Survival Knife Reviews

Imagine yourself trapped in an island, in the Wilderness or in the Desert somewhere. Alone, no food and no one to call for help. Can you survive a day or two while the rescuers are on their way to find you? Yes you can if you have a quality survival knife with you and keep your senses.

Survival knives are probably the most important tool ever created by man. They are made to be used in wilderness when no other equipment is available. Aside from being handy, these knives are designed to do tough jobs like cutting branches and skinning animals. Hunters, hikers, outdoor sports enthusiast, forest rangers and military personnel use this knife.

I have to admit it, I bought the F03T-N SOG Jungle Primitive because it looked like one bad ass survival knife. But deep down I knew, something this cheap would not be a top of the line performer in a survival setting. Was I right or was I wrong? Well my good friend, keep reading!

Once I had the SOG JP in my hand, I knew I had to take it out immediately and do an impromptu SOG Jungle Primitive Review with it. Since I live in the boonies so to speak, it was rather easy to find stuff to test out the SOG on.

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.