There’s a lot of crossover between survival and bushcraft, so when we say that we spent most of our time thinking about bushcraft activities like hiking, camping, starting fires, and building shelters, that generally includes survival knives.
We go out into the woods and mountains as much as we can get away with. When we review a knife, it’s been dragged through a few miles of wood and dirt, started (or failed to start) at least one fire, and been generally abused until we’re satisfied that it’s worth praising or complaining about for a couple thousand words.
The Tactical Outdoor Knife that’s Mostly Tactical if We’re Being Honest I’m always uneasy about reviewing knives that look like this: which is to say, like something you’d see in a Call of Duty game. I can never get past that fear of reading a headline about someone who accidentally fell on their new Buck …
Gift Ideas For Knife Lovers. We Tested a Variety of Survival, Tactical, Kitchen And EDC Pocket Knives To Make This 2022 Gift List. There are so many choices these days when it comes to choosing the perfect knife to give as a birthday or holiday gift. We understand that it can be overwhelming, so each …
A Pretty Knife that is Tough Enough for the Wilderness The Forseti Steel Ironside Tracker is a good looking knife, but it doesn’t let its looks define it. This knife can take the type of beating survival knives should all be made to endure. That is not to say that I didn’t find some issues …
The SBK Is a Good Knife With A Great Sheath The Condor SBK has been on my “most wanted” list for over a year. I put off the purchase, because I thought the blade was a bit on the thin side for a survival knife, and I kept forgetting about it due to the fact …
The Okayest Customizable Camping and Survival Knife Time has been kind to the ESEE 4. That has a lot to do with ESEE’s move to make their knives easy to modify, and offer a dozen different handle, blade, and sheath options for all their designs. The ability to customize an ESEE 4 pushes it from …
This Versatile Bushcraft Knife Solidifies Gerber’s Dominance in Sheath Designs The Principle checks a lot of boxes for being a good bushcraft knife: It has a scandi grind, a tough steel with good corrosion resistance, a simple handle made out of a tough, grippy material, and a sheath made to carry a hundred different ways. …
This Bushcraft Chef Knife Hybrid May Be The Ultimate Option For Survival Food Prep Or Just A Really Practical Camping Knife The Bush Slicer is a fixed blade Swiss Army knife. It is tough versatile and fun. Initially I despised the blade notch, and I would still probably prefer a version without it. But it …
The Buck Compadre Is Equal Parts Bushcraft, Survival, and Hunting Knife. The Buck Compadre very much the kind of knife that we all love around here. Almost every element of it is exactly the kind of thing we hope to see and feel in a camping knife: It’s the kind of knife that, at first, …
A Fun and Capable Bushcraft Camp Style Knife That Proves Off Grid Did Their Research Before Jumping Into The Fixed Blade World Off-Grid Knives is a relatively new company that I have absolutely been ignoring. Every once in a while in a moment of weakness I have looked over their catalog of folding knives with …
This is the Budget Survival Alternative to the Esee 3 Anyone who’s ever drooled over an ESEE knife only to have their heart broken by the three-digit price tag might appreciate the Rat III for what it is: the cheaper, identical cousin of the ESEE 3 design. From afar they appear to be the same, …
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