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    Choosing a "survival" knife

    right, after careful deliberation, and guidance from all you experienced guys on here, i think i am finally down to 3 options: http://www.heinnie.com/3bdct5391670/Knives/Ka-Bar/KA-BAR-Mule/p-92-155-1190/... http://www.heinnie.com/3bdct5391670/Knives/EKA/EKA-Swede-82-Wood/p-92-134-911/...
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    Choosing a "survival" knife

    wow, thats a really good guide, as someone who appears to have very good experience with folders, are there any you would recommend specifically to me? as i said earlier, i'm quite new to the whole "proper" knives thing so don't know much about steel and grinds etc. However i am striving to...
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    Choosing a "survival" knife

    hiya guys, thank you for all the ideas, they all seem really good, and robin wood, you're not far off about having too much to chose from :D . Whilst surfing around the various websites you pointed me towards, i have as usual got sidetraked, and discovered these...
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    Choosing a "survival" knife

    i thought about a fixed blade, but on the expeditions i tend to spend a lot of time scrambling up the side of mountains, up snowdon etc. aswell as some mountains i'm meant to be heading up at some point in slovakia so i think the compactness of a locking folder will be better for me. And i'm...
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    Choosing a "survival" knife

    So i've been doing various bits of survival training for about the past 2 - 3 years, and have even been assistant staff on a couple of recent intro courses, and rather impressively i feel, i have managed these past few years with only a victorinox (sp?) swiss army knife, whilst it was fine at...