CRKT has been around for almost thirty years. They helped end many of the import restrictions that were in place 20+ years ago. They are an outstanding asset to the knife community, as well as to the military.

This was very enjoyable. I liked that all the tools were from down to earth companies that make affordable gear

Sure would be nice to see a video on how Randy sharpens his tools. Especially his hatchets and axes.

I so much appreciate that Randy is getting more film time to share that massive amount of knowledge and experience with us!😎👍👍

The best knife is the one you have on you. I've seen people try to sell knives that were 4 or 5 hundred dollars claiming it was the best knife ever. If you look at the history of pioneers and people who depended on their knives they usually repurposed knives they already had. They'd reshape a butcher knife and that was their go to beater knife for camp craft. They'd have a small folder for more delicate work. Great job and love the recommendations from people who actually use the tools in the field.

Randy is awesome. I took some of their classes, and Randy was wearing 7 knives on his gunbelt.

There's a reason the Vikings liked and used their bearded axes to great effect wherever they went, they weren't just a tool, they were a phenomenal fighting weapon.

I just saw this video, I'm a " Edged Tool " guy of 77 years, Vietnam Naval Combat Vet., 64-68, I still use my KBAR., among others. I just subscribed to your channel. D. Hughes, Blessings 🙏

CRKT makes good stuff. I own a handful of their knives. The first one Randy showed is one I carry frequently. I like knowing that they sent you guys a big box of them when you deployed. I like them even more now. I'm going to check out that fox pathfinder. That thing is awesome! Loved every second of it guys. Thanks for sharing, Randy. I love the way you guys talk about tools that work for the job at hand. It doesn't matter about price or name, but what works. I really respect, and appreciate that. Thank you very much.

No frills...No BULLSHIT...and learning Randy is from my home state of Wyoming!...LOVE IT!

Great video guys! I'm an axe fan myself. Haven't seen that coldsteel model in a very long time and btw for any wondering the "el chete" is made by Tops. Looking forward to the fighting knife video! 🤘🔪🤙

Crkt is great! Their customer service is 2nd to none. I ordered a new clip for my crkt fossil. It had been discontinued so they said i could send in my knife and get any knife in their catalogue or get 50% of any other blade and keep it. I kept it and got the ramada for half price! I love em they are super cool!

Great information. I carry 2 blades, 1. 18 inch Ontario Machete, and 2. Victorinox Trekker.

Great info! Thanks for your service and being real Americans!!

Agree with CRKT. Great customer service. Good quality and generally affordable.

That wrapped axe. That wrapped! Did you see the quality of wood on the handle? Gorgeous.

Would like to see a video on the deer skinning technique. Sounds awesome.

Great video! Thanks Randy! Somehow, I've ended up with most of those names in my everyday and specialty cutting tools - Browning, Fiskars and Spyderco plys a couple others like Winchester and Buck. I need to check out and stock up on the CRKT line tho. Excellent advice here! Cutting and incisive!... pun intended. Thanks for posting this!

Thank you soooooo much for taking a commercial break! Your the first I’ve seen to do it and it’s sooo much better.

Great "Old School Cool" and affordable choices Gents. THANK YOU !

Randy has to be my favorite guest on your show. Reminds me of a much older more bad ass cersion of myself. I can imagine the funny looks he gets when he sits down for a meal and whips out a blade as I too have experienced this. Love your work Gentlemen, please keep these videos coming. Best late night entertainment I have.

I have that same CRKT hatchet myself, chosen because it does look so much like a Viking bearded axe...everything positive Randy said about it has proven true every time I've used it. It's great for shaving kindling, splits tinder like a champ, and I've used the back of it to drive tent stakes...of course the best part is looking like a "badass" in front of the "city kids" by using a single tool for every stage of building a campfire with a single tool. (It doesn't hurt that I can also accomplish many of the same tasks with my Cold Steel SF, their answer to the Ka-Bar USMC knife...good for driving tent stakes, chopping wood by batoning the back of the blade with a stick, and shaving kindling with ease...again it's fun to see the amazement in the eyes of folks that likely weren't Boy Scouts or the like growing up watching someone using fairly easy if not standard bushcraft skills do things that make them think I grew up on some mountain somewhere only to find that I grew up only a few miles from Disneyland.)

Had 3 knife fights in a former life. Index finger fileted and shoulder driven through. Folders MAKE NOISE! Everyone in the bar hears it lock. music, noise, etc etc. Don't matter. Keep that in mind and avoid fights until ya can't.

