Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire What Knife do you carry in your BUG out Bag?

Victorinox Classic and attached P38 can opener... because nothing can ruin a good bug-out quite like a bad pedicure or stubborn can of caviar.

Knívleysur maður er lívleysur maður.

Well tks, excellent knives, beautiful too, but do they come in blaze orange?

Over the years, especially when doing bird surveys, I got to the point that I would tie short lengths of orange flagging tape to my compass, binocs, keys, GPS etc before setting off for a long day in the woods, all the stuff I picked up and set down regularly. During the course of long, hot days in the brush spent in sort of a hurry, fatigue would set in and once in a while I'd forget something and have to go back for it. Ya ever try to find a RealTree wallet sitting on leaf litter? Worst ever was when I set down a brand new $500 pair of premium Romanian (??) military optics down when I sat down to rest on a steep rocky hillside in 105F heat and didn't realize I no longer had them until I was about 200 yards of thick brush away. Never could find them again, and that was only the second or third time I had even used them.

Actually, with the Mora I think a blaze orange sheath too is a bit much but I could switch that out later.

I wasn't aware of Mora knives until this thread, I'm impressed; no bullspit, well thought-out tools for use in the woods. Turns out not everything inexpensive is cheap.

Maybe fifty years ago in England I bought a sheath knife (as we called 'em back then) for my older brother, it has a laminate wooden handle topped with a brass horse's head, no crossguard at all. Something was etched on the blade in small script rather than block letters. He still has it, he's up in NY State but based upon the blade shape and general configuration I believe its prob'ly a Mora. I believe it came from Sweden and even back then I was surprised at the relatively low cost for the quality.