In a survival situation, given the choice of only one, which ? Fire or knife?

For me, I'll say fire. I may be able to improvise a knife, but at this stage in my outdoor skills, I would be unable to make fire by friction.

Definitely a knife. There are so many ways to start a fire with just a little skill, but I feel naked without a blade.

A knife!
You can make fire from knife and make a fire faster than you can make a 'real' knife...

Knife... you don't always need fire.

Totally depends. If it's 40, bee raining for 5 days and is still raining hard and I'm hypothermic I want a fire and I want it now. In fact, if we're talking short term survival (72 hours or less) I'll take fire most any time. I can certainly do a lot with a knife during that time, but I can stay warm and signal with a fire. In fact, if I'm just sitting still in the woods waiting to be found I can't think of much I NEED a kife for, nothing that would be more likely than hypothermia to kill me anyway.

Knife

Fire for me.

Vince

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FIRE!!

Hot! Fire hot!
No touch fire.
Fire make boom.

TIP! Fire bad.


POINTY STUFF

Pointy stuff make hurt!
Hurt bad things. It is fun.

TIP! Bigger pointy stuff make bigger hurt!

After the great Bic debate I'm buying up hollowhandled survival knives and converting the storage area into a giant Bic. I am also taking an idea from an old WW2 vintage cartoon. My signal panel is being painted in an East Los Angeles bodyshop by a homie who looks remarkably like Cheech. Il'l just deploy it and within minutes screaming air national guard aircraft will be napalming Osama's likeness. One should always 'think outside the box' and I dislike these either or questions. I don't even like the 10 essentials list or the STOP acronym. I carry 24 essentials and my acronym is HAFMYGMI- "heres another fine mess you've got me into."

ROFLMBO!!!

Trust D&D fans to come up with that.

I'm a GURPS and SR prima donna. Glad to know I'm nto the only gamer here.

Oh, yeah, my vote: Knife. Preferably in a sheath that has two pouches on the sheath, one with a leatherman, the other with a cut down magnesium firestarter and a sharpening stick in the other. :P