Bobby Bigtime
Senior Member
Like most outdoor folk I love and use knives a lot. I am lucky enough to recreate in true wilderness and knives are an integral part of all things outdoorsy. The bushcrafters, hunters, woodsmen, survivalists, hikers etc... All have their own take on blades and preferences. I dig knives and always have and what folks like is their own business. In days past , whatever knife you carried was expected to do what you needed without a modicum of thought about if you had the right tool for the job. When one ventured out the trusty blade simply went along. Now days there are all these knife experts out there pitching what knives one should carry and the tasks they need to preform, otherwise you are ill prepared. I guess what I'm getting at here is all this time I never gave much thought into if I was packing the right tool. I use to go into the mountains for a month at a time and my knife (whatever it was) was silently doing it's duty. even on minimalist excursions I never once batoned a piece of wood or I guess really needed to. I built shelters and processed fish and game and managed to survive. I don't know about you folks but over time(a lot of time) I have decided that when it comes to knives I like to keep it simple. I like my own hand made models and a few commercial ones as well. Is there too much emphasis placed on what we carry? Or am I just a hard-nosed ol geezer?