Yes - a kitten dies every time we start a knife, gun, oil, or tire thread but I'm looking for feedback on this particular knife. Anyone out there own one of these? IMHO a good fixed blade knife will serve you better in "the clinch" than a folder. I have folders and love my folders - I also have a Kabar "Short" for "everyday camping" use but am looking at this Glock 81 knife as my "end all survival" knife. I really like the saw blade.
One of the best real world knives I've ever had. It's a great working knife and a great buy for around $30. Get two...I did -jeff
There is a good thread here on survival knifes. I have been thinking about a fixed. What really sets the fixed knives apart from each other? On price Kabar seems good. For hunting I like my folding Buck 110, because it folds and doesn't bug me when sitting. But folders are harder to clean the blood out of. I just got for Christmas a fixed about 4", which I will probably try this deer season.
It scores 4 on knifetests.com http://www.knifetests.com/KnifeTestsPage2.html which is pretty good. You probably won't use your field knives the way they're used on knifetests but it gives you a sense of what they can stand up to and what they can handle if pressed in a survival situation of some kind.
I've had a couple of them for years. Not a bad knife. As said, edge wears, but is easily sharpened. A good field knife that you don't mind abusing. BTW, a great companion is the Glock e-tool. Been using one of those for years also. My wife uese it all the time in planting, I take it camping and it packs down small enough and is lite enough that I take it with me kayak camping. Tough little shovel.
I have all three: Glock 23, Glock 81, & Glock etool. I traded an old Buck Frontiersman and some cash for my 81 and love 'em all. However, I can't sharpen a knife to save my life so I've been trying to find a good sharpening tool to help me sharp up, but's that's a different issue. I recommend all the Glock products.
the desire for better steel would keep me from carrying one of these -- I'm not a fan of saw/knife combinations, having never seen one that was a good enough saw to bother with . . . . . Glock has better knives in their catalog, IMO
I've never met anyone who used a survival knife to survive. What is the advantage of the blade style?
Looks like a nice knife, not sure it's a do-it-all knife. Course that really depends on your definition of do-it-all and what you want it to do. And at $30-40 delivered not much of a risk Personally, I like a wider blade for general use/chopping and a smaller foldie/fixie for delicate jobs and meal prep. May also add an axe or machete in the mix too. As with everything, use it and see how it works for you. Best,
It looks more like a fighting knife than an all-around, general use outdoor knife. But since it is cool and not too expensive, get one of those plus a Mora or two.
Me neither. I have, however, met a metric shitload of people who have carried them completely unnecessarily. The same people usually aren't carrying any tools for their bike (or at least, not enough to do much more than take the battery cover off), even though their bike breaking down somewhere remote is vastly more likely to occur and pose a danger to them than the zombie apocalypse or them suddenly finding themselves parachuted behind enemy lines in 'Nam with nothing else with them other than this knife. I've also known people who've had knives like this taken off them at customs in ferry ports. In contrast, I've never known people to have Leathermans/similar taken off them, because it's usually clear to the officials that it's intended to be used as a tool as opposed to a weapon. In fact, only last week I was in a ferry terminal terminal using a Leatherman (with the knife blade out as it happened) to fix my bike, which happened to be in plain view of three of the staff: No problems whatsoever. Try waving a 12" survival knife around instead and see how the response differs. It's main advantage is that it allows you to fantasise that you're Rambo. If you don't like admitting that, you can justify it by claiming that fixed blade knives are much stronger. Just remember to ignore the fact that even if one blade broke on something like a Wave (which is in itself extremely unlikely, unless you're misusing it), you'd have 2 more, plus a whole host of other tools. It's weird, you get the same fetishism with kitchen knives too. I know people who have designer knife blocks costing £200+ with a dozen different blades for every conceivable different purpose, yet the best (professional) chef I know swears by one £9 knife for everything other than things that require a breadknife. Just sayin'. ---- @Poacher Bob. LOL, yes selling that sort of thing to raise a defence fund is going to help improve the perception of them within the legal system. Coming soon; 81 handcuff keys, 81 clean urine samples, 81 "Cop Killer" Temporary Tattoo set.
My survival knife is the one in my pocket at the time. I do admit to some guilt on the kitchen knife part, I dont have a bunch of high end but I did buy this one as a "camp" knife because I liked it's look. Bought for the camper but it's worked so well it moved to the kitchen and the camper has a no name chefs knife now.