i need to get me a good SURVIVAL KNIFE,any recommendations would be help full

KABAR Becker BK7 - excellent reviews! Got one on the way/

Go to a few RESALE SHOPS....

Buy several Good Kitchen Knives. Your looking for Full-Tang blades. Chicago Cutlery makes great products. You want paring knives, Chef's Knives and carver knives. Pay about $2ea.

Leave you enough money for a good sharpener set, like a diamond hone and a ceramic stick set. A nice Arkansa stone is also good.

Keep your eye open for a decent hatchet and single bladed axe. Pawnshops are also a source for good deals.

Restaurant Supply houses sell great quality knives too; just not as cheap. A hD meat cleaver is a great tool for chopping.

Cold Steel makes a great utility knife called The Bushman which is all steel with a hollow handle that can adapt for use as a spear. They are cheap; probably still under $20. I paid $12 for mine.

If you want to learn about bush use of the knife; look for Ron Hood's The Hoodlums forum and maybe some of his videos.


Don't forget when pawnshopping, always take cash and offer at least half of the asking price. Make sure they know you're paying with cash for the best deal.


$100 can get you a great edged setup if you use it wisely and don't mind buying used. Just don't forget to get a decent sharpening system. Cheap kitchen knives like Old Hickory are carbon steel and they are ewasiest to sharpen and maintain. Stick to USA, Euro, or Japanese made stuff and you will be fine.

Have FUN Knife-Hunting!

I found a surplus knife that was originally made for Polish commandos.
Kinda like a smaller Kabar with a tanto like tip. Very very practical and was like $17 about 5 years ago. I bought a pile.

would also like to keep it under a hundred bucks.

You need to get one with a serration on it, just straight blades are not at all fit for survival.

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and done.

Fixed or folder?

For folders: Emerson makes a wide selection of great knives.

For fixed: SoG and ColdSteel

The thing is for a survival knife you need what's considered a hard use knife and most of those aren't cheap. SoG has them around your range but Emerson and ColdSteel are mostly higher but we are talking about lifetime warranty knives that will take extreme abuse without failure, and for a survival you want that so spending more money on something that you can know won't fail is a better by than one you cant trust.

Case in point: I have 2 of these and I can testify that these knives are so tough that you can go through a car door or roof and not hurt the edge, hell if you're strong enough you could use them as climbing spikes. I've even driven one in a tree and used it as a step to get to higher branches. It's better to buy quality from the beginning, being cheap will get you hurt or killed.


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Cut a tree, start a fire, filet a fish... one knife.

Tanto blades are for swords, not knives.

would also like to keep it under a hundred bucks.

Don't get a knife that is too large to be useful in making other small tools or skinning small game.

You won't be stabbing grizzly bears, but you might be skinning a squirrel. A full tang knife with a 4-5 inch blade is about as large as one needs--it will handle the squirrel, the deer, elk and caribou. It should be small enough to help fashion fish-hooks or scale a panfish.

Buy a pack of sawsall blades....file the non serrated side to a knifes edge...put a handle with brands on it...now you have an excellent survival blade...