If you were going to pick 1 fixed blade knife...

**Marc** · 08-08-07, 05:01

For me: Chris Reeves aviator and Jeroboam with serrated top.
Marc.
Belgium.

**Evan_O** · 08-10-07, 18:20

The only fixed blade I own is a Strider DB-L.

Great knife and damn strong!

**militarymoron** · 08-11-07, 00:23

out in the woods, camping etc, the MT-MOD10 (one on the right):

anywhere else - DB-GG

**Boris** · 08-11-07, 20:48

It's not the most tacti-cool (and neither am I) but my search for an all-around fixed blade resulted in the SOG Gov-Tac.

http://sogknives.com/store/S21T.html

I shopped for features and cost and this fit the bill. I got it for $84.00 at a gun show and Christened it on my first 9-point buck last December. Yum!!!

-B

**toddackerman** · 08-17-07, 19:13

Mad Dog ATAK for a fixed Blade.

Chris Reeves Sebenza for a folder.

**Impact** · 08-17-07, 19:16

Trident/ crusader forge knives.

**Submariner** · 08-19-07, 04:35

I have used a Strider BT for four years now. Works great.

Of course, my $14 USGI KABAR does, too. For most things.

So does a Strider AR.

If I had to do it all over, I would skip the fixed blade and go with a Strider folder.

**Hawkeye** · 08-19-07, 14:37

I have a little something on the way to check out and evaluate... pics when its here.

**Yojimbo** · 08-21-07, 10:42

I went through this same dilemma a couple of years back. I wanted a very hard use survial/utilty knife that could be used for fighting if needed. I needed it to be able to chop, pry, dig, hammer, etc.. Basically do things other tools would normally do.

After looking at several different knives I settled on a Busse/Swamprat Rat Mastiff. It has a 9", 1/4" thick blade made of SR101 steel which is basically 52100 with the super secret 40 hour Busse heat treat done to it. The handle is made of black/green canvas micarta.

If you know anything about Busse knives you know they make nuclear proof knives tha can take brutal beatings and continue to function.

I remember seeing a vid or pics of a Swamp Rat knife with it's handle shoved into the trailer hitch of a F150 and the truck was jacked up using the knife as the support!

Check them out at http://www.swampratknives.com.

Here's my Rat Mastiff.

A close up of the "Penetrator Tip".

Here's some pics of torture testing.

Here's a cool pic of a Swamp Rat blade with the paint stripped off. You can actually see a Hamon or temper line caused by the heat treat.