| Knives embrace a unique appeal for many. The | | | | environments for ease of care, although a |
| knife is considered one of the most significant | | | | stainless blade can be somewhat harder to |
| tools to have with you for many tasks either on | | | | sharpen. |
| the job or outdoors use. If you are in the need | | | | Being you could expect a knife used for survival |
| for a knife for outdoors use, such as for fire | | | | or general outdoor use to be employed for a |
| building, shelter building, hunting and prying you | | | | great variety of tasks to include being used to |
| need a knife that holds it's edge well, is easy to | | | | spit wood by batoning it, you should have a knife |
| sharpen and can endure the elements. And most | | | | with a full tang. Although the Mora knives have a |
| significantly can withstand any hard use it will get, | | | | partial tang and are very durable and respected |
| as a camp or survival knife you can't afford any | | | | for their outdoors use, they are not designed for |
| failures. | | | | really hard use. |
| As far as blade steel is concerned, many have a | | | | You should have a blade length of at least a |
| preference for high carbon steel because it can | | | | minimum of four inches, but if you have a blade |
| be easier to sharpen. But high carbon steels | | | | that gets too long, you will be dealing with |
| downside is it can start to rust in high moisture | | | | carrying extra weight. There are some folding |
| environments so therefore requires more | | | | knives that can be great as a backup survival |
| maintenance. For this reason many prefer a | | | | knife but don't expect them to take a lot of |
| stainless Steel blades if working in wet and salty | | | | abuse. |