The knife you want on you when SHTF

It's difficult to have to choose, so I have several sets of knives I set into kits and they each follow these parameters:

• One should be for skinning
• One must be general purpose/utility
• One should be a backup skinning blade or backup utility

I keep these knives in a main storage container in sets of 3 like this, and pretty much leave it this way. I do, however have a folder I keep on me as an EDC which would most likely be my SHTF primary until I can get to my stash.

Bark River, Fox River in A2 with orange pine cone handle. Excellent skinning blade with a full convex edge.


Buck 110 folder - Gifted to me by Mountainman. This would serve as a utility blade. Notice the edge variation

This is a little custom mini skinner made by Richards knives for me. It's a very small and chunky full convex blade made from D2.

Of course, the EDC these days has been the Paramilitary lightweight. It's perhaps the best folder I have ever carried daily because I don't even know I have it with me.


So, the one blade I will have on me will most likely be the one. If I had to choose between them, I would go with the Bark River because it's the largest. Plus, folders are rather easy to come by compared to a perfectly crafted fixed blade with a convex skinning edge.