Ok, dudes...since Enbloc cost me half my weeks pay today so I can go spend a 3 day weekend in November running around in the woods with what will likely be a bunch of fat tacticool guys, I need to pick you creepy knife guys collective brains for some advice on a survival knife.
The course is ‘Basic Survival’ put on by self reliance outfitters.com, but from what I’m reading, there’s nothing basic about it. If I’m going to do this right, I’m expected to follow their gear list as close as possible so I can have the best chance to ‘patch in’ at the close of the class. I could really care less about the patch itself, but knowing that I did something not everyone CAN or would ever even WANT a to do might mean something to me in the long run.
Gear list recommends knife criteria and a few examples (of which they sell, of course) as follows:
1) Cutting Tools:
I know next to nothing about knives except that I have cutting myself and one of my worst irrational fears is getting stabbed (hasn’t happened yet, thankfully) to death or actually more horrifying might be having to live through getting stabbed...that probably leaves a mental scar that one doesn’t simply shake off.
anywho...of the knives listed, do any of you have any preference to brand/model for the intended purpose (think bushcraft), or could you recommend something else perhaps that might fit the need even better?
it’s explained elsewhere on the gear description that the 90deg spine is for the sole purpose of starting fires, so that NEEDS to be a feature if I want to survive/thrive/not freeze my dick off at the end of November.
If you want to recommend a backup with similar features too, that’s perfectly acceptable, but I’ll probably just bring one of my buck knives for that if the spine checks out?
please don’t stab me.
The course is ‘Basic Survival’ put on by self reliance outfitters.com, but from what I’m reading, there’s nothing basic about it. If I’m going to do this right, I’m expected to follow their gear list as close as possible so I can have the best chance to ‘patch in’ at the close of the class. I could really care less about the patch itself, but knowing that I did something not everyone CAN or would ever even WANT a to do might mean something to me in the long run.
Gear list recommends knife criteria and a few examples (of which they sell, of course) as follows:
1) Cutting Tools:
- Knife: Should be non-coated with a 90 degree spine.
- We recommend the Mora Bushcraft Black, Mora Garberg, or PKS Scorpion.
I know next to nothing about knives except that I have cutting myself and one of my worst irrational fears is getting stabbed (hasn’t happened yet, thankfully) to death or actually more horrifying might be having to live through getting stabbed...that probably leaves a mental scar that one doesn’t simply shake off.
anywho...of the knives listed, do any of you have any preference to brand/model for the intended purpose (think bushcraft), or could you recommend something else perhaps that might fit the need even better?
it’s explained elsewhere on the gear description that the 90deg spine is for the sole purpose of starting fires, so that NEEDS to be a feature if I want to survive/thrive/not freeze my dick off at the end of November.
If you want to recommend a backup with similar features too, that’s perfectly acceptable, but I’ll probably just bring one of my buck knives for that if the spine checks out?
please don’t stab me.
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