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Looking for a Good Survival Knife?
I am looking for a good survival knife for under $30. (U.S money) I would like the best one possible for the money. It has to be fixed blade. I am looking at the links below but am open to suggestions.
http://www.amazon.com/Marine-Drop-Point-Survival-Knife/dp/B000UU9J5C/ref=pd_bxgy_sg_img_b
http://www.outdoorpros.com/Prod/Smith-Wesson-CKSUR2-Bullseye-Ext-Ops-Survival-w-Dbl-Blood-Groove-Kydex/9780/Cat/19?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=googlebase&cvsfa=1184&cvsfe=2&cvsfp=9780
http://www.botachtactical.com/glockknives.html
Also if you know of any reliable places to buy the knife I would appreciate it. Thanks.
I am just looking for a reliable knife that can take a good deal of abuse. I don't expect it to ever have to save my life but I don't want to have a crappy (excuse my French) knife if I ever really needed It.
Uh, what are you planning to do -- gut a moose? Sorry, but I've been an outdoors person for over 40 years, worked in the outdoor gear business for a while and also taught backpacking and wilderness skills so I have a good idea of what kind of knife 99.9% of people really need and actually use on camping trips. Why do you "have" to have a fixed blade? The knives you have the links to are too large and awkward to carry, also not of much use for most camp needs. A 6" to 8" blade is useless and unwieldy for most anything you might want to do. You want a knife to be a comfortable extension of your hand that turns within the radius of your wrist without accidently gutting yourself. One of those knives you are looking at is more than 12" long! You can't strap that to your belt all day -- you'll hate it before the first day is over.
For about $30 you can get an excellent Buck brand lock-back folding knife with a partially serrated blade (similar to this Redpoint model: http://www.buckknives.com/index.cfm?event=product.detail&productID=2936--
I have an earlier Buck model like the Redpoint that has served me well for 20 years doing everything from slicing cheese and leather to opening steel cans and skinning cable. You want something that fits in a pocket of your jacket or backpack or that can fit in a small pouch clipped on your waist belt.
I can't tell you how many times my beginner backpacking students showed up on trips with those macho "Mountain Man Toothpick" giant bowie knives like you are looking at and found them totally useless in camp, more often than not hurting themselves trying to use them. You want something that fits closely in your hand and will cut food, whittle wood to make tinder for starting fires or making wooden tent stakes, trimming cord, rope and webbing and opening plastic and foil food packages ---without stabbing yourself. Bigger is NOT better, even (by the way) for self defense. My rule of thumb is that the folded knife should fit easily into the folded palm of your hand, and when open the blade should be no longer than your longest finger. This is a knife you will be able to handle with the most skill for the REAL things you might need to do, even for survival.
Even in (god forbid) hand-to-hand human combat, it's easier for someone to knock a giant bowie knife out of your hand before you could use it on them. You can do more close-quarter damage with a compact blade knife because of the close control you have over it and you are less apt to have it turned back against you.
Find an outdoor outfitter that sells Buck knives -- Buck's reputation and the quality of their steel and mechanisms are outstanding. And they have great warranties and service. Can't go wrong with Buck.
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