What's you all in 1 survival tool?

RedLynx said:
Congrats man, those are amazing. Smooth handles really appeal to me. I like stag/jigged bone etc as well, but I'm really into traditionals with pretty smooth handles like that. They're just awesome to hold, much more use.
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Totally agreed--I love the wooden handles too (the #23 trapper, however, is smooth buffalo horn) and thanks! Hope you score a nice 42!
 
TheBushWookie said:
Not that often but I believe you would be in a normal survival situation more often then in a situation where you are running around hoping you don't run crotch first into a bush with thorns because you somehow lost your pants,Also I'm not trying to prove there is a definitive all in one tool I think you missed the point of this thread my good sir.
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It could happen, man, those chimpanzees have been shopping for a new pair of jeans, and nudity isn't allowed in the zoo, so really, it's a pretty solid idea to prep for it.
 
TheBushWookie said:
Not that often but I believe you would be in a normal survival situation more often then in a situation where you are running around hoping you don't run crotch first into a bush with thorns because you somehow lost your pants,Also I'm not trying to prove there is a definitive all in one tool I think you missed the point of this thread my good sir.
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I think you mean that "it is more LIKELY that you would be in a situation in which you still had your pants". I can agree with that.

And no, I dont think I've missed the point of the thread. If so, then you need to change the title to more accurately represent it's point;)
 
My preferred do-all woods tool is my Baryonyx Machete, but I'm naturally biased. If I could only have one edged tool for the rest of my life it'd be that hands down, as there's very little I can't do with it with relative ease.
 
How bout this situation. Few years ago was camping out on an island just north of the narrows on lake George. Now there is a overly large amount of rattlesnakes in that area as they have colonized tongue mountain in some seriously high #. Anyway my brother and I are out cold asleep next thing my brother kicks me I think not really sure but I awoke to a rattler 2 ft from his face n less than four from mine. Luckily I had laid my axe(hudsonbay style at that time) rite next to me. I whispered to him to roll away rite quick on three and started my swing on two. We were lucky snake was just under 6 ft and as big around as a fire hose. Talk about needing a change of underwear. Now I ask what good what a knife do u there.
 
Krissig12 said:
I think you mean that "it is more LIKELY that you would be in a situation in which you still had your pants". I can agree with that.

And no, I dont think I've missed the point of the thread. If so, then you need to change the title to more accurately represent it's point;)
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I don't know, when those monkeys point a banana at you and demand that you hand over the pants, they mean business.

I need to go to sleep but this thread is more exciting because I can talk about monkeys stealing pantaloons.
 
jfk1110 said:
How bout this situation. Few years ago was camping out on an island just north of the narrows on lake George. Now there is a overly large amount of rattlesnakes in that area as they have colonized tongue mountain in some seriously high #. Anyway my brother and I are out cold asleep next thing my brother kicks me I think not really sure but I awoke to a rattler 2 ft from his face n less than four from mine. Luckily I had laid my axe(hudsonbay style at that time) rite next to me. I whispered to him to roll away rite quick on three and started my swing on two. We were lucky snake was just under 6 ft and as big around as a fire hose. Talk about needing a change of underwear. Now I ask what good what a knife do u there.
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The machete in the pic above your post might work--as with a big Becker or Busse, or one of Cricket Dave's beasts--but I appreciate the longer handle on the axe, especially for that situation... damn, that must have sucked. Glad to hear no one was bit.
 
jfk1110 said:
How bout this situation. Few years ago was camping out on an island just north of the narrows on lake George. Now there is a overly large amount of rattlesnakes in that area as they have colonized tongue mountain in some seriously high #. Anyway my brother and I are out cold asleep next thing my brother kicks me I think not really sure but I awoke to a rattler 2 ft from his face n less than four from mine. Luckily I had laid my axe(hudsonbay style at that time) rite next to me. I whispered to him to roll away rite quick on three and started my swing on two. We were lucky snake was just under 6 ft and as big around as a fire hose. Talk about needing a change of underwear. Now I ask what good what a knife do u there.
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Lol wut?
 
My good man First Congrats on getting away from that without getting bitten, Second You have a great point! IMO if there were a All in 1 tool it probably would be something similar to an axe or machete just like FortyTwoBlades suggested
 
Krissig12 said:
I think you mean that "it is more LIKELY that you would be in a situation in which you still had your pants". I can agree with that.

