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Hm, any recommendation for that then?
It would be doing minimal wood chopping, a lot of fish gutting, and occasional animal skinning. |
A hatchet or kukri, and a skinner... for the fish, probably a decent paring knife.
Definitely not a Ka-Bar... though, they do have hunting knives.
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I was hoping I could somehow find a sorta all around blade to lighten my load. What is a very good mutli-purpose knife? Anything that ranges from self-defense to gutting fish and cutting wood. |
For the tasks that you mentioned you are going to have a minimum of two knives. If you want an all around blade, it is possible as long as you realize that you will lose efficiency in your different tasks.
For example, a thicker wood chopping, fire making blade can process a lot of wood for fires, shelter, etc. And while it can clean a fish, it will take a lot more finesse. And when you try to find a knife in between you may lose efficiency in the types of wood you can attack.
I would say get a good camp knife like a Bussekin, Rat cutlery, Fallkniven, Bark River, etc. (price ranges vary)
and get another thinner sharp knife for cleaning fish (these can be had on the cheap)