OK, I've written how much I like the S5. BUT based on (So far) non use, I think the TRASH will probably supplant it as my EOTWAWKI blade. No it will not skin a rabbit or squirrel as well as the S5, but it doesn't need to. just chop off the legs and head, then peel the skin right off them. Now IF it had a distal taper it would also work on the smaller critters but it doesn't and as a true survive anything blade, it probably shouldn't. It is made to get you through anything, to do anything and to keep you alive. This it will do, acting as a shelter builder, shovel, meat and veggie cutter along with an ice cutter and rock breaker. This is what a survival knife should do, and do without damaging the blade to the point of no longer being useful.

IT can be your "There can be only one" knife, and do it well. If you had this knife, paired with say the Swamp Warden, you could rebuild civilization. I think it will prove to be that kind of a knife. It will NOT be perfect at any one task, but WILL work for what you can do with a knife.


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