Ranking Survival Knife Brands (Over 20 Brands!!!!)

I am a Beckerhead, it is what a Becker fan is called. Amongst my many knives, I own a nearly complete collection of Beckers. They have never f ailed me in the boonies regardless of the task. I would trust them with my life. They hold their edges very well, easy to sharpen to near razor and even razor sharpness. Edges are easy to precisely maintain and the grip ergonomics of the handle are perfect for me. I use bicycle tubing for extra grip traction. Wonderful for combat and survival. They are reasonably priced and compete easily with knives two to three times the cost . The 1095 Cro Van is proprietary and a great alloy that easily beats out all other 1095 alloys. The key in sharpening is to stay true to the original factory blade angles. The handles have enough room to stash small emergency supplies. A hex wrench is easily purchased to fit the screw system of the handles and can be kept with the sheaths. I have one for each knife except my neck knives. I would like to try a Bark River in magnacut or maybe Esee in magnacut. I have a couple of Essees but am not very impressed. Chipping of the blade on my large Essee on the first day out and it required slight reprofiling and sharpening to restore. I haven't used it since and rely on my BK-9. Oh well, thanks for this excellent video and discussion. I look for more videos to come ! A friend always !

👍Nice selection. Cold Steel is currently my go to selection, Drop Forged Survivalist, SRK and SRK-C. Mostly because of availability and price in this part of the world.

Just bought a Joker knives Nomad and got to say it is Great !

Very informative video thanks. Your analysis will provide excellent reference for people who want to buy a knife. Love your top 3. The Pacific looks incredible. Shape reminds me a little of my SOG Navy Seal 2000. Cheers Dave 🇺🇸 🇳🇿

I really liked this video, very informative/subscribed

I'm glad you mentioned SRK 6 Cold Steel I just got mine this week there's new colors Tan and favorite Earth is a combination of tan and green color I just ordered a unclip for it. I must say that I really enjoyed your reviews on all these knives stay safe and God bless

Thanks for another review as solid and as useful as my beloved BK10.

Good video brother.took me over a year to get a half faced blade, and man I love this blade

Thanks for the sweet info dude!

I disagree with Buck and Gerber cuz my current survival knife I use is a Gerber prodigy fixed blade. And the knives I use for hunting are bucks. And I've used bucks in the past and they are my favorite brand.

Nice selection, I was surprised not to see TRC up there near the top though

The Spyderco you showed is the Bow River and it was designed to process game and fish. 420HC steel is a steel that a lot of people trash talk. The funny thing about 420HC is that it has CPM 3V levels of toughness and slightly better edge retention than 1095 when properly heat treated.

Yes, I own hundreds of knives. I will speak about some: 1. My experience is about 60 years. My bias is that I try not to buy something unless it is 10% better or I am just looking and evaluating. 2. Becker series. Agree with what you say. 3. Ka-bar. Have some. Not my first choice. As trading goods or for members of a survival group who totally lack skills. 4. Ontario. I have multiples of a discontinued model. Was the best available at the time. Gave one to my son to keep in his car. A true survival knife for someone who lacks nearly all survival skills. 5. Moras. Worked a lot with them. Modify sheaths. Modify knives. Gift them to relatives to keep in their cars. 6. Fallkniven. Decades ago, Cold Steel contracted for Fallkniven to make knives in Japan. When they stopped doing business together, Fallkniven did further design. When I was able to buy the A1 model for $125, I bought two. Not surprisingly, the distiributor failed and went out of business. This is the large survival knife. I have multiples of the F1. It is the only fixed blade of its length that, within the factory ugly sheath fits into a Brooks Bros. suit pants without printing. My Esse 4s can't do that. 7. Cold Steel The srk. Have multiples. The small srk-5 grip doesn't work for me. 8. Modern take offs of WW2 Navy knives. Whatever the designation like Mark 1, Mark2. Work horses with better handle today. 9. Esse. I already had knives as good as the 5 and 6. Have multiples of the 4. Nice behind the back horizontal carry. The 3 is to small for me.

Totally agree with your Top Three in that order!!

I will say. There are a couple Gerber I used a lmf in Afghanistan and it was a workhorse but I had to sharpen it often, couldn't break it, but not the worst

Great Video, thank you for the insight! Any thoughts on TOPS Knives for survival?

OKC Handel is on the large side which means you can fit it to your own hand with a little effort and a angle grinder. 1075 is much tougher than 1095 with similar edge retention. So it's a decent choice I would put OKC above mora for survival.

Bark River Bravo Series , and Esee are definitely my favorite fixed blades for hard usage. That would be freaking sick if they made Esee 3 , 4 , and 6 in CPM MAGNACUT. MKC has also been making some awesome knives. I own 3 so far and they are really good for thier desired utility.

Love the ESEE-6 and then an ESEE-4 in S35VN is a nice compliment. Looking forward to the Chris Reeve Backpacker too. Finding a Pacific is tough!

Nicely done. My personal favorite is the Falkniven F1 though it is not the best at batoning.