This brings us to a modern version of the camp or survival knife, the British MOD-4 Survival knife. I don't care much for the balance on this one. The thick full tang puts too much weight in the handle for a chopper. It just doesn't feel right for some reason. The steel is soft for easy sharpening, a bit too soft. It dulls easily. It will chop, but for such a thick broad blade, I expected better. It is only marginally better than the Ka-Bar and SOG as a chopper.

Its thick blade does make it a good splitter.


But the point, if you can call it that, is pathetic. It bouced out of the log after a solid point first hit when I threw it.


But the knife is tough as nails, and it would be a realiable, if clunky, survival knife.