Originally Posted By: widget
I am suprised at how many seem to be depending on a folding knife as their primary knife for survival.

I have lots of knives, a bunch are folders but I don't consider any of them as a primary survial knife. I consider a folding knife as one that is already broken in the middle, it has a built in critical weakness.

I carry a SAK Farmer as a pocket knife, always but I also have a fixed blade, with a full or nearly full tang with me on all wilderness trips.


I'm with you. In a survival situation if I need to chop or pry, a folder will fail. I realize that there is only a small chance that would ever happen, but that's the case with 90% of the subjects we discuss here. I carry a small folder or Leatherman and a larger full tang knife when I go into the forest.
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