What is the best fixed blade survival knife in your opinion?
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.
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 - http://zknives.com/knives/fixed/busse/index.shtml
SRKW review - http://zknives.com/knives/fixed/srkw/index.shtml
If you want something more exotic the kukris are also quite versatile and very tough use knives.
Kukris - http://zknives.com/knives/fixed/himp/index.shtml
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 - http://zknives.com/knives/fixed/index.shtml
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