What are the differences between a survival knife and a fighting knife?

The answer is in the name itself. Would you bring a knife to a gunfight? In Modern Warfare primary weapon of a soldier is a rifle. A survival knife is designed to be an all-purpose knife that can keep you alive a fighting knife is designed to be a knife either all purpose or specifically designed to kill with. In my opinion the best fighting knives in Modern Combat are Italian type knives. In the 1600. Italians went maniacal with dueling. They used swords and knives. A Bowie knife was originally made because the fellow was almost gored to death by a bull. He wanted something that would keep him alive. It was more of a fighting knife then a survival knife. But it was also a survival knife. The kabata’s were made primarily as fighting knives. A k bar got its name because the fellow who bought one supposedly killed a bear with it. Would you call that a fighting knife a combat knife or a survival knife? The Green Berets knives are more multiple purpose as are the Swiss Army knives. The Fairbanks knife was patented after the Italian knives that was used in trench warfare. When you put a knife at the end of a rifle it is a bayonet . Bayonets are used more as a polearm a combination ax and spear. The Italians would sneak into enemy trenches in World War 1 and quietly kill their opponents with knives. This would be a fighting knife not a combat knife. Do you understand the difference now? Survival knife used to survive. Combat knife used to survive and occasionally for combat. Fighting knife used almost exclusively in a knife fight. Now here’s the the question which one would you cut your vegetables with? I guess you could throw at work knife into that category 2 and cooking knife. I work knife being what you would shoe sheepsfoot or cut laminated tile or maybe even cut Sheetrock. Would you take a fillet knife into combat? It’ll wrap around the bone and cut the skin right off and muscles like butter. But it wouldn’t be very good for throwing or stopping someone from stabbing you with. Would you fight a bull with a fillet knife? Or bear? Fillet knives are designed to be razor sharp to take flesh off the bone. Can’t throw them can’t block with them and if you hit bone it would probably break. Machetes more like mini swords. Great for chopping coconuts. I think a hatchet would do a better job though. And the most important thing weight slightly less more bang for the buck. Machetes are fun though. Everybody should have at least three one to just destroy. I used to use mine for target practice and weed destruction. I had a trick I used to do where I would put an apple in somebody’s hand chop the Apple in half with a machete. And then take the same machete put a board long ways standing up with an apple on top of a cinder block. And then chop through the Apple the board and the cinder block. After you do that once most people don’t want to put their hand back under the Apple. The difference is give and take. It’s a very easy trick to do if you know how to use a machete a butter knife can cut a carrot. All you do is barely tapped the apple and the resistance in the hand. The knife if you want to go through that hand you just have to hit it past the resistance. Not a hard trick at all. I don’t recommend trying it though you would probably lose a finger or half your hand. But despite the fact that the machetes can be very intimidating and can be deadly. They are not survival knives nor are they combat or even fighting knives. The best use for machete is gardening. But of course this is just my opinion.

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