Come look around our tactical knife reviews and guides for a sturdy utility blade to carry for emergencies, or a quick-access neck knife for protection. It’s rough when any knife fails on you, but it’s a lot worse when they fail in life or death situations. We do our best to test and review tactical knives for their ability to be deployed quickly, cut reliably, and stand up to the rigors of an emergency.
Many of our writers have backgrounds in law enforcement, military, and martial arts, and are well acquainted with what elements of a knife make it vital in critical situations. We also really like playing with knives and have developed a sense of what makes knives dangerous over many years of stupid mistakes made during hazy dares and overconfident demonstrations. So we like to think we have the full spectrum of expertise in this area.
Good Looking, Tough And Easy To Carry. The lionSteel T5 is The Knife We All Aspire To Be The lionSteel T5 is a good looking knife. It is also relatively expensive. This is a combination that often gets me in trouble when writing a review. It is just too easy to make excuses for a …
The Scariest Legal Carry Utility Knife You Can Own Off Grid describes the Black Mamba as a “compact tactical knife” which are the kind of words that always set off red flags for me. After using it, though, that really feels like an apt description. This knife is such a brutal combination of heavy duty …
This Beefy Tactical Hunting Hybrid Knife is a Fun Work Horse, but It’s Tough to Find If You Drop It At Night. The Backcountry is refreshing as a modern design that is clearly meant for gritty uses. I recently watched a flashy video promo for a popular knife company. It was part lifestyle, part knife …
A Capable Survival Tactical Hybrid That Makes A Great Camping or Backpacking Companion There are few combinations that have been as successful as Ka-Bar and Ethan Becker. You could make a strong case for peanut butter and jelly, or penicillin and prostitution, but the Becker Ka-Bar collaboration has arguably had a bigger impact in the …
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 …
We Tested a Whole Bunch of Survival, Tactical, Kitchen And Pocket Knives To Make This 2021 Gift List. There are so many choices these days when it comes to choosing the perfect knife to give as birthday or holiday gift this year. We understand that it can be overwhelming, so the writers here at Nothing …
A Tough, Versatile Hard Use Flipper That Looks Kinda Weird, But Slices Like A Dream I always act like a kid at Christmas when a new flipper arrives in the mail. I open the package quickly using the last folding knife I ordered and immediately begin flipping the new knife open and then closing it …
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 …
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