>>509287>-Do I really need to baton.. is there enough of an advantage to make it worth the energy expenditure and potential damage to my knife?>-If the answer to the previous is yes, then Is my knife up to the task of what I'm about to baton?Exactly.
It's no wonder if people do stupid things. I've been watching all these survival shows and it's really sad how you learn nothing by watching them. The knife in the pic is designed by the idiot on the show, pretty much sums up his expertise in survival. (I know this because there was an article on a magazine) There is nothing wrong with cutting steel wire with a knife, knife steel is harder and strong enough to cut through the wire, but hitting a knife with a rock against a rock? Things like this are done all the time on these shows.
What really bugs me is that I'm too seen as an idiot here whenever I say batoning is a skill and it's all thanks to these tv-personalities. There is the right way to baton, like batoning instead of swinging a knife as if it was a hatchet. Then there is the wrong way, like splitting huge logs with a knife and then there are these tv-personalities.
