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...

[91Bravo]

I vote for a Leatherman Wave unless you're expecting to have to kill people. Then I don't know.

[ra2bach]

for me it's a system rather than one knife. my EDC is 3.5" folder kept very sharp. I don't use it to open boxes, I use the Leatherman for that.

for outdoors stuff, I prefer a fixed blade for everything and find 4-5" to be the most useful (cutting rope/small sticks, preparing meals, etc.) a knife I really like is the Moraknife, or my favorite - my Blackjack Trailguide.

If carrying a pack, I add a small hatchet (gerber/fiskars) for firewood, trail maintenance, etc... I also carry a small 2-blade Case pocket folder kept scalpel sharp for, you know, scalpel like shit...

If I'm just hiking without a pack, I go up on the fixed blade to like 6-7" and carry my EDC folder and the Case.

[K.L. Davis]

Good stuff so far... but lock onto the "one knife" thing... one knife... only one knife.

We all know that only one knife is not the perfect solution, but there is a method to my madness. Sort of...

[LHS]

In that case, I'd go with the larger of my two knives. You can often do little knife work with a big knife, but the reverse isn't often true.