[okami515]

randall # 14 or possibly a #18 the 14 is a full tang fixed thats 1/4" thick great workhorse type knife.

[mos19k]

I'd have to go with my Kukri, great for chopping and a proven combat knife. I've even used mine to dig with (not something I recommend but it handled it) it's simply a strong all around good blade.

[ArkansasHunter]

When my son was a teenager he collected all the different kinds of the U.S. military knives and bayonets, so chooseing a knife wouldn't be a problem.
30 years ago I bought a Buck General which is a very big knife and would probly have used it until I read one of the post here about useing a knife
to use as a spear. The Buck General has a curved tip so I would probly have to get one out of my sons collection.

[lifesgood]

I never carry just one knife. My favorite is a Spyderco Military folder, with the CPM440V blade.

[ganzer]

I carried and used a kabar for several years in bush alaska. tough and versatile, a very very useful all purpose tool.

As for the knife i used the most? A basic swiss army knife.

[ballistic_trep]

My Aitor. I've worn it in the bush for twenty years...and it's always kept handy.

[ArkansasHunter]

ballistic trep My son has the same knife , but it has Gator on it.

[29er savoy]

a malayan parang according to my sas survival guide

[David]

I just ordered a hissatsu knife from the sportsmans guide, have any of you ever heard of or used one?

[bravo30]

steyr aug bayonet .... wire cutter , screwdriver tip ... nice blade
http://steyr-aug.com/Abayonet.jpg

[bravo30]

steyr aug bayonet .... wire cutter , screw driver tip and its rugged and looks cool

[Triggerjerk]

My hobby is to take flea market blades and re-handle them. Then I make new sheaths. If I needed a wilderness knife it would be my re-worked puuko or my Case 7" butcher with the maple handles that I made from floor board. Both are proven wilderness knives, from the woods of Scandanavia to the plains and mountains of America.

[bravo30]

sorry double posted

[RockB]

Quote:       Originally Posted by ash

Ka-bar wart hog.

Just got mine today.

[Cyrano]

I always liked the idea of Jimmy Lile's Rambo I survival knife. What I didn't like about it was the size of the thing (you could skin a dinosaur with it!) and the cost for a real Lile Rambo I, which is more than I can afford. (No point discussing the ChiCom-made dreck that uses a similar pattern.)

Then I remembered an article I read 30 years or more ago in an outdoor magazine on someone turning a Swedish Mauser bayonet into a survival knife, years before the movie First Blood was made. I reasoned that the steel in an antique Swedish bayonet had to be superior to the stainless steel junk coming out of China, so I set out to find one to modify. (At the same time I cursed my stupidity in not picking up a couple of them back in the '70s when the surplus stores in the Norfolk, VA area were practically giving them away.) Eventually I landed one with mismatched blade and sheath serial numbers on eBay. I had no qualms about altering it because it had zero collector value. Next thing was to buy a frog for it, also on eBay. Finally, I obtained the metal keeper clip from gunbroker.com. I had all the parts for the knife itself. Next step: to find a machinist who could modify the grip for me.

The Model 1896 bayonet is hollow, which is why I wanted it. The article I'd read all those years ago said that you had to thread the top of the grip to accept a 3/4" bolt that was cut way down so it will close with two full revolutions of the bolt. Eventually I found a machinist who was willing to take on the job. $30, one O-ring and a week later I had a knife with a watertight handle. As a byproduct, the machinist had to remove the stud that locks into the bayonet lug on the rifle, which left me with a convenient hole into which to put a split ring so I could attach a lanyard to the knife.

The handle contains half a dozen small fish hooks, half a dozen split shot in a piece of plastic straw, two quilting needles and two glover's needles in a second hunk of plastic straw, 50 yards of monofilament nylon thread, 50 yards of 6 pound test fishline, a piece of diamond sharpening rod and a cut down magnesium and flint firestarter. The 3/4" bolt head makes a good impact surface. Not a bad basic survival kit in a knife, I think.

The one thing I wish it had is a compass. However, I've seen the little compasses the Chinese put in their Rambo-style knives and I'm not impressed with their accuracy. As my grab & go kit has two military compasses in it, I don't think it's that big a deal not to have one in the knife as well. Also, it requires patience and attention to sharpen the blade with the diamond rod; but I figure in a survival situation it will keep my mind busy, which isn't at all bad.

It may not be the prettiest thing you have ever seen, but it balances well, could be turned into a spear easily, and has enough in the way of survival equipment inside it that a good outdoorsman could manage to survive easily with it. It fits my idea of what a survival knife should be. As survival is an art and not a science, that's what matters in the end.

[Dallas]

Can you attach a photo of your knife?

[damage855]

close choice between a Kbar or a good quality swiss army type knife.

[Windwalker]

I like the look of the Cold Steel G I Tanto. I am ordering one.

[Beans]

Ka-Bar

Many knives do somethings better, but the Ka-Bar does all things "good enought"

Semper Fi

[teenagegunwacho]

Quote:       Originally Posted by pecka

Its a toss up. Either the knife Rambo had or the one Crocodile Dundee had.

what kind of knife did Mick Dundee have
like what name brand/type of steel/etc