Air Force Survival Knife

Okay, so I've been thinking of getting a really nice knife. I've been looking around for awhile and got it narrowed down to these three...

The Ka-Bar 2-1212-3
http://www.amazon.com/Ka-Bar-2-1212-3-Bl ack-Fighting-Knife/dp/B000BSY9D0/ref=sr_ 1_1?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid =1263259204&sr=1-1

The Gerber 22-41121 Prodigy
http://www.amazon.com/Gerber-22-41121-Pr odigy-Survival-Combat/dp/B000XH5H6W/ref= pd_sim_sg_96

And the Ontario Spec Plus Air-Force Survival Knife
http://www.amazon.com/Spec-Plus-Air-Forc e-Survival/dp/B0015U4XQG/ref=sr_1_36?ie= UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=126325 8716&sr=1-36

I'm leaning towards the Ka-Bar, but I wanna ask people who've owned one or more of these knives what they think.

Thanks

I carried a Ka-Bar similar to the one you are thinking about for the year I was in Vietnam. It served me well.

With 22 years active duty Air Force behind me you can be assured I have handled a couple of their survival knives. They look fine but you will notice no part of the blade is serrated. That is not an issue for me as I am capable of sharpening a knife but if you aren't maybe you should look elsewhere.

Now that I am a civilian again and buy my own stuff, I carry nothing but Gerber. It is a problem some times as I don't want the serrated blades but so far I have been able to fill my needs from the Gerber line up.

You have selected three fine tools, any one of which will serve you well. I suggest you get each one in your hand and feel it. That will be the deciding factor. Buy the one that becomes part of you. Hint: Hold the damn thing in both hands. If it feels awkward in either hand move on to the next one on the list.

Cheers

GIMP

2010-01-11 17:37:36 by Frydham

The Ontario SP2 Air Force survival knife is a great little camp knife for the price. With the price tag of $35 to $40 it would be the idea tool ...

I think i am going to join the air force but i dont know what kind of job i want to go into. I was thinking about three different jobs, orthopedic surgen(officer), engenering apprentice(enlisted), or Survival Evasion, Resistance And Escape Operations Apprentice(enlisted). I am intrested in all of the previous with a good amout of knowledge in each.(for me when i go camping i like to go survival[bring a knife and the clothes on your back], so SERE isn't as farfetched as it sounds). if you could give me insight that would be swell. (also, in case you have any coments about airforce, good or bad, please let me know)

SERE is about much much more than living out in the woods for a few days camping. I've been thru SERE training 3 times now and I can 100% say I hated every seconed of it. First of all, the SERE cadre basically treats you like a crap... It's hard to deal with... and trust me after the SERE training is over none of the prisoners will want to even look at you again... The first one I went thru was when I was on a Reserve Drill training for 2 weeks.
Basically it was myself and the 8 maintnence unit guys Sittin in the mock pow camp for 5 days going thru psychological torment. They gave us crap to eat, crap to drink (ya i got horribly sick with the flu or somthing on my 5th day) and they basically acted like all out asses.
Nobody in my maint unit was happy after it was over.. we hated the SERE cadre, we hated our C.O. and pretty much hated being there for our next week. No we didn't volunteer for it (commander did that for us). All i can say about SERE is if you like acting like big nuts badass to fellow soldiers signup, but don't be suprised if you get fraged some day.

2006-10-03 21:04:27 by GЯΣΣК