Wednesday, September 17, 2008

What is a Survival Knife?

What is a survival knife? I've done some thinking about that and how to better organize this blog. What I've come up with is six types of survival knives:
  1. Bushcraft - This knife is used for wilderness survival tasks like skinning game and light woodcraft. Examples include mora, Bark River, and even class Buck knives.
  2. Chopper - This knife is used for heavy wood work, essentially replacing an axe or machete.
  3. Rescue - This knife is used for very hard use urban rescue tasks. Examples include the Cold Steel SRK and the Gerber LMF II ASEK.
  4. Pocket - This knife is used for every day carry or in small kits but can perform some of the above tasks.
  5. Hollow - This knife has a hollow handle of some sort to carry a survival kit.
  6. Multitool - More than just a knife.

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