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When I was in the military I was issued SOG fixed blades and Benchmade folders. No one rocks a K-bar where I was.

The most commonly used knife for crime/murder; kitchen knife.

I agree with you about the size of a hiking knive, that it shall be a small one. Depends on the location where you hike. I am doing a lot of hiking in Romania, where the bear population is the highest in Europe, i think. I allways carry a slightly bigger knive only for this reason, like 13-15 cm long blade. Not that i could defeat a bear and survive, but it makes me a bit more confident. And i'll have slightly more chances with a survival knive than a small bushcraft knive. Or i might be a bit too paranoic:))

first knife tip: buy a opinel 8 or 9, cheap af, very sharp (i bought the 12 and used it to scratch my back once but kinde have a scar now so yeah its sharp) easy to maintain

Unfortunately I live in the Uk and the knife laws have been in for years. My edc is a Victorinox which is legal to carry and I use it daily. I use my bushcraft knives when I go to the woods.

Manly Patriot and the blade on the Victorinox Spirit X, is what I've used the most, the last 7 years. No need for a better knife. For fun, training my bushcraft skills, I use a Mora Bushcraft Black and a Robust. For hiking,collecting wild edibles again Manly Patriot and Victorinox Rucksack, are my most used knives. Lionsteel M4, TRC Mille Cuori, among other great knives I own, all eat dust in the drawers,because they are not as practical, they do not fit the needs of a man day to day.

Knife laws only effect the people who carry a knife as a tool. Those who use a knife as a weapon will just go to the kitchen drawer & take a knife. Knife laws don't stop knife crime.

UK Knife laws are insane to. Soon we won’t even be able to own a butter knife. Great video.

The big issue with the rockstead isn't the hardness (although that doesn't help it), it's the steel. Zdp-189 is a poorly designed steel whose only real strength is sharpenability vs edge retention. It relies purely on a stupid amount of carbon and chromium for it's abrasiom resistance instead of using fewer much harder carbides (like vanadium or niobium). This high concentration of relatively course carbides means the toughness is horrible and, even with 20% chromium, it has poor stainlessness. Steels like k390, 10v, or vanadis 8 are steels that have the same edge retention while having much higher toughness.

Not gonna go up a mountain with a saw, an axe and a knife... *whistles whilst walking up a mountain with said things*

G'day guys, up front, not hating at all, great channel and agree with much of what you said on this one, especially on the point of particular environmental considerations. However; on the general question of "survival". Mark Young made a great comment earlier in the year, and I paraphrase "it's more like unplanned camping" yes indeed, particularly for the experienced and assuming you're not separated from your kit. Real survival though, requiters a better than decent shelter, maybe from scratch and I'd suggest "big fire" as the highest of priorities. Dont care what Ray Mears or anyone else says, you dont wanna do that with a 6 incher or less, yes it can be done and fill your boots, but it's only a back up option I reckon, so get fair dinkum you blokes, big fellas rule in that respect !!!!!! ...... and very often at reasonable prices too. Cheers Duke. P.S. the K-Bar fighting knife; ? fantastic piece of history if you have an original, ....... but really, a mass produced, cheap and nasty, piece of sh*t IMO, ...... better off using a bayonet I reckon ; )

Really enjoyed this video guys. Love the format and candid banter about mistakes we are guilty of. No shame in this game!!!

Mora Companion knives are great. Even for it's cost, it honestly works great and lasts for a long while based on how you use it. And no lie, buy 2 or 3 and keep them as spare's. You cannot go wrong.

Good advice on starting with a Mora, Rokka or something in between like an easy scandi Condor Terrasaur. Started camping at 10, got a foldable steel EKA scandivex grind, still use it. Only 40 yrs later I bought myself a 🇭🇷 custom Malanika, because of this channel 🤙. Bushcrafter in CPM Cruwear and Desert Ironwood. My precious. (The sheath, over time, does need extra stitches or rivets to keep the knife tight...) Precious but I'll smash it when batonning though, it's used, when camping/wood fire prep, it's not a 'display knife'. I'd probably bitch and moan for a month, if I'd ever chip a Rockstead, so it would be 'display only'. Not my cup of tea.

Here in Finland knife laws are not so hard, at least not yet. I don't remember the exact words, but you can carry knife of any size as long as you have a reason for it. I carry puukko openly on my work clothes, because I use it in many tasks as a maintanence guy. But self defence isnt a valid reason here, because there really is no need for that. There are only few places in biggest cities where you could get in trouble at night time. But those are allso the places where you should not carry (openly), because that will draw attension of both criminals and police. So, I wouldn't carry openly in biggest cities, but everywhere else - no one cares or says anything as long as you behave.

