Here we go derailing another one of my threads.

So, who else cares to throw their ideal wilderness survival knife features into this thread?

Hey, I did use a knife to cut Patty's Tuna sandwich.

Hey, I could say something really cool but don't want to make fun of folks that didn't do anything to themselves to be the way they are.

So let's just say I am touched by the stupid stick from time to time, and the older I get the more I get touched! Hopefully I'll never forget what a knife is though.

Welp, I have a good contender headed my way. Pretty soon I'll have a SAR5 in the house again. I'll post pics when I get it.

This immediately brought a post-swimming pool George Costanza to my mind.

I'm sure that no one wants to see pictures of an 8 year old knife so I won't have to worry about posting any pictures.

Actually this is a pretty good thread. We've all got ideas of what the perfect knife is. But it will only be perfect to each one of us as individuals. We will each one of us find something that is just a little off. BUT we can find a compromise that will probably be as close to perfect (for us) as possible.

Let the quest continue.

I think about knives therefore I am a knife? I dunno.

My thoughts on what features are really needed in a single "perfect wilderness survival knife" are coalescing. I still don't want to influence this thread, but I will say a knife with all of my features does not yet exist.

There hasn't been a lot of praise for choppers as the "single knife" which tells me everyone posting here has been in the woods or at least mentally prepared to be in the wood.

I love big knives (I am Australian, it is in our gene code) BUT, other than playing around at home or just for fun, I have never needed to use a knife to chop firewood. “Batoning” is also a VERY foreign concept to most of us. The Australian bush is populated with trees that dumps LOTS of dead fall timber so one generally only has to wander around a little to find the makings of a fire. If you are anywhere in a National Park/State Recreation area there is about NO firewood to be had (as all the other campers have burnt it up already. If driving in to these I just take a box of wood from around home. This whole logic negates a large chopper as my single blade.

I do however like the ability offered by larger than “traditional” blades such as splitting and working wood to make a DECENT shelter (not just an overnight/survival jobby) and for a number of tasks that are not traditionally “knife” work. I personally think the “closest to perfect” single knife made is the RMD but as I stated up there earlier, if I was to have BUT ONE to carry off and face destiny with it would be the .22 ASH1 followed by a .32 ASH1. It does NOTHING perfectly (except perhaps sit in my hand) but, to me and for my PERCEIVED needs (because these things are all about the individual) it adequately (or better) meets those needs.

yep

Wait, Andy likes the ASH? Who would have thought that!

Cb, maybe we should stage a YARD SKELLY type in on the Knife side forum/

Andy
When I was growing up here in western Canada outdoorsmen carried an axe and small fixed blade
The only person that I can remember batoning as a kid was my dad and that was usually for making kindling

My dad taught me to baton as we used this method frequently to cut kindling in the house for our fireplace