The Common-Sense Approach to Choosing the Best Survival Knife

Finding the best survival knife depends on whatcarefully about what you want to use this knife
you want to do with it. Survival knives come infor and where you think you'll be using it. For
many shapes, sizes, and colors. I've seen knivesinstance, if you live in a location with very cold
with bottle openers, hollow handles, saw blades,winters, you don't want to buy a knife with a
pry bars, I've even seen knives with infraredmetal handle as it could stick to the palm of your
resistance. Do you really need all of that in ahand. If you want to be able to use it for fire
survival knife? Probably not. Does that mean youmaking then you need to get one with a hard
shouldn't have it? Well, that depends on whethersteel blade that can be used with a fire starter.
or not your willing to pay for it.You need to use common-sense when you
Using a little common-sense will go a long way inchoose the length of blade as well. A 12 inch blade
helping you pick the best survival knife for youris hard to control, and it makes it difficult to do
application. So, to get started, let's begin withclose work with a large knife. Most experts
price. It has been rumored that one of the hotrecommend the blade be 6 inches or less.
survival reality stars used a survival knife thatMy recommendation is to sit down and make a
was around 700-800 dollars. You certainly don'tlist of the things you want your knife to do. Do
need to pay that much for a survival knife, thatsome research on the different knives and
being said, you get what you pay for. A veryoptions available and think hard about the features
good knife can be had for less than $100, in fact,you'll use, and the ones you won't. Remember, it's
the one I use the most cost $75.easy to go for the flashiest and biggest knife you
Features make things better but you need to pickcan find, but it won't serve you well if it doesn't
and choose the features that work for you. Thinkdo the job.