Your real survival knife

[pitdog]

If a situation arises, then the survival knife I'll have will be the knife I have on me at the time. Since I carry the same set every single day from the time I get up until I go to bed, I always know exactly what it will be.

R.A.T. Cutlery RC-4
Leatherman Charge TTi with firesteel and mini maglite
R.A.T. Cutlery Izula Prototype Neck Knife.

If you ever see me outside my home, you are garanteed that I have, at least, these 3 things on me. It's better to carry your "survival" setup 24/7 then to hope that you have it with you on the day you need it.

EXACTLY !!!!!

And that sounds a great set up that you have bro !!!:thumbup:

 

[Fletcher Knives]

EXACTLY !!!!!

And that sounds a great set up that you have bro !!!:thumbup:

Thanks Pit.

 

[Coldwood]

Mora Clipper or ColdSteel Master Hunter. Of course my daily EDC is a SAK Tinker or old scout pattern folder. One project I want to try soon is to buy a Russell butcher knife, regrind it into the size and shape I want, stick it into a commercial leather sheath, and see how I like it. Keep the wooden handles, keep it all basic.

 

[dipbait]

If a situation arises, then the survival knife I'll have will be the knife I have on me at the time. Since I carry the same set every single day from the time I get up until I go to bed, I always know exactly what it will be.

Thats the original intent of the post. If youre picking daises with your sweetie, most people wont have a twelve inch hunk of steel strapped to your leg.

 

[Fletcher Knives]

It's funny. My wife used to make fun of me for carrying this stuff every single day. Truth be told, I haven't been doing it THAT long. I used to just carry at least a FB, one folder and that was it. I usually also had with me a small tool kit and some basic stuff, more geared toward motorcycle repair, when I was riding a motorcycle every day. No multitool. I started carrying the full setup (with slightly different knives and multitool) about a year and a half ago. After going through a few sets, this is the best I've found for me. I'm sure it will change again eventually. This whole "being prepared" thing seems to be a never ending learning and evolving process. Anyways, she used to make fun of me everytime she saw me sliding my knife sheath and multitool pouch onto my belt when I first got dressed in the morning. After the first few times of the setup making her life a whole lot easier (fixing her car antenna, repairing a short in her dash wiring, etc. There have been a million), now she is nagging me for her own setup. She wants a production Izula in black, her own expensive as hell multitool, and an RC-3. Her requests were for different things before I got my RAT stuff, but now, after handling mine (hehe), that's what she wants.

Most people think that all of that is too much to carry every day and they think it will just weigh them down and not be usefull. I recomend that everyone who can, try carrying a good multitool, small necker or folder, and a good medium/small FB for two weeks. Even if in that two weeks you don't end up using every one of those tools for something, you'll find out that carrying them everyday is no big deal at all. You forget they're there.

One time that is a perfect example of how handy they are to carry is a night when my wife and I were coming back to Alpharetta from Dawsonville.

A guy I work with told me that this shop up there had the best Ford mechanic (that was honest) he'd ever seen. I needed some work done on my cobra so I decided to take it up there. It's further than I want to go, about 35-45 miles, but its hard to find someone these days that is a good mechanic and honest. Usually you only get one or the other. Well we took it up there right before it started getting dark. Storm clouds were rolling in pretty steady and I knew we were in for some rain.

We weren't on our way back very long when the force of the storm really hit us. It was so bad that the car was being blown up on two wheels repeatedly. I immediately pulled into a shopping center and we ran inside a TGI Fridays (its an eatery in the states for those abroad). The second we got through the doors, we could see power stuff on poles exploding, debris taking off, etc. Everyone inside was really freaked out.

There was only one child in the building and she was freaking out pretty good. I asked her mom if she was hurt or anything and she said, "no. She's just really scared of the dark and the storm is just making it worse." I took the mini-maglite out of my Leatherman pouch and turned it on. I showed it to the little girl, she couldn't have been more than 4 or 5, and said, "listen, I'm going to go and see if the storm is going away. Will you hang onto my flashlight so everyone can see? You gotta hang onto it though. Don't let anyone else have it. If they need the light on something, you point the light at it, but hang onto it." She said "ok." It wasn't long before she was plenty busy with everyone in the trying to find things in the purse, read menus, etc. The little girl was having a ball being the leader.

There was a ladie I had seen go outside and then come back in several minutes later soaked to the bone. The storm was still going pretty hard, but it didn't look like it was going to let up anytime soon and she said that she had to leave because her kids were home alone. Unfortunately she had locked her keys in her car when she had come in the first time. I asked the ladie if she had power door locks. She said she did. I asked one of the servers if they had a wire coat hanger. She went and grabbed me one from the managers office. I told the ladie to point to her car. She showed me which on it was. I went ahead and unfolded the hanger inside, then ran out to her car and looked through the glass to see where the lock button was. Then, I took out the Leatherman and cut the hanger to length, got it in the window, and pressed the unlock button. I got in her car and pulled it up to the front door for her.

