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I have a ruck full of them around somewhere.
For folders, least expensive to most expensive, I like the Spyderco Endura (best bang for the buck), Benchmade AFCK Axis Lock 810 in D2, the Harsey Combat Folder by Lone Wolf, and the CRK Sebenza.
For fixed blades, it depends on the mission. I like to carry a heavy blade for chopping and a smaller blade for utility work.
In the choppers, I like a machete, a Camp Axe/Cruiser Axe, or a Kukri, depending on the METT-T.
For utility fixed blades, I started with the Kabar, which is an excellent knife for the money, bought a Gerber Mk 2, moved up to a Cold Steel Trailmaster, an Al Mar fixed blade SERE, a cheapie mini-version of an Al Mar Kukri, and now have a Yarborough knife.
I also admit to liking a Glock e-tool for light digging and sawing, but give me the old hickory handled e-tool with the pick on the opposite side if the digging is going to be tough.
I would not mind adding a Smatchet one day, if it is as useful as I have heard, an Applegate-Fairbairn in S-30V, or a longer version of the Yarborough.
My dream fighter is a Brend #2 10" in D2 (shorter version below).
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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