I have a crkt minimalist neck knife been wearing for a few years hardly ever take it off. Perfect little back up knife.

Awesome guys, loved it.

Excellent video. You two are awesome. God bless.

Thank you Randy!

Great video. Like Randy's tools, my best tools are worn, ugly, long lasting, and most importantly... they work.

Appreciate the affirmations, great minds do think alike .great video.

Love these Randy videos! He's such a wealth of knowledge! Loved the photos from his time as a Green Beret, and Cowboy. Tell Randy we appreciate him sharing his knowledge.🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅

I love CRKT products too, they strike the price-quality balance pretty well and, well, some of their designs are just cool

I used to carry a CRKT M21. I loved the flipper on it, and I considered this knife extremely fast and intuitive to employ. I used it extensively for years. Then someone got me thinking about knives as they applied to personal defense. I am under the impression that inside a certain distance, one shouldn't bring a gun to a knife fight. If I am in a fight at inside the bathroom stall distances, where I am likely to be tied up and grappling, and my draw is likely to be contested, I will go for my knife before my sidearm almost every time. But this means I had to be confident in my ability to draw and employ my folding knife while in the clinch, or otherwise at extremely personal distances. So I had a friend with a plastic spoon attempt to "rob me at spoon point." We always ended up tied up, and I was never able to deploy the CRKT successfully, even though I had done it thousands of times before and considered it so simple and intuitive when not under duress, while trying to keep from getting "stabbed" and having someone grab and slap at my hand while I was trying to get it into the fight, it proved impossible. I didn't have much better luck with my Benchmade auto. And I no longer consider a folding knife applicable to self defense. Because the bad guy is not going to allow you to do your little wrist roll, your fancy flick thingy, that trick with the zip tie, none of that. It all requires too much coordination while struggling to keep your feet under you and desperately trying to not get stabbed. It is legal in my state, so I carry a small, by my standards, fixed blade, a Tops HOG4.5. No hinges to fill with pocket link and debris, no buttons or flippers to find, springs to wear out, no fine muscle coordination required. Just grab the handle, gross motor coordination gorilla grip is fine, and yank that son of a bitch out. I highly recommend anyone carrying a folding knife for defense to run some exercises with you.

CRKT you just earned my business for life! I was already a huge fan! Thank y’all for supporting our troops!!!!

Great video guys.

Thank you so much, it was big pleasure! I learned one important thing!

With all the knives Randy has used I’m sure he has some stories about getting bad cuts accidentally, could be a dual purpose topic with some first aid worked in

This was awesome!!!!!!!! Thanks Karl!!!!!God bless you

Thank-you for putting in the break

Congratulations on 700,000 subscribers

Love to see Randy's fighting knives

Great presentation. I have taken an old Carpenter's Hatchet and undercut the blade to make it bearded then put a small boys axe handle on it and also re-profile the blade Edge. So I get it chop feather pound all-in-one.

Always love a good video with Randy! Thanks to both you guys.

He has an awesome collection of knives. Randy has a great wealth of knowledge and experience. Tell him thank you for his service for me, when you see him. 👏

Great info!

Awesome video 👍👍

You can do a hell of a lot with a garden variety machete. And in S. America they use a knife about half way between a butcher knife and a machete, blade 10-12"' long. very useful.waht mountain men carreid ws NOT a fancy damascus bowie or something it was Green River knives with about 5" blades. They bought Green Rivers by the dozen, as they lost or broke or wore out knives, and also traded them to Indians. I like the littel bearded ax. The Norse used those for boat building, among other things. They had bigger ones for wood chopping and fighting.

Have a few CRKT products, including the Freyr bearded axe. Great stuff. Best bang for the buck IMHO.

I love knives! I will never go to the taiga without an axe. But the best weapon in hand-to-hand combat in a trench is an ordinary sapper shovel with sharply ground edges. Do not forget, an infantry soldier must carry everything on himself. A sapper shovel is a must. An axe it's overweight.

Thanks TR for another outstanding educational video. Sent I been watching your channel. Your team and especially Randy has open my eyes on carrying more than one knife. My everyday carry at work and home are two different types of knifes . First knife is a (beater) work knife and the Second is a personal defense knife. Also carry multiple knifes and tools in my vehicle for emergency.

