What is the best fixed blade survival knife in your opinion?
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June 24th, 2009
| Tags: Benchmade, General Purpose, Tang
Roger M asked:
Regardless of price what is the best fixed blade survival knife for general purpose woodland survival? Kabar, Kershaw, Benchmade, Gerber, Cold Steel, Ontario, Fallkniven, SOG, Busse…etc? What make and model in your opinion? I want a full tang design. Please don’t tell me a Rambo knife with compass and a hollow handle for holding fishing line and hooks. lol.
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Ka Bar would be one good choice. Their fixed-blade knives come with a well-sharpened blade and a useful hammer-pommel. Cold Steel is another good choice. They carry a wide variety of fixed blades, and the company is well known for its quality, they even make DVDs of extreme abuse of their knives to prove this.
There is an endless debate what a survival knife should be, small utility blade or larger one that can take and dish out lots of punishment.
If you go with second definition, then Busse knives are probably on top of the list. Very tough, pretty much indestructible and unusually high wear resistance and edge holding for those types of knives.
I own (and owned) Busses, Cold Steels, Sogs, Benchmades and bunch of other fixed blades. The toughest are Busses for sure.
As for the Cold Steel tests I am very skeptical about those, because they void the warranty if you try to replicate the tests.
My vote for heavy duty blades goes to Busse or if you are on the budget then Swamp Rat knives(SRKW).
Busse reviews -
SRKW review -
If you want something more exotic the kukris are also quite versatile and very tough use knives.
Kukris -
Those are the knives that you can cut, chop and pry with.
For more utility type knives benchmade Nimravus is pretty good and not too expensive.
Fallkniven A1 is also quite tough knife from decent steel VG-10.
Cold Steel SRK was a good knife in older version of Carbon V steel. new ones are not as good unfortunately. Though, nowhere near to Busse or SRKW in heavy duty use.
All of those knives are full tang design.
More fixed blades here -
Well, since that guy before said a whole bunch of stuff, I’m just going to say Ontario rat-7