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Picking A Survival Knife

This week Mike and I tackle picking a survival knife. We focus on how to find the right knife or blade system for your area. Not all systems work well everywhere. Jeff Radtke in Wisconsin has little need of a machete. Just like carrying an axe in Florida isn’t the best.

After location budget is the next big concern in picking a survival knife. You should get the best knife you can afford. It needs to be one of, if not the most, expensive items in your kit. Not saying you can not get by with a $17 Mora. In fact you should definitely own one. If you break on, which is hard to do, you aren’t out much money.

The knife is your main tool and should be high quality. I would not be happy to have my life depend on a cheap knife. You can’t take your money to the grave. I have a few hundred in my knives and they are all quality.

We list off a few recommendations. Knives that I have owned and used. We also talk about some to avoid.

Topics

• Picking a Survival Knife
• Where are you and how are you going to use it
• What is your budget
• Which grind to scandi, hollow, flat
• Custom or production
• Just one or more
• System to pair it with
• Some recommendations
• Mora classic not the rubber handle one
• The buck hoodlum
• Kbar
• Condor bushcrafter
•  Not the habalis trade knife.

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