You cannot spend too much money on knives. You can spend too much on a knife.

I got a Irwin utility knife. And it's all I need.

Thankful to be living in a state where I can carry any kind of weapon without fear of being arrested or having it confiscated. I’m from Canada so there was lots of stuff I couldn’t own or carry there. Funny how the place where everyone can carry a gun has lower crime, I thought that more scary weapons caused MORE crime, that’s what the Canadian government told me…

Dank jullie, ik begon met een zakmes om te overleven op onbewoonde Polynesische eilanden, daar kwam ik er a;l snel genoeg achter dat het niet genoeg was en totaal niet voorbereid was. Sinds ik jullie kanaal heb ontdekt heb ik de zweede, Noorweegse en IJslandse wildernis getrotseerd. Ik kom uit de Veluwe en kijk jullie video's graag. Aan het sprannebos te zien lijken jullie daar ergens vandaan te komen. Ik ben benieuwd!

Love all your videos guys. Dank je wel. This particular one I found extremely helpful because I have fallen victim to many of the mistakes and needed to understand exactly what you highlighted here. Stay safe!

A most excellent video thanks. I recall buying a very large Kukhri for outdoor survival use, online from Nepal. I got the biggest one possible because I thought it was cool. It was that big it could only be operated two handed….so I sold that one pretty quick. 🇳🇱 🇳🇿

Best knife review channel hands down!

You two are always entertaining! Keeping everyone's wallets full. Thank you for the great advice and fun to watch content! Keep up the great work!

I am in a state where it is legal to at least open carry any knife as long as they are not ballistic knives and you only use Knives in self defense if you get into a fight, we are also allowed to conceal carry knives with the same restrictions but only as long as it is not too "aggressive" of a design (take for example a double serated microtech OTF knife, i have a feeling that if you get arrested or caught conceling one of those without letting people know in one way or another that you have one of those that you can get a fine or additional charges)

Thankfully we're still able carry whatever knives we want in Poland

Wow, exactly what i started learning sharpening with, my mora and its definitely one of my go-to's

Hi guys! You raised an extremely interesting topic 👌🏻. From my experience, I know that we often choose knives that are too large. I personally made such a mistake. In my opinion, they are more useful in the home garden than in the field. Apart from the fact that they are heavy and not very comfortable to carry, they make you aware that you can build a house thanks to the possibility of batoning large pieces of wood. but when going to the forest, the question is: where the hell can I find such large pieces of wood??? …. Of course, we can prepare them ourselves using an ax or saw. But if we are going to carry a saw or an axe, why do we need a large, heavy knife? To sum up, in my opinion a compact beast (e.g. FV F1… or BR Aurora, TRC DBK…) is sufficient in the field. The second option is: a saw and a small knife with a high level of edge retention. In other words, there's not much area to effectively use large knives in practice, although some are awesome. Best regards to all!💪🏻🔪

Always look forward to DBK Thursdays. Great job brothers. Tools have to meet the task. Knives are tools. Get a Mora and a DC4 and a DBK strop.

Knive people belong in the US of A. Only some cities ban the concealed carry of fixed-blade knives. Openly, you can carry any size knife.

I just bought 2 new knives. Two of my sons are now old enough to have their own pocket knives instead of borrowing mine. Civivi was a great option for them.

We got to see Martins Pa. Yay!

Merry Christmas and a Happy ne Year Dutch guys! We love you!!!

I just received my BPS DBK knife. Inexpensive, simple design, fits the hand, solid sheath. Don’t go crazy and spend too much. As the boys say, get a cheaper knife and use it, and try sharpening it and don’t worry about it being too good to use!

Fun fact about America, there are actually some very strict knife laws. Where you can be charged for having a simple butterfly knife or some other strange knife that no one event wants, but you will never get in trouble for carrying a pistol on you if you have a proper permit or obey the laws that have special rules on how you may carry a gun on your person.

My christmas knife is a Beavercraft BSH1. Its not big, heavy, expensive, or a survival knife. I am completely happy with it. Great knife.

For those getting into bushcraft: You won't get a better knife than the Mora Bushcraft Black or even the Mora Robust, just because tou payed way more. I still haven't found a knife ,that feathersticks easier and carves better,than the knives from Mora, aka Morakniv. They are also a dream to reprofile or even learn how to sharpen a knife. Those are the best, even for that! Their sheaths, are the most practical, because you don't have to clean the blade everytime you sheath the knife, thing that is most welcome, when collecting wild edibles! THey are also THE sharpest knives out there,which means, that both the heat treatment and the geometries, are spot on! For a bushcraft, a proper slightly convexed, scandi grind, on a blade that won't be thicker than 3 mm or much longer than 4 inches (9cm to 12cm maximum). and an ergonomic thick handle, is all you need.Hope this helps beginners, Happy new Year!!

yours opinions are important to me, i get alot of knowledge from yours

I find the Mora pretty hard to sharpen. The Scandi and no sharpening choil makes sharpening somewhat harder than with other cheap knives.

