What is your go to camp knife?

[TJ Kackowski]

If you want your kids to have their own camp knife, take a look at the Mora Eldris.

This little blade is awesome for creating tinder for a fire and then sparking a ferro rod. It also works wonderfully for other small camp tasks and coarse whittling/wood working. It's on the small side for food prep, but gets the job done.

 

[johntheplinker]

I say a Mora along with a hatchet. Beating on a knife just goes against my soul, if you absolutely have to that's one thing but when better tools are available, use them! Moras are cheap enough to have spares, sharpen easily, and will do just about any normal knife task without any problem.

 

[ISP 5353]

Fallkniven F1

 

[w_ADAM_d88]

ESEE Junglas has been my camping, kindling getting, wood spliting knife for 5+ years. Great tool and used as such! Today I get to finally test out their warranty department. Took a swing at a piece of wood, blade stuck, handle kept moving...

 

[phatgemi]

ESEE Junglas has been my camping, kindling getting, wood spliting knife for 5+ years. Great tool and used as such! Today I get to finally test out their warranty department. Took a swing at a piece of wood, blade stuck, handle kept moving...

Wow!

 

[Vigilant]

ESEE Junglas has been my camping, kindling getting, wood spliting knife for 5+ years. Great tool and used as such! Today I get to finally test out their warranty department. Took a swing at a piece of wood, blade stuck, handle kept moving...

no worries they’ll replace it.

 

[jbombelli]

I've put this knife through some heavy work. It holds up.

 

[OurDee]

I chop and split with an axe. I cut with a smaller knife.

 

[Dead Duck]

ESEE Junglas has been my camping, kindling getting, wood spliting knife for 5+ years. Great tool and used as such! Today I get to finally test out their warranty department. Took a swing at a piece of wood, blade stuck, handle kept moving...

BLADE ABUSER!

 

[jsx1043]

I use a Mora Companion Carbon and a homemade chopper fashioned from and Ontario 12” machete. (I re-profiled the tip and modified the handle for grip, along with giving it a convex edge). I use the Mora for smaller camp stuff, and Getuda Choppah for bushcraftiness.

I could use either one for survival should I need to, just different skillsets based on their abilities. If I was smart I should probably just get a beefier mid-size blade like an ESEE or Busse.

 

[66chevelle]

Thank you all for the great ideas. I was told Saturday that we are going to Tennessee at the end of March. I figured I could wait till then and sneak out one morning and go see what Smokey mountain knife works has.

 

[Vigilant]

and go see what Smokey mountain knife works has.

Pretty much everything blade related.

 

[Sniper 79]

I usually use a folder but for cooking and camp chores like wood carving and cleaning a fish a standard Mora works decent. No biggie if it gets lost, left behind, or falls in the drink. High vis color is nice.

 

[OurDee]

Some thoughts on camping blades:
[video=youtube;M5KERgi5cYs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5KERgi5cYs[/video]

 

[Magneto]

I would suggest an Esee 4 and a chopper/hatchet for the other tool. Junglas or Jarosz Choppa are good options.

 

[Trapper Jim]

Randall. EOS.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I generally use a folder (my EDC). I keep a filet knife in my tackle box. Rarely have I had need for a hatchet since I typically find two trees close together, or with a fork in them to break my firewood to length. Anything I can't break gets burned in half and then "fed" into the fire as each end burns off. I also have a folding Cattaraugus "survival knife" that I use for cutting roots or small saplings if they interfere with where I want to set up my tent. If I were to pick a fixed blade "sheath knife", I'd go with my Cattaraugus 225Q.

Survival knife:

Cattaraugus 225Q:

 

[Dead Duck]

I generally use a folder (my EDC). I keep a filet knife in my tackle box. Rarely have I had need for a hatchet since I typically find two trees close together, or with a fork in them to break my firewood to length. Anything I can't break gets burned in half and then "fed" into the fire as each end burns off. I also have a folding Cattaraugus "survival knife" that I use for cutting roots or small saplings if they interfere with where I want to set up my tent. If I were to pick a fixed blade "sheath knife", I'd go with my Cattaraugus 225Q.

Survival knife:

That is the largest butter knife I've ever seen.

Is that one of those South American or island village made bush knife things?

 

[DoggyDaddy]

That is the largest butter knife I've ever seen.

Is that one of those South American or island village made bush knife things?

No, it was made by Cattaraugus (from NY I think). It was originally intended as a pilot survival "machete". WWII era... It's really handy. Mine doesn't have the sheet metal blade guard. Those are almost as expensive as the knives themselves if you can find them.

https://iknifecollector.com/forum/topics/the-aaf-folding-machete

 

[Dead Duck]

I think I have seen those in some knife collectors book somewhere. If they ever made a switchblade version it would break your wrist.