And no, I dont think I've missed the point of the thread. If so, then you need to change the title to more accurately represent it's point;)
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The point of the thread was if you had to choose 1 tool to be your all in 1 tool to survive what would it be, I'm not saying the tool itself has to be an all purpose tool just that if you were to bring 1 item to do everything you needed to do what would it be?
 
Like I said fruit stripes in my shorts. Have always carried a 6-7" and 3-5" knife and some form of axe on all my camping trips. Have had some interesting adventures. If u want to read about a camping trip gone bad you should read night of the grizzly
 
jfk1110 said:
How bout this situation. Few years ago was camping out on an island just north of the narrows on lake George. Now there is a overly large amount of rattlesnakes in that area as they have colonized tongue mountain in some seriously high #. Anyway my brother and I are out cold asleep next thing my brother kicks me I think not really sure but I awoke to a rattler 2 ft from his face n less than four from mine. Luckily I had laid my axe(hudsonbay style at that time) rite next to me. I whispered to him to roll away rite quick on three and started my swing on two. We were lucky snake was just under 6 ft and as big around as a fire hose. Talk about needing a change of underwear. Now I ask what good what a knife do u there.
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It sucks that apparently my machete or BK9 wouldn't do any good there. They're only as long or longer than a medium sized hatchet, just extra blade lenght and all that jazz. What utter pieces of crap, surely inferior to your almighty hatchet.
 
I think any of those (machete, longer knife or hatchet) would serve quite well. What scares me most is he initiated the swing on two when his bro was going to hopefully get out of the way on three. Thank God that worked out for the best.
 
RedLynx said:
I think any of those (machete, longer knife or hatchet) would serve quite well. What scares me most is he initiated the swing on two when his bro was going to hopefully get out of the way on three. Thank God that worked out for the best.
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yeah, I was thinking the same thing...
 
TheBushWookie said:
There's a difference between that type of knife and a REAL survival knife like the Ontario ASEK knife, Atleast from what I can gather real survival knives like the ones you would find issued to military pilots are specifically designed with the "All in 1 tool" idea in mind. The different features on a good survival knife won't do tasks as well as a dedicated tool but it will do the task well enough to allow the person to do whatever he/she needs to do to survive till they can get to safety or rescue comes.
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Most people who are piloting multi million dollar hardware will have someone looking for them if they don't turn up, and fast too. Unless you're a pilot, that's out. I'm pretty weary of hearing the "If the military uses it, it must be legit". They have a lot of backup. The only tool you can truly have that will give you any hope for surviving an emergency is communication, telling people where you are going, how long, and when you're coming back. A simple text message can save your life. How hard was that?! And you get to buy big choppers to swing around, knowing that if something happens, someone will be looking for you and know where to look.
 
Aias said:
yeah, I was thinking the same thing...
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Hopefully my post doesn't sound condescending, it wasn't meant to be at all. I'm very glad that poster and his brother are both safe and sound, and since it was a huge poisonous snake, his quick action likely saved both their lives, I'd imagine. Good on him. Just the way he described that scenario going down could have gone horrifyingly bad in a split second. Glad everyone made it out of that.
 
B34NS said:
Most people who are piloting multi million dollar hardware will have someone looking for them if they don't turn up, and fast too. Unless you're a pilot, that's out. I'm pretty weary of hearing the "If the military uses it, it must be legit". They have a lot of backup. The only tool you can truly have that will give you any hope for surviving an emergency is communication, telling people where you are going, how long, and when you're coming back. A simple text message can save your life. How hard was that?! And you get to buy big choppers to swing around, knowing that if something happens, someone will be looking for you and know where to look.
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But the point was that the knives like the Ontario ASEK are designed to give people like downed pilots a small all in one tool to keep him/her alive till rescue can get there. Also when it's made by Ontario it's always going to be a very good knife, stating the fact that some of their products happen to be standard issue items in the military just help attract attention from people who haven't heard of the company before.
 
RedLynx said:
Hopefully my post doesn't sound condescending, it wasn't meant to be at all. I'm very glad that poster and his brother are both safe and sound, and since it was a huge poisonous snake, his quick action likely saved both their lives, I'd imagine. Good on him. Just the way he described that scenario going down could have gone horrifyingly bad in a split second. Glad everyone made it out of that.
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That's the way I took it--good natured.
 
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