What exactly is a survival knife? Although the features of survival knives can vary greatly from one another, they generally serve the same objective—to allow someone to use it for survival. They are designed to serve a variety of purposes including fine work such as wood shaving or carving and animal skinning, or even heavy-duty work like the setting traps or cutting tenacious vines or branches. Some knives have plain edges, while others incorporate serrations for fish scaling or sawing action. Survival knives are descendants of traditional hunting knives, but can come in different weights with blades that feature varying thicknesses, points and contours. In this guide, we examine a selection of models that are very different from one another. Most are fixed blades, but some are folders. If you…
