Just picked up a handful of these puppies.
Yeah...I know...
"Its not full tang."
OK, I'm not using it as a hatchet.
"Its grip is injection molded."
OK, so is a Heckler and Koch.
"Its prone to rust."
OK, I'll try not to leave it outside.


The thing is as sharp as the devils tongue, the grip is almost sticky when wet, the sheath is virtually indestructible and its $13 bucks.
Did I mention is really, really sharp?
I've owned some Helle, some Wilson's, some C.Reeves, and some customs by ROEasler and Ronnie Gaskins. All very beautiful works. Each has its benifots.
But as a Siple tool, doing what a knife is designed to do...this it the peaches.

It is a good tool. Amazing how good they are for the price, I found them by accident and risk $10 to try one. I am way too tight to buy a custom knife that I would be afraid to use. Bought a Spyderco a couple years ago, still am very careful about how it is used, and that is a $70 plastic handled production knife.

I love Mora's. The best knife for <$15.00 that you can buy. Easy to sharpen too. I like that scandi grind. It's like using training wheels to sharpen the edge. I do wish they would make a bigger variety of patterns. How cool would a Mora drop point be?

i like these

come in both stainless and carbon




~ $13 on ebay.

lose em, lend em, drop em in the water.

This.

Has to be the best value to performance deal in all the knifeworld.

After using a simple Mora drop point, hunters would be leaving their Buck and Gerbers at home.

These are very popular with deer stalkers over here in the UK..I have a couple as "beater" knives..In all the years I have been stalking, I have never heard of one failing because its not full tang either..

I keep one in all the vehicles.

I have never warmed up to Mora knives. The blades are too small, not enough height, handles too little.
Might be good knives for the money, but I don't mind spending a little more money for a better knife.

I actually dislike just about everything about their styling and "feel", *but* they work very well, and they are cheap enough to be almost disposable. As I say I keep some about as "beaters" that I don't mind lending out...

"Loaners" and "beaters" is what the under-$20 Cold Steel knives are intended for. The Canadian Belt Knife and Pendleton Light Hunter styles work well and if you lose one, well you've lost something without much value, about the cost of a California Roll lunch at the local sushi place. Not so with a good factory knife, like a Buck 105, or a custom knife from Mr. Ingram, Mr. King, or Mr. Murr.

I prefer the Companion over the Pro series mentioned above..... you gain .6" blade length, but more importantly (for me) it is also 33% thicker steel. I take a Dremel, and put some jimping on the back of mine, as well as flat the remainder of the spine, to give a hard, square edge for striking my ferro-rod. my 2 cents.... maybe worth less. Ok- back in my hole.

I'll tell you this much, I cleaned a mess of trout a few hours ago with one and it smoked through them like a laser and when I put the knife down in the shallows it was instantly visible. Hard to beat for an ego free, sharp out of the box, durable under 15 buck knife.

The Rapala and Normark fillet knives are also good.