Your Top 5 production survival knives!

Rat-TAK-1
Swamp Rat Howling Rat
Bark River Fox River
Ranger RD6
Frost Mora 780 triflex
 
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Fällkniven F1 (3G)
Fällkniven S1
Fällkniven TK2
Fällkniven TK6
Fällkniven WM1 (3G)

Bottom
Cheap Mora clone with hollow plastic handle
Lifesaving/survival knife with compass and crap.
 
Becker BK7
Swamp Rat Howling Rat
Bark River Woodland
Bark River Fox River
Mora 780
 
The top 5 production survival/outdoor knives I own:

a BK7, Ontario-RAT TAK or Kabar 1277 next to a Victorinox OHT or Leatherman Wave

....and a Eriksson Mora #2 ;)
 
I find it odd that the Mora is not mentioned more. This blade was WORSHIPPED a few months back on this board - and now it seems the Fallkniven has taken favor. It makes me wonder if, for some, this is fashion over function.

TF
 
I have and can count on...
Wood Jewel Leuku/puukko set
Modified CS Master Hunter in CarbonV
SAK Rucksak
Old CS Recon Scout
F1

Ones I want...
RAT 3
BM 180
IJ 1244
Grohmann Boat w/ flat grind
Wouldn't mind one of the new Spyderco Dayhikers for sh!ts and giggles...
 
Talfuchre said:
I find it odd that the Mora is not mentioned more. This blade was WORSHIPPED a few months back on this board - and now it seems the Fallkniven has taken favor. It makes me wonder if, for some, this is fashion over function.

TF
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OK, I'll add a mora...

:D
 
Talfuchre said:
I find it odd that the Mora is not mentioned more. This blade was WORSHIPPED a few months back on this board - and now it seems the Fallkniven has taken favor. It makes me wonder if, for some, this is fashion over function.

TF
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I'm pretty sure people have been singing praises for the Mora for more than a few months! ;)

I don't want to derail the thread at all, but the Mora is a great knife, and beats many others that are more expensive. Dollar for dollar, it's a huge value. But none of that means that there aren't other good blades, and better blades, at higher price ranges.

'Survival' probably means you've just got the one knife to perform lots of duties that knives weren't meant for. Some folks just don't feel that fuzzy about batoning a stick tang.
 
Out of the Knives i own
Fixed Blades
Kabar ?,the discontinued stainless version of whats now called the Kabar fighter.
Mora 2000
Mora Clipper
Mora Triflex
Original Blackjack Anaconda II

Folders
Vic Swisschamp
Vic Huntsman
Vic Farmer
Vic Compact
Vic Lumberjack
 
A Mora knive is a "survival" knife for mom and dad taking the kids on a day trip by the lake (or on it if winther). They can cut oranges, gut the obligatory 2" fish the ever so proud kid manages to catch, slice some sausage, some fishing line and make some bark tree boats in summer etc. If the knife breaks or the kids gets tired it is an hour back home. The survival in this situation is that the family stays happy all day. The back up for this is most likely a half dull paring knife from the kitchen back home.

A Fällkniven is a "survival" knife for those who jump from a, not that perfect anymore, fighter jet over nowhere and has that only edge tool to take him (or her) back to civilisation. Usually in Sweden that means that the pilot can use it to cut wooden figures or just do nothing while waiting for the CASEVAC. Abroad and during wartime there is a difference though. The survival in this situation is that the persons life can depend on it and that he most likely has no backup.

Not saying that a Mora knife (or clone), that about every person in Sweden has at least five, is a bad knife but it is two different situations. The first can be in the forest close to home and it is 2 km to the nearest house, the second can be in the middle of the winther or somewhere in Bornes jungle and it is 200km to the nearest house.

I could make do with a Mora knife but having used a F1 I would most likely break the Mora in pieces when trying to do F1 things with it.
 
seems to me a pattern has come up....

BK-7
Barkies
rats
Fallkniven
moras


anyone else notice this??

good thing i own more than one of the first three....whew
 
Ranger RD7
Fallkniven S1
Fallkniven F1
Busse Steel Heart
Becker BK7
Busse Active Duty (had to come back and add this one)
 
Pics! Gotta have pics!

Ranger RD9
Bark River Bravo-1
Cold Steel SRK
Spyderco Manix
LM Wave

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Well, every time I see another Becker (I only have a BK7), I fall in love. I'd love to get a Necker and a Companion.

As well as a RAT, Fallkniven, and Ranger. I've given up hope on Busse sadly.
 
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