How to choose the best Survival Knife

Choosing the Best Survival Knife

Everyone has their own preference for a survival knife but when the SHTF your going to need a a quality knife to cope with all survival situations. Choosing the Best Survival Knife for Doomsday Preparedness is very important to ensuring your survival and no more so than having a knife that suits you and a knife that you feel comfortable with – is a very personal choice.

To be honest, just about any knife is a good knife in a survival situation – but some a far better than others - 

As always, it’s better to be fully prepared and have a good knife that your familiar handling and feel comfortable with.

Without doubt choosing the best survival knife will come down to how much you really want to spend on one.

Some knife manufacturers charge upwards of £800 for a hand built knife that is guaranteed to last and be able to withstand all survival situations, but there’s precious few preppers who would spend that kind of money when their £800 could go on several other pieces of essential equipment. 

 

What’s the secret of choosing the Best Survival Knife?

Any preppers knows that the survival knife is one of the most the essential tools in their survival kit, and as such must be much more than just a ‘knife to cut things with’.

A survival knife must be good enough, strong enough and sharp enough to manage all the basic survival tasks that include hunting, combat, cutting, chopping, bush-craft  and much, much more.

A good quality survival knife can easily be a life saver that enables you to accomplish all the basic requirements of survival outdoors.

Your knife must be capable of enabling you to create a comfortable shelter and to start a fire, to hunt for and prepare your food, it must also be capable of clearing pathways and for digging, as well as giving personal protection if required.

Choosing your knife depends on many factors, some of these are more important than others, so I suggest a quick look at my guide to choosing a survival knife for more information and tips.

 

There are many choices of survival knives, that offer various qualities.

Currently, with the popularity of the Bear Grylls series on the TV it’s possible to see how a knife can be used effectively - so much so that there is now a full range of Bear Grylls survival equipment including the superb Bear Grylls Ultimate Fixed Blade Survival Knife
from Gerber.

Essentials of a good survival knife.

Quality knives don’t come cheap – but there’s a few things to consider when buying one -

• A folding knife is far more liable to break due to the folding action
• The knife must fit you size of hand – if the handle is to thick you will loose grip
• A fixed blade knife is better for levering and chopping
• Always choose a ’3/4′ or  ‘full tang’ knife’, where the blade runs through into the handle

 Below is a guide to the best survival knife with essential information to help you -

Within the columns you can choose from:

 

• type of survival knife
• cost comparison in ££’s
• blade & knife length guide
• knife weight
• survival rating 

There are many survival knives to choose from, but below I have listed my favourites -

*use the column arrows within the headers to help you choose from blade lengths, weight, price etc…….

Description	Photo	Price £££	Blade Length	Overall Length	Knife Weight	Score
Gerber - bear grylls ultimate - Fixed bladed knife with high carbon stainless steel smooth edge - 3/4 tang Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews		60	120	255	240	8.5
Gerber LMF II Infantry fixed blade - Black serrated edge Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews also see: Gerber LMF II Infantry Survival Knife Review		130	125	280	330	7
White Hunter - 416 layers of Damascus steel - fixed Blade Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews also see: White Hunter Knife Review		90	160	280	748	9.5
Mora Heavy Duty Robust Companion Carbon 840mg - fixed blade that's 3.2mm thick [this is new for 2013 Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews also see: Mora Heavy Duty Knife Review		17	100	225	134	8.5
Handmade BUSHCRAFT Knife Genuine Stag Handle - fixed blade from carbon tool steel Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews		145	100	220		7.5
Tom Brown Tracker- 1095 high carbon alloy fixed blade Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews		160	180	330	921	8.5
Mora Heavy Duty Carbon Steel with longer tang and thicker fixed blade Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews		35	100	225	181	9
Buk Survival - Carbon 5061 Steel blade and powder coated finish Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews		165	140	280	335	9
Gerber Warrant - stainless partially serrated black titanium PVD coated tanto blade Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews also see: Gerber Warrant Tanto Fixed Blade Knife Review		75	120	240	340	8
Sog - Seal Pup Elite TiNi stainless steel coated fixed blade with Razor Edge Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews		80	125	230	155	8.5
Gerber -Bear Grylls Ultimate Pro - premium 9CR19MoV steel - Full tang Click here to view full details, prices and customer reviews also see: Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Pro Knife Review .		125	120	255	275	9

 

 

All the survival knives that I have listed above are very good quality and will do the job well, so it’s really a matter of personal preference really.

However, along with my other survival knives,  I have the Bear Grylls Ultimate, the reason – money – it certainly is very good value for money and a first class survival knife for any prepper - especially if this is your first survival knife,  and has so many good points I think I would say it’s the best all round survival knife for the money to add to your prepping survival kit, based on quality, design and cost.

- as always though – no prepper relies on just one survival knife…. - I cant make this point enough, always carry at least two survival knives that suit you and work best for you.

This is a very good video review of the Bear Grylls Ultimate. It shows why this knife is one of the very best, with some great feature you just don’t get on other survival knives.

Take a look and and I think you will see why I have one too.!

 

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I hope our guide to the Best Survival Knife for Doomsday Preparedness UK has helped you in your choice for a survival knife that suits you and becomes an essential part of you survival kit.