Thread: why should one own a survival knife?

Anyone else notice that the size of your knife is like a barometer of your experience and knowledge .

Originally Posted by Ground Control

Anyone else notice that the size of your knife is like a barometer of your experience and knowledge .

Someone posts this routinely. One of the oldest members on the old forum replied "I'm too old for little knives"

Its a flat piece of steel with a handle on one end and a sharp edge down one side.

Personally I don't have big knives, but I do have relatively big knives. I gave up on folders completely. I have a short, thick bladed drop point sheath knife.

A survival knife reflects people who are prepared for extreme circumstances where they must pitch themselves against nature in an all out bid to not die. These people will mostly die. If they live it will be because they managed to crawl into the camp of someone enjoying life outdoors in the same circumstances.

I often see the prices people pay for knives and wonder how us butchers ever worked with (no more than) $70 knives for 40-hours a week.......

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

I often see the prices people pay for knives and wonder how us butchers ever worked with (no more than) $70 knives for 40-hours a week.......

What about the bucket of knives worn down to a stump sitting in the corner?

A lot of hunters want an edge that will last 40 hours without seeing a steel. Not saying they get it, but that is what they want.

People who work 40 hours a week on a knife can either sharpen them well or has fucked shoulders right?

"People who work 40 hours a week on a knife can either sharpen them well or has fucked shoulders right?"

Ha ha; usually both!

Originally Posted by Ground Control

Anyone else notice that the size of your knife is like a barometer of your experience and knowledge .

Problem with that is I have only used one knife for hunting and I bought it before I knew anything. I suppose that with experience and knowledge I realise that a Mercator is all I need.