After that, everything else was just a waiting game. My wife and I were joking around about what kind of car we were going to get with the insurance money if this one got blown away, servers were trying to get at least some kind of food out to people, the little girl was spotlighting everything in sight, everyone was just sitting around chit chatting. Then, the lights all came back on, the storm started letting up and everything was normal again.

On the way home, the wife and I were talking about how handy that little setuphad been. It was only two simple tasks, but there could have been a lot more. It was nice to know it was there. Definitely worth carrying every day just in case. That was one of a few cases that had the wife asking for her own set pretty hard. The only problem is that I can't get her to pick out what multitool she wants or make her mind up which RC-3 she wants, and of course the Izula isn't available yet so she has to wait on that.


Well!!! This was a long enough post, yeah! hahahaha

 

[Fletcher Knives]

If a situation arises, then the survival knife I'll have will be the knife I have on me at the time. Since I carry the same set every single day from the time I get up until I go to bed, I always know exactly what it will be.

Thats the original intent of the post. If youre picking out daises with your sweetie, most people wont have a twelve inch hunk of steel trapped to your leg.

Maybe YOU don't. Everyone else on the forums do. I have one strapped to each leg. In fact, I use them as stilts so I don't get dirty. You just don't know what's cool these days.

 

[misanthropist]

That's a great post...now that's a realistic survival situation that any of us might encounter.

Your EDC gear is DEFINITELY the most important gear you own...chances are it's all you're going to have!

 

[udtjim]

You can bet it would be a SAK like the Farmer or the Outrider.

 

[Qrt]

spyderco ladybug

no really, it's the knife that's always on my keychain and so most likely to become a survival knife

second most likely would be my edc knife, caly3, para or millie

if I have my backpack with me, my leatherman charge will be first pick

and when I'm near my car it'll be my spyderco assist

I only have my big survival knives with me when I actually plan to go outdoors

 

[bell]

Nimravus
Perrin Streetbeat

 

[BIG-TARGET NJ]

Either my LM Surge or CX

The CX is the EDC, the Surge is the one used to "hack the airfield out of the jungle".

 

[dougo83]

For survival, I carry the Ka-Bar USMC (I think) that I posted elsewhere to get restored. If not that, My Schrade Beast goes with me.

 

[Foilist]

If I am intentionally off in the woods, I'd be likely to have my Bark River Northstar and either a SAK or multitool.

The rest of the time, I'd be relying on just the SAK or multi.

 

[stitch_paradox]

I live in a city so carrying a fixed blade as and EDC is not an option.

My EDC knives consists of:

Either a SAK Fieldmaster or Leatherman Surge for multi tool.

Rotation between Benchmade Vex, Buck 110, Spyderco Native, or Camillus Heat for folders.

and
I always carry either a Boker Wharcom or Subclaw. I just love this tiny knives, I can almost carry it anywhere, specially to places where my Multi tool and folders are not allowed.

 

[Mtn Hawk]

To me a survival situation "in the wilderness" is unexpected.

I don't think anyone should go into the wilderness who is not prepared for a survival situation. People usually don't prepare for something they don't expect.

If I'm in a forest/mountain wilderness emergency or survival situation I might be injured and/or hypothermic, or need to care for someone who is. I might need to quickly chop wood for a shelter and fire because my life, or someone else's, might depend on providing warmth ASAP. Saving time also saves body energy and minimizes heat loss in a cold and/or wet environment. In a situation like this, the difference between my Swamp Rat Battle Rat and a smaller, lighter knife just might be the difference between life and death.

I'd definitely rather carry a smaller, lighter knife but it's not worth it to me to compromise on a potential life-saving tool just to save a few inches and ounces.

 

[Morablades]

Case Wharncliffe Trapper and a Leatherman Supertool on my belt everyday.

 

[Brian Jones]

Dylside,

Awesome post.

Me? Bark River Fox River for all-around, with a SAK Rucksack riding shotgun.

 

[mr2blue]

I carry a knife a knife I bought from Andy Sharpe in the makers section. M3 inspired fighter.

I also carry a neck knife I got from Coombs knife and a ZT301. A little redundant but how I am.

(picture is property of A. Sharpe)

 

[tonym]

I always have my a SAK on my person, I never really carried FB unless I was fishing, hiking, etc. Lately after aquiring a few smaller FB's I due tend to tote one around. I rotate between my Stomper EDC, Gossman PSK jr and even my Gossman WTK. I just recently aquired a Fiddleback EDC from a fellow forumite which I am quickly gowing fond of!

When in the woods, I will be alternating a bunch of different knives as I have recieved too many in a short period of time.

 

[Fonly]

Nimravus
Perrin Streetbeat

haha, finally not the only one with a Nimravus, though I think stretch has one aswell.