rant coming:
To my experience, the "workhorse" of outdoor, bushcraft, and hunting knives is a simple, 4 inch (5 at maximum) blade.
The whole point od big knives, like the BK7, Kukri, or pic related, is that they can be used in lieu of a hatchet, to chop and baton wood, and still function as a knife (cutting, slicing, making feathersticks etc.).
There's a reason the "traditional" outdoor setup (as demonstrated by 18th and 19th century frontiersmen) used a small pocket knife (for whittling, etc.), a butchering knife (for working game) and a hatchet (for processing wood).
Strictly speaking, for things like cutting cordage, opening packs or whatever and food prep, someting like an Izula (2.75 inch blade) will be plenty - the only time it could come up short, is when trying to cut through something larger than the blade - most likely bread.
"Survival" knives are a relatively modern invention. Like I said earlier - they were born of the need to have a knife, that can be used to chop and baton wood when a hatchet isn't around, "just in case".
The point of carrying one, when you could bring a hatchet, is specifically not to.
For me, my Izula would do the majority of my work, while the tracker would fill the blanket "everything else" category, in case the Izula fell short.
>>553503>>553507>>553511I have one and it's a very decent knife - If you can, go for the "elite" version without serrations (the regular seal pup only comes with a combo edge), but definetely a knife you can beat up without regret (unlike my BM bone collector, which is probably my most pampered blade, on account of not being produced anymore).
