, prying, splitting kindling, or slicing. The drop point blade is well suited for field dressing and skinning game from squirrels to bison The hollow Grivory handle is comfortable, even with long hard use without hot spots or blisters and makes the blade nimble and easy to control for even the finest cutting tasks. The hollow handle assures that I always have a few survival essentials with me in case disaster strikes. Either a Mercworx Equatorian Chili, BK9 or Kershaw D2 Outcast is generally strapped to the pack or in camp as my heavy duty choppers / defensive blade. An out of production Kershaw Outlaw folder along with a small Leek is generally in my pocket for smaller detail cutting. The BK2 is the one that stays with me as it will do everything all the other blades combined can do.
 
My work knife I carry daily has a 6" blade but that is all I take, sometimes I need and use a machete though. My favorite camping knives are 10 to 11 inches.
 
I carry my own custom, a TCK Mini-Bushcraft in L6 with a 3.25" blade, my own custom TCK Prairie Dog with a 4" blade, an Ontario Knife Company Mark III, or my Custom machete with a 16" blade.
 
for me lately its been a camp tramp and SS4 or a swamp warden. more primitive stuff a Battle Rat and the new 511 is a great combo also Res-c seems to allow you to carry alot of knife and not be real heavy. my buddy has a Junglas and RC-3, that is a wicked combo also!!
 
Forgive my shameless display of last year's Christmas bounty from my wife, but it illustrates my point. The BM 171 BladeSports Chopper is just a bit of overkill - the CRK Nyala - is just about right. But that is for me - in the SE USA where we have forests - not bamboo laden jungles. Put me down for a 3-4" fb - usually. Often a folder, too - like a Buck 110 - or a BM of some kind.

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I actually long for simpler days - when I actually hiked and camped - and thought a Buck 192 Vanguard was perfect!

Stainz

PS I bought a BK2 last spring - great bargain.
 
cziv said:
You carry a 7 inch fixed blade as a bear knife? I think I'd change my itinerary to include KOA sites with swimming pools, showers and NO bears waking me up by dismembering me!! :eek:
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Its not much, but my passion for the forest and for the fact that I live in the middle of it, won't let bears or anything else deter me from enjoying the great outdoors. IMHO they built KOA sites for people just like you:D
 
Bufford said:
Its not much, but my passion for the forest and for the fact that I live in the middle of it, won't let bears or anything else deter me from enjoying the great outdoors. IMHO they built KOA sites for people just like you:D
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That may or may not be the case, but I'll remember your post while reading the snippet in the NW Ontario news about still trying to find the remains of some dude named Bufford that took on a bear with a 7 inch knife. :D
 
True we are not as high up on the food chain as we would like to think, but don't let that stop you from heading into the woods.:thumbup:
 
Any proposal for knifes like Busses, but with a better, sharper and more pointed tip and a better guard? Blade shouldn´t be shorter than 10 inches. I only found these knifes with the typical chopper tip, which is to round for stabbing.
 
Tomahawk (current favorite is FT Buck Hawk) with either my old Camillus "Kabar" or Camillus Becker #7.

...or...

Big honkin' khukri of about 20" OAL.
 
I like buying large knives. I don't like carrying them. :D

Here's my fixed blade for hiking and working outdoors:
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For me it's gotta be the Becker BK-2 (Love the flat grind.) it's almost like a block splitter! and the ESEE 5 for all the detailed work! Love em!

They seem stay sharp even after batoning piles of firewood and can still split half inch pieces neatly.
 
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