DBK: "Nr. 1 Spending too much money for a knife". Also DBK: "The DBK Bushcrafter...our Bushcrafter...the Bushcrafter...". 😆 Keep up the amazing work guys!

I got the DBK knife made by BPS since last weekend and it's amazing. It's so well made. It makes me happy

The Bark River Mini Gunny is a great hiking, edc, bushcraft, all around knife.

In Germany the knife laws also became harder (§42a). It's so ridiculous. The harder the law became, the more knife attacking idiots are outside. I was playing with knives since I was a kid, and my friends did so. No one cared about it. And we are well and nice behaving people😊. The law for punishing those knife-attackers otherwise didn't get harder. Why not? I would put them into jail for min. 5 years. If they kill someone, I'd never let them out again. But in Germany you'll get out sometimes, after 15 years (so called lebenslänglich / lifelong arrest😂) even for a murder. Only when the judge says: lebenslänglich mit anschließender Sicherheitsverwahrung, (sorry cannot translate that correct) then they keep you inside prison forever! For me a knife is a tool. Different knives for different work, that's it. Nice video like always. Oh, by the way...who was that woman with the nice voice on mistake 1 and 4?😘

One knife to rule them all for bushcrafting? Yes, The Enzo Trapper in Elmax steel. Under $200; Holds a great edge; Strikes a fire steel well; Highly weather resistant, won't rust if you take care of it; Not hard to resharpen like some super steels. Good ergonomics and design.

Honest opinion: all my knives I really use are knives in the 30-60 Euro price range... other knives stay mostly at home😅 This is for "bushcraft" knives I own and for multitools... My favorit bushcraft knives for use are Mora knives or Verustelikka Pukku knives and my favorite multitools are clones of the Leatherman Surge or Wave... I have a genuine Surge and Wave, more expensive bushcraft knives... but as "dayly" drivers I prefer the cheaper ones which can compete with the more expensive ones in nearly every tasks.

The knives I used when I was in the army. Where the same knives that everyone else used in the civilian world. We had 1 folding knife, 1 leatherman, and 1 full-tanged sheath knife. I know full well the Marines had the Kabar making their knife for them. They where cheap, but not junk. My leatherman was the best tool I had.

Just buy a mora garberg. Cant go wrong with it for the price.

The Tom brown tracker is just like a collectors piece because of the movie the hunted

Hi! Would you consider to do an test for a isaki järvenpää puukko. They are really famous in Scandinavia for making traditional finish puukkos. But I would love to se your opinion

Talking about simple knives, I have knives that are novel, yet simple enough to be functional, Idaho made knives: TOPS Wolf Pup XL and Esse RB 3. Not gimmicky AND not boring.

You guys ever been checking out knives at your local knife dealer and accidentally clip your palm while you were closing a mini bugout and you started to bleed a little but you don’t want the knife guy to notice so you switch hands and now you have to open and close the axis lock with your non-dominant hand while you subtly check to see if you got blood on it before you hand it back? I haven’t done that last weekend either.

I got a shit ton of Woodbear knives and love them all! I love my LTwk and Jacklore

I live in the USA. The state I live in (Pennsylvania) I can carry anything I want. I have a Concealed Carry Permit so I can carry “other” items as well as knives anytime I choose. 🇺🇸

Your funny the tracker is the only I would want in survival situation

My edc is a higonokami and it never lets me down , my opinion the best knife for its money ever 😊

After many years.... Pennsylvania finally made otf knives legal. Just ordered a microtech Dirac delta.

Big Up from the UK 👊😎✌️

You so nailed this one, thank you! If one is buying a knife just because they love the design - than everything goes (I got TOPS Knives Earth Skills just for that reason), but if one is looking for a user, then going 'back to basics' is the best way - and only go 'up' once you really understand what works for you. One of the first knives I ever got was Iiisaki Aito - and while I don't use it often these days - every time I need to do some wood working - it is the knife I grab even though I have some more fancy ones (but obviously don't have the DBK bushcrafter yet - that is to be fixed eventually).

Some good and practical tips. It cost a lot of money to get the cool thing--is it good or practical... no "it's cool that's why it's more money."

Martin is the Anime Character that always has snacks in his hands hahaha I edc a ULB but have a BK9 but we have Grizz ,black bear n Elk IF you go Big Go BK9 lol

The US Navy SEALs are given the Cold Steel SRK. I hear it's pretty good, so I just ordered one.

