What is YOUR Survival knife?

[timberweasel]

 

[MrKnifekid]

Becker BK-2.

'Nuff said.

 

[Peroni1973]

Mine would be my Bark River Bravo 1 in Green Canvas Micarta - it ain't pretty but in A2 it is tough but can readily be re-sharpened. I'd be happy enough if I could reach my Falkie custom handled F1 too.

Truth is there would be at least one folder on me and if it was that serious I'd want it to be the bigger of my options, probably my ZT0200 even though I hardly ever carry it.

Worse case, I'd have a Para-2 or my DPX Hest 2.0 on me as well. My BOB has an ESEE Izula as well as a bunch of real-world survival necessities in it (minus firearms - I'm in the UK!!).

Cheers!

Ben

 

[sisk61]

Probably my Koster Bushcraft. and i always have my Para 2 on me. Id much rather take an axe or hatchet than a knife. serves many uses.

 

[RDog]

This is a good looking chopper...are these a redo/copy of the 1990s "machetax" (not sure on the original spelling) or is it reinterduced by the original designer/maker? Always wanted one...

Easy choice for me.

This looks familiar...but can't put my finger on it...can you tell me more about it

 

[Jaytaylor]

Fallkniven A1 for me.

 

[clich]

This is a good looking chopper...are these a redo/copy of the 1990s "machetax" (not sure on the original spelling) or is it reinterduced by the original designer/maker? Always wanted one...



This looks familiar...but can't put my finger on it...can you tell me more about it

Becker machax. Your right its a reintroduction. Previously made by camillus, Now by Kabar. They have an LE for sale now, roll stamped logos and flat matte coating. The standard production will be out soon and will be laser etched logos and a textured coating. She is a beast!

 

[upnorth]

Whatever's at hand. But I suppose you want to see something like this.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

This looks familiar...but can't put my finger on it...can you tell me more about it

It's a piece of my own design that'll be seeing production in 2013. The pictured piece is my personal prototype. It draws influence primarily from British billhooks, but also features a bit of influence from other sources. It represents my idealized all-around use machete and survival tool designed specifically with the North American temperate zones in mind. Lots of features crammed into it but I don't want to explain them here and derail the thread further. Feel free to shoot me an email though.

 

[Snakemonkey555]

My Fallkiniven F1 and my DC4.

 

[Moosez45]

BK2
BK9
BK16

Which ever is closest to the door.

Moose

 

[lumberjacker]

my tom brown tracker

 

[bladeboss]

I've never been too big on fixed blades. I like them, and i'd buy them, but i like to have a knife that i can have in public without getting kicked out of stores or stared at funny.
I usually carry a strong knife with me anyways.
My Cold Steel Mini AK-47.
Out of all of my knives, it has the best lock, and i dont see it breaking soon.
Its also my favorite, and best knife i have.
But if were not talking just knives here, I'd definitely have to choose a hatchet. Any hatchet.
I'd take a hatchet over a machete/knife any day in terms of survival.

 

[ArfinGreebly]

Hypothetically, if you had to get out of your house fast, in some emergency/doomsday/etc. situation, what would be the knife you would grab? What is the knife that you could depend your life on? The knife that could do the most tasks in one package? The one you would want if you were stranded in the wilderness?

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

I cringe every time one of these threads appears. It's almost like someone is offering to wipe out my family, but allowing me to choose one of them to live. There are no winning moves.

However, if I put my nightmare aside, I can contemplate the idea from the viewpoint of "survive what?"

Is it cheating if I already have a half dozen knives on my person, simply because I'm dressed? There are no scenarios for my being at home (or at work), having pants, and not having a minimum of three knives.

Setting that aside, let's imagine for a moment that I get to grab just one knife, knowing it would have to keep me alive outdoors . . . and let's imagine that my Finnish/Lapland Leuku/Puukko combo with the piggy-back sheath is unavailable ('cuz it's not "one knife"), and I've just started getting dressed after selecting a new pair of pants and haven't filled my pockets yet, and I can't grab my jacket (which always has at least one knife in the pocket), and we'll continue to string implausible events together to the point where nothing I would normally have handy is available, but I have time to dig through my drawers and boxes for "the one perfect survival knife" with which I will survive and repopulate the earth (or is that another movie?), then let's see . . .

Normark/Fiskars fixed blade (puukko), 1967

. . . I was digging around in one of my boxes recently, and I ran across one that's a virtual twin to this knife here. Mine has exactly the same bolster stamp as the one pictured at the link. Mine is virtually unused. I spent a couple of minutes dressing the edge to "stupid sharp" condition and used it to fix dinner. Awesome cutter. Looks exactly like this:

I have a whole array of Scandinavian knives. I have Moras, old and new, I have Jaarvenpaa knives, Marttiini knives, and some obscure knives made by older makers no longer in business. There are plenty more that I don't own (like the new FireKnife), but among those I do have, the older Normark knives are real standouts. I have other versions of the Normark Puukko that look very similar indeed, but are made with Marttiini hand-forged carbon steel blades (and absurdly sharp).

However, just to grab-n-go, knowing the knife would have to do everything needed of a knife, I find it hard to beat as the most broad-spectrum cutting tool.


That said . . .

. . . you may fully expect me to cheat if you ever show up and run this drill at my house. There's no way you'll catch me running off into the woods with just one knife.

 

[Coyote3855]

This is more than a single knife, but all are in my go bag.

 

[Longtrang]

I have a few.

 

[kurodrago]

Condor Bushlore + CS Pipehawk which are a very Nice Combo, or one of those.

 

[GingivitisKahn]

Funky - I gave this exact same answer in another semi-similar thread...

Probably be the Becker BK9 my kids got me a while back. It does little things well enough...

... and big things very well...

EDCing it would be rough til I replaced a folder or my BK11 tho - heh.

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Beckerhead #42

 

[whetrock]

For a do-all blade it's pretty hard to beat the Busse B10LE.

 

[mamun1024]

If I had to choose one knife, it would be this...

Here are few more that would do the job just as well.