Yeah!! Randy is back. Love Randy’s realistic point of view no gimmicks or bs. 🇺🇸

I have the El Chete from TOPs and they will re-edge if you mess it up just pay for shipping. But I have cut small trees down with it

The Fox Pathfinder is sold out. Thanks for showing us the tools you USE.

I would love to see his combat blades! That's a very impresivd collection and i will be picking up that CRKT Fryers Axe! Thanks a lot and God Bless!!!!

I love the fact that you bring experts onto your channel.

excellent vids thanks

A good sharp camp hatchet is priceless

Awesome stuff, thank you.

Love CRKT , OWN 3 Beckers ,m-16 is my EDC . EVEN THE STAINLESS STEEL ( hate stainless) hold and take an edge. Must have 5 minimalist the NEW DUAL GRIND KATANA MINIMALIST is the ultimate choice 85% of all you’ll need ! $32!

Informative and beneficial video

Thanks Gents!

Really like the fact that Randy bring his own gear in to show us what really works and what he uses. I need a good saw, what does Randy recommend. Thanks for all you guys do.

Great video my Brothers in Arms, Blessings and love to you and your families.

Randy has awesome knowledge. I never knew you could sharpen a knife on a car window until he showed us.

I love Randy's segments.

Hey gents, great tools CRKT rocks! Wonder if we crossed paths in the sandbox was there same time ..that was some heat left 3 shades darker lol

I was a loyal customer of CRKT. I had a problem getting a handle to fit there tomahawk I purchased. One of there employees talk to me like they bought me at an auction. JKL LV

Excellent video. Thanks. Looking for that nordic CRKT axe. Ps. Hearing that patriotic story of CRKT sending that knife box…….Great one.

A few short video clips with your expert using each tool, along with him maintaining (sharpening) that tool after each use, would improve your content - especially for visual learners. Having said that, I did enjoy the undeniable authenticity of the presentation.

Randy’s skills and experience are legendary and he’s got the right tool for the task 🇺🇸

Awesome video!

Nothing wrong with CRKT and Coldsteel knives. He picks good brands and has a good philosophy of use for them.

Can’t wait for the fighting knife video!

I carry the Spiderco Emerson wave and mine didn't open completely one time so I took it apart and put some lithium grease on the metal to metal contact points and it opens every time now.

I learned a lat , thanks for sharing this 👊👊👊 Greetings from Brazil

I knew I should have subbed earlier. I am now. Great video. Charles

I love CRKT knives. They do what you need em to

That bearded hatchet is badass and that baby hatchet is too.

Thank you

Crkt luv there knives.the avant tac, awesome tool

Thanks gents, great stuff!

real world working tools.. loved the video

I have that second CRKT (Obake) in my pocket right now, and that wrap is factory. It is my personal steak knife and I love it. I also have a waved Endura 4 and I tried to cut after one of those failure to lock, thank God for gloves.

I respect your guidance. You recommend many ways to do may things enabling one to meet many challenges with success. JKL LV

Good info!

@4:56. I carry that around my neck. That knife is a love hate relationship. I sharpen knives as a little side gig and feel that the steel is a little softer than I would like it. It doesn’t hold an edge for very long it’s either that or I beat the crap out of my edges and am not aware. I guess I am more partial to carbon steel blades opposed to stainless

Tops, Cold Steel. CRKT Knives - AWESOME!!!!

Great content and oh so relevant.

Quick tip: a zip tie can act as an improvised Wave on your Spyderco and other knives with a thumb hole.

The bearded axe is my favourite. Chop, pound and cut!!!

Would really enjoy a video on how he sharpens the various knives and tools.

Another Fantastic Video full of great information.. Nothing but the best from Karl and The Chief..!!

"taking second place in a knife fight" end quote.

This is a great format for videos. Appreciate it not all the marketing b******* just tried and tested s*** that works

Check out the Bark River Golok, Randy. I replaced my hatchet with one. You can never have too many knives.

Thanks Karl and randy

Yes love knives 👍 great video thanks.

The El Chete is made by TOPS Knives, in case Randy was wondering.

Great info but the crkt obake doesn’t have a belt clip and come with the 550 cord wrapping.

Fiskars is a amazing blade company, the splitting axes are smartly designed

I own about 10 ESEE, Morakniv, and fiskars tools. Out of all, I find my 60$ ESEE Darien machete and a little 2.5 inch CR2.5 are all I need. Maybe a silky pocketboy for shelter building. I've found a lot of the concepts he's explaining here apply to my kit too.