| Finding the best survival knife depends on what | | | | carefully about what you want to use this knife |
| you want to do with it. Survival knives come in | | | | for and where you think you'll be using it. For |
| many shapes, sizes, and colors. I've seen knives | | | | instance, 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 infrared | | | | metal handle as it could stick to the palm of your |
| resistance. Do you really need all of that in a | | | | hand. If you want to be able to use it for fire |
| survival knife? Probably not. Does that mean you | | | | making then you need to get one with a hard |
| shouldn't have it? Well, that depends on whether | | | | steel 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 in | | | | choose the length of blade as well. A 12 inch blade |
| helping you pick the best survival knife for your | | | | is hard to control, and it makes it difficult to do |
| application. So, to get started, let's begin with | | | | close work with a large knife. Most experts |
| price. It has been rumored that one of the hot | | | | recommend the blade be 6 inches or less. |
| survival reality stars used a survival knife that | | | | My recommendation is to sit down and make a |
| was around 700-800 dollars. You certainly don't | | | | list of the things you want your knife to do. Do |
| need to pay that much for a survival knife, that | | | | some research on the different knives and |
| being said, you get what you pay for. A very | | | | options 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 pick | | | | can find, but it won't serve you well if it doesn't |
| and choose the features that work for you. Think | | | | do the job. |