Survival Knife Reviews

Hey Guys and Gals. I found this Buck Paklite Skinner at Wally World recently and thought I take it for a spin. I’m not a big fan of all metal minimalist designed knives, which is one reason I almost passed this knife up. But I figured for a $20 bill I could find some use for it, even if it was only to throw in my boat or glove box of my pickup.

Once I got it home and out of the bubble package, which is a freakin’ chore, one which you need a bigger knife for, my first impression of this knife was “flimsy”. Although it doesn’t bend obviously, it just ‘felt’ flimsy. Possibly because of it’s ultra light weight, I dunno.

Okay, I’m going to come clean. I get a huge laugh out of many of the so called ‘Survival Knife Reviews’ on YouTube. I watch a lot of these and realize that the person doing the review has probably never, or very rarely, used a knife in either a Camping or Survival situation. Well, that’s not fair, most of us have never been in a true survival situation where we had to depend on our blades for our life. But in reality, most of us who buy survival knives do so to take them camping with us or out hiking around the woods.

I mulled over the decision on whether or not to put the Buck Pilot in  Survival Knife Reviews. For no other than it’s size. And it’s for this reason I finally decided to put it in the review after all. For the sake of this argument, size alone should not be the sole defining factor of describing a survival knife! Although the Buck Pilot is a small folding knife, it has qualities that any survival knife needs in order to be successful.

Although Gerber calls this a Survival/Combat knife, I believe that title has more to do with marketing than with what this knife really is, which is a survival knife. If you really wanted to get down to the nitty gritty, any knife can be classified as a “combat knife”. Anyhow, I chose the Gerber Prodigy Survival Knife as my first survival knife review. I have a couple of these and they are like a Timex. They take a beating and keep on going (notice how I avoided using the Timex trademarked phrase? LOL)

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you’ll find something useful here on this site. My goal here is to bring you real world survival knife reviews. With the cost of knives in general, and survival knives specifically, I hope to let you see first hand how well built a survival knife is before you lay down your hard earned money. If you’re anything like me, I’ve ordered more than one kind of knife and had it be a piece of crap once I got it. My goal here is to help prevent this for my readers.