Personally, I have to say that I regard hammering nails in with the pommel as 'knife abuse' and potentially dangerous. But then I wouldn't attempt to batten with the heel of my hand, either.
I abuse it so that you don’t have too
, you can be confident that someone has abused it on your behalf, and found it to performed flawlessly beyond that which you are ever likely to personally require.
Also bear in mind that his is designed to be a survival knife, with slightly different design requirements to a Bushcraft knife, I would not personally recommend that someone go to the expense of this knife for basic bushcraft and neither does Mors a Mora or Finnish Puukko is all you really need for bushcraft practice as an outdoor recreation.
This however is a survival knife, as defined by a man who uses his knife to put in small nails (not normally 3" nails, that was just me) when his axe is not available and routinely batons his knife with the heel of his hand, but then Mors has hands like leather fencing gloves.
Many people might consider the following 'Knife abuse'
As a test of strength, a good knife should not break when driven four centimetres into a standing tree at right-angles to the grain, and the handle bears your weight as you stand on it.
But Mors feels it is a requirement for a survival knife, as I understand does the Swedish military, it’s statutory for their survival knives.
What might be considered ‘knife abuse’ in a bushcraft setting might be an absolute requirement in a situation where your life is at risk. If for example you are stranded in an boreal forest in winter without the benefit of an axe, you will need to be able to drive your knife point first into a tree with a baton repeatedly around its circumference to fell trees that will be required as fuel to keep you alive during the night.
I agree. It begs the question....how many people go off into the woods with 6" nails in their rucksack?
6" Nails
where did you read 6" nails Falcon? Do the nails in the picture look 6" long to you? The largest nail I used was less than half that size. As for who carries nails, well me obviously, when I am building a permanent base camp in the jungle that I want to be still standing when I return in a year (cordage wont last that long). And people like Mors Kochaski, Lars falt, horace kephart and Ray mears who have all been known to carry a few small nails and reuse them again and again.