Survival Knife

[Rust_shackleford]

If I could only have one, a Gerber LMF. I own a lot of knives and the Gerber LMF is the one I trusted and carried in Iraq.

Leatherman tool and a Wakizashi and you're set.

Those MREs didn't stand a chance

[johngraves2]

I know I said the Gerber LMF II, but today i bought the shorter ka-bar, so i would have to say i would want that along as well.

[hip55]

Looks like Gerber & Bear Grylls have teamed up for a new knif- looks very interesting -

http://bear.gerbergear.com/

[funkfool]

Does Bear cut his finger off with the Ultimate Knife?

[hurley842002]

Not a bad looking setup, and for a mere $59.99 from Amazon, not a bad price either. May be worth picking one up.

[StagLefty]

I just can't see half serrated blades. Waste of blade use. Good maintained sharp plain edge in my opinion is hard to beat.

[Irving]

That Bear Grylls knife looks really awesome with that stuff that he has in there.
I have a question about the sharpened back edge of the knife. I have a knife with a sharpened back edge, and I thought it was very cool. However, upon actually using the knife, it seems like it makes it a little more difficult to handle safely. In addition to that, I can still baton wood with it just fine, but my wooden "hammer" has a lot shorter life because of that sharpened rear edge. What is the specific purpose of that? Is it a combat thing?

EDIT: I also wonder about half serrated blades. The serrated section is so short, that it seems like it'd only be useful for cutting ropes and things of similar size.

[BigBear]

I have a question about the sharpened back edge of the knife. What is the specific purpose of that? Is it a combat thing?

Don't know a specific answer but here are my thoughts:

A back blade that is sharpened creates a cleaner "stabbing" point along with more "styles" (cuts/slashes/etc) to use if you are familiar with knife fighting techniques. However, the sharpened back blade is useless (in my opinion) without the blood lets in the body of the knife.

[StagLefty]

Sharpened back edges are more for a fighting/combat knife. In my uses such as batonning they can be unsafe. Also local knife laws may make them illegal according to the knife forum I frequent. The short section of serrations take away from the usefulness of a full usable knife edge JMHO. This is my latest all around camp knife set up

[hurley842002]

I know of many folks that have zero use for a partial serated blade, and I see where most of them are coming from. Myself however, I really like having the partial seration. There have been times when cutting rope, that I have attempted to cut the rope with the non serated edge, and it literally took a sawing motion several times (probably 5 or more), whereas the same rope with the serated blade, l was able to make one good cut, and was half way through the rope, and another cut and I was all the way through. If there is a possibilty you will be using heavy rope (rock climbing, rappelling etc.), I highly encourage a serated edge.