Folding knives are pretty much illegal in the UK........ Sucks because I'd like the good Benchmade Bugout in aluminum .....I've got to 50 years old and not threatened or used a knife on anybody .

Best part of this video is all the rhyming they were doing for the knives 😂😂 love the DBK boys

If all I was doing over nights and hiking. Hands down victorynocks ranger. All purpose knife. Then go bigger if needed. Good video keep up the hard work.

Victorinox Bantam, Alox scales: my pocket knife always, everywhere. Others are added as required.

My EDC knife has two 1 1/2 inch blades on it

I agree with all of what you are saying. Simple is better. So many weird scale shapes that would hurt your hands. What is up with that? 🔪🎸

In one case you are wrong. More (knives) is always better! 😛

From my experience, the better the knife is, the more boring it looks! Fallkniven U2 and F1, Brisa Kephart, Ahti Vaara. They all look extremely boring, but they feel awesome to use!

I'm buying myself a BRK Cub EDC for Christmas. It's a smaller version of the original Cub design. I've not found a lot of info on the knife, but it seems to fit my needs. The handle is a full size and the blade is short (98mm) and thin (3mm) in 3V.

I definitely spent too much on knives... but over multiple cheap and mid range. I've got too many knives... if there was such a thing 😂

Randall Made model 1 All purpose fighter hey Errol Flynn owned one , serious street cred. 😂

Sorry about the knife laws. I'm so lucky to live in Ohio, where my EDC is often my NL4 Frej, perfectly legit, no one cares. (BTW I wish you'd review the Frej. I get why you love the Idun so much. I'd like to see you compare and contrast these two.)

The nice thing about Tennessee is that there is no law against any kind of sword, knives or blades.

what is your favorite bushcraft knife? and the favorite Military knife woild also be interesting 😅

I love living in Louisiana. Here, I can walk around in public wearing a Condor Jungle Bowie II or a CRKT Hissatsu with zero legal issues. 🤩

You are right. 💯% But I still like my Hibben knives :-)

I live in Kentucky where I can own and carry whatever knife I want. I love our knife laws.

The much coveted MOP TK3 Falkniven makes an appearance. If only Santa would bring me one of those. Merry Christmas boys. 👍🏻🤠🇺🇸

you guys have talent... LOL HI!!! I edc for my mobile workshop hehe

This is a great video! That's too bad about the knife laws! Keep putting out heat🔥

I feel your Pain about Knife Laws, I live in Canada, Laws made by People that have never Carried, bought or worked with a Knife! To me , ''Banning any Type of Knife, is like Banning all Cars because a Few Drink and Drive'' A quote from another KZfaq Channel.

Y'all have got to try out LT Wright knives. They are the best semi-custom maker I've ever seen or owned. Once you get one in hand you'll see what I mean. Happy Holidays dudes!

Will you guys try the Benchmade 185 SOCP ?

The number 6. Buy from a reputable company don't get scammed. Some companies advertise great knives but never deliver on their promises and keep your money for years. Example Survive Knives.

A military knife is not a fighting tool but an item to open things with 99% of the time. Period! REALLY Like your videos but had to clarify - CHEERS Fellas

Great video guys. 👍

Not everybody. You made and make these mistakes and possibly your followers who trust your judgement. There are very few new designs. It's usually variations on existing designs like your Bushcrafter. The Tracker is a new design, just a bad design. I agree on that one. IMO there are no survival knives or bushcraft knives. Just knives. In locations where I travel my machete is often the knife most used for bushcraft tasks. Military knives are very often bad knives. They are often cheaply produced knives and in bulk so the production cost is usually very low. An exception is often found in Scandinavia. I agree on the EDC part where really all you need or can take is a simple (non locking) SAK. So it seems like you are finally getting what I was telling you all this time?

Man, I just realised that survival is real thing and therefore I need a new UG tools

The only way you should pay 4500 euro's for knife would be if it could cook dinner . happy Trails

I am very happy with my Bark River Bravo 1.5 in A2 steel. It fits my needs perfectly 👍

Should i choose böker bronco or falkniven F1cos for bushcraft knife?

who is that dagger danglin around Martens neck?

Merry Christmas gentlemen, 😎👍👍

Thank you guys 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🫶🏼🤝

Thumbies up guyzz! 😁👍🏼

What about Netherlands new knife legislation?

if you do not like the new laws, then don't comply. It is your life at stake not the government. They have paid killers guarding them while the people have to stand naked and defenseless

Excellent stuff!! Enjoy watching u guys having a laugh while being informative, and taking the urine outta stupid big knives!! 😂😂

gentlemen, speaking of survival knives, do you guys think you could review an Aitor Jungle King 2?