I disagree, I have no place for intimidation only sheer brutality/aggression if my life is threatened. Intimidation doesn't always work the way the movies make it look…..

Your Basic survival knife.

It doesn't get any more basic. Blade is an old military truck spring. The brass is "Recycled" 20mm ammo casings. The Silver is thin aluminum. The handle "Leather" is Water Buffalo hide. The sheath I had made about 1980, 4 or 5 years after I go the knife. The Knife wasn't cheap either. Cost me $2.50 in 1975 or 76 dollars (bought in the Philippines)! I paid $25.00 for the sheath in Texas.

I meant intimidation because of the way the knife looks.

There have been all sorts of specs in this thread

There have also been some Very Mild derailments.

Hey, Feces Occurs.

Well, sometimes intimidation works. I had to resort to that tactic only three times in my life to get out of a bad situation so that's not enough for a good statistical evaluation. Not my method of choice, however.

By intimidation I was talking about how Mean and wicked the blade looks. And yeah, it you are going to try and intimidate someone, you BETTER be ready to back it up.

One time, the gun was not loaded. The four guys, however, did not even have any pocket knives on them. I was lucky.

I once had a lady ask me what kind of gun she should get. I recommended a revolver for it's simplicity. Load the cylinder and forget about it until you need it.

I then asked her what kind of ammunition she wanted to use and went on to explain about wadcutters, hollowpoints, +P etc etc. She then said "Oh I won't load it I just want to scare them". I told her to NOT buy a gun.

Very true. It is not a good idea to threaten with an empty gun.

Yes, but this the first time the op has listed some specs of what his ideal wilderness survival knife would be.

He's a sneaky one.