Morakniv Fixed Blade Outdoor Knife

This is such an incredible value that you should push "buy it now", and only then finish reading this review. When I wrote this, Amazon had black for $13 and change, and it arrived in two days via Prime. This is the knife you should take camping and hiking. It will slice food, shave tinder for a fire, cut the wood for your emergency shelter and cut a lethal spear for hunting quite quickly, or a bow and arrow or fire drill with more work; hunt, slaughter humanely (with a cut that complies with Kosher or Halal), defend yourself with lethal force. It will hold an edge and you can sharpen it - although that won't be necessary very often. You won't have to oil it after every use like the carbon steel version, and you won't pull it out for your next trip only to find that it's rusted. This is 100% quality and value, and 0% presumption: Made in Sweden out of excellent stainless steel by an old company that's preserved its principles and defined this style of knife. It doesn't come with a fancy brand name and the designer's name at the start of the product name, like so many "designer" knives today. It's just a Mora-style knife made by Mora of Sweden, from Sandvik of Sweden's most well-rounded knife steel. It's made with modern manufacturing processes, isn't handmade and doesn't have the metalsmith's initials struck into it. So, are you willing to carry a second, heavy knife to pair with this one for batoning, prying apart a deer's hip joint, and breaking and entering if that's what it takes to survive? Lots of people pair the Mora with the Ka-Bar BK2, which is more expensive but still a bargain. But if you want to continue the theme of 100% quality and 0% presumption, consider the Sheffield of England-made Footprint Tools Hacking Knife. It's a 1/4 inch thick hunk of carbon steel with a wicked sharp edge, and the back of the blade deliberately left un-hardened and finished rough because it's meant to be struck with a hammer! Ugly as sin, astonishingly cheap with the leather sheath at $27 and change here on Amazon, and able to cut mild steel and lesser metals, brick, wood, PVC pipe, you name it. Want a third cutting instrument? The Laplander saw. Same principles and value, and will educate you about what you've been missing with lesser saws.