If I were on my laptop, I'd post a few memes of the owner slashing pigs with his swords.
You leave Lynn Thompson out of this! He is a genius and practically revolutionized the CIWCI (Composite Indian War Club Industry).
Survival is small game, small crafting ( snares , deadfalls), precise notching for shelter to stay together, and removing thorns and splinters,
try skinning a frog , mouse , small rabbit with a hawk or machate like blade
that festering thorn between your toes causing agonizing pain ? what use the machate to cut your foot off ?
and you would be suprised how much you need a dead strike on the pummel .
If you only had 1 knife to survive???
1 knife is what we are talking about correct ?
I would love to see your awesome skills remove a thorn (fishhook etc) from a sensitive area with a Machete.
and mora are awesome knives I own 5 use them for many tasks
but 1 knife , just 1
John Plaster still advocates the airforce survival knife in his courses<<< but I am sure he doesn't know how to use a hawke or a machete either
BTW, I don't go out in the woods nekkid, and Gringo didn't say what kind of TEOTWAKI event we're role playing here. I'm not too worried about removing fishhooks from my butt cheek when I'm riding the whale through post-apocalyptic Baton Rouge.
Well I'm not digging a fishhook out of my junk with one of your fancy Injun hatchets and I ain't letting you do it for me either.
Serrations
Agreed. Handy to have at rare times, but an insane pain in the ass to sharpen.