Field/Survival/Bush/Whatever Knife

[K.L. Davis]

What is your favorite field/bush knife? Call it a survival knife if you want... but regardless of price or availability, with no thought to CDI points, potential product placement royalties in your new TV series, or the unlikely circumstance of hand-to-hand combat with zombies - if you are going off the grid and can only have one knife with you, what is that knife?

Thanks!

[hatidua]

Sturdy large folder for me. -I quit Facebook, no plans of reactivating account.

[LHS]

Also not on the Facebook as of yet, but here goes:

I carry two: a Leatherman Wave, and an old Spec-Plus bolo knife. Between the two, you can do just about anything.

[HES]

Just posted. For me it would be a simple K-BAR.

[Bad Medicine]

Chris Reeves-Green Beret and my Leatherman Wave, I also have a boker fold out that my wife gave me.

[sgtjosh]

Cold Steel Recon Tanto...

[mdauben]

I'd probably go with something like the ESEE 4. Its a quality, well made knife, I find the drop point a great general purpose design and I find 4-5 inches to be about the perfect size for a do-everything outdoors knife.

[Ouroborous]

Frost mora's are cheap durable survival knives I use frequently but the RAT-3 is my personal favorite.

[shua713]

Ka Bar fighting knife

[JohnnyC]

I've always been of the mindset that for the "one knife and one knife only" situation you're better suited to something like a cut-down machete, etc., along those lines. I like to be able to bang a rock down the spine to chop kindling if I have to, even cut down small limbs to fashion a lean-to, etc.

While I appreciate the handiness of a smaller knife for doing more precise work, when I'm up in the mountains there's really not a lot of precision cutting I have to do. Hell, you can even skin out a deer with a larger knife if you have to. It won't be pretty, but you can cut down some wood to cook said deer if you're using a larger knife with some heft and length to it. There's no way I could use my ZT350 in the same way as I can use a 6 dollar machete that's been worked over with an angle grinder and a belt sander. Of course the cut-down machete isn't very sexy.