Survival Knife - A Skill Every Survivalist Needs to Know for Survival and Bushcraft! 

Thicker is better.

I always have my small knife on me.

Well said

Right front pocket. 3 blade folding knife (clip, spey, sheepsfoot). Right side of my waist belt (equipment NOT to hold my pants up) is my EDC belt knife. 3/16" thick blade Scandinavian Style bevel. Takes and holds an incredible edge. It's my go to knife for everything except intricate carving. Left sise is my large woodsmans knife. I have 2 of them. One is an 8" Buck the other is a homemade (AUS8) modified Bowie style. Very hard to sharpen and really hard to dull. I sometimes use a knife to baton wood but if I'm going in the woods my small forest axe Always goes with me.

Isn’t that the truth! Great comment!

That's what i carry.

Smaller knives are better for for processing games, specially if you intend to tan the hide,, small is better to notch stix for snares, easier to sharpen stix for ground bow traps too. Definately better for debarking small limbs if your using the inner bark for meds or food purposes. Using a rambo knife for any of these purposes is to me like using a sword. .theyre good for spliiting small logs for firewood, notching bigger limbs to use for shelter tho. In survivalism, theres a use for everything n anything.

One is none for sure. If you have two,the fear of breaking a blade is almost a nonfactor.

I live on the edge of the Ozarks. What time of year?

I don't recall ever hearing that one before, but I think I have lived by that rule most of my life anyway. I'm a bushcrafting hiker. My pack eliminates the option of any belt kits, sheaths, etc., but I carry a hefty waist pack in front. This has my ax, saw, cordage, 1staid and a dozen+ other items. In my pockets are a light small fixed blade which I mostly use on food, a campers pocket knife/spoon/fork/opener with a G.I. can opener attached by cordage, a micro razor knife with a windproof lighter and single AAA flashlight both attached by cordage. I use the pocket items daily and could use them on wood projects in a pinch or for fine work, but I still love my ax and saw. All items are pretty economical too, except the windproof lighter. Skill indeed is better than high priced items for show that aren't really used.

I didn't hear any advantages to having a small knife

@@RomeroFamilyFunChallenge Maybe another way to put it is this: The very small advantages of a large knife over a small knife don't outweigh the disadvantages of carrying an unnecessarily heavy and cumbersome large knife. People with extensive field experience very commonly agree on the downside of big Rambo type knives. It is however noteable that serious bushcrafters typically have other tools, folding saw and often an ax. These are so vastly superior to a heavy knife at what they do that there's no contest. There's also a common false or misapplied idea that a person has to get by with only one tool that does it all. That's so much Hollywood or marketing bullshit, but in real life if a person does find himself in a tight spot stripped down of bigger tools it nearly always comes down to what's in his pockets all the time. The big Rambo knife doesn't fit there. Ironically, the movie, Rambo gives away one of the big clues: It attracts unwelcome attention if that's all you got. Are there exceptions? Sure. A machete might be the choice item in a swampy jungle location, or a more specialized knife for field dressing large game if that is the prime purpose of an outing, just to name a couple of possibilities.

A very good point and I really concur with you!

You need to go and watch Mors Kochanski, Karamat wilderness ways, The man that named it Bushcraft, the man that started the Neck knife, the Super shelter, the man that would take 17 students out into Northern Alberta at minus 40 for 48 hours and keep them alive, 30 years ago the Master!

Hard to disagree with that.

How small is small? (The knife in the video looked to be 4 - 5 inches.)

You can do it with a folding knife as well but using a small knife alone is time consuming making wedges and batons .So one tool it should be a big knife 😃 they can do big and small work this is why countries that live from the forests usually carry machetes it builds shelter,fire,signaling,procured and dispatches food.

@@treerat6959 you are missing the point but it doesn’t matter.

@@bowdrillaz I get the point you don't need a bid knife or ax

@@treerat6959 He's not missing the point! If you look at the thumb nail it says "smaller is better". He also states that small knives are more efficient... neither of which is true!

i agree...a sm. axe all u need

Yes loves this channel! This dude is the real deal

I carry both, small one on person, big one on the belt with the hatchet. A little heavier, but since I camp a lot with people who have only the basics I can hand the big one out so they can help me with heavy duty stuff.

Yes, video was kinda incomplete although many of us get the point I think. For me a small ax is vastly superior to a big knife for ax work and actually weighs about the same. Meanwhile, a big knife is rarely superior to a small knife for knife work. If you travel as a hiker like I do, then it sucks to carry a big knife for knife work, but smaller ones fit inside my pockets. Well my small fixed blade sticks out a little depending on which pair of pants I have on.

@@Peagaporto Very tolerant man. There's a time and place for everything I reckon. The knapsackers marathoners who go out unprepared still need to be advised that they aren't entitled to stuff they are unwilling to carry. I'll make a few exceptions for some of the ladies bc I'm a gentleman and unapologetically sexist. Getting out in the woods may be a domain where men dominate, but I like seeing ladies out there as well. Your friends better appreciate you.

You can't baton with a Swiss Army knife or similar folder. I would carry my Swiss and something larger.

What can a large knife do that a smaller knife can’t except botón? And imo get a hatchet for splitting wood.

Yeah, but if he did that on this channel, Felix would build one with his SAK!. Excellent video buddy!

yes, but he also carried a saw and a camp ax.

@@hammerhound168 yes, that's definitely the optimal setup (the axe is often not needed), but as I'm sure you know, his books and videos illustrate exactly this technique for splitting logs. His knife of choice was, if anything, more lightly built than the one shown here.

The jungle natives use a machete almost exclusively that involves preparing vegetables and meats , trap building as well as shelter.

agree they are more handleling than big knife´s imo

If you do not carry a Silky folding saw you do yourself a disservice

I believe the context was not having ideal tools and only having a small knife to survive

It is very hard to find a sawed off log like that one when hiking in the woods! That's where a saw or axe comes in.

Those filling witches are also great for breaking into a car holding the door open because of those notches you talk about which keeps it from shooting out out and allows you to get an unlocking tool in.

Thank you! That means a lot and I appreciate the positive feedback!

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