Hunting in the wild

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The U.S Air Force survival school has given intense survival training to each and every air crew member in the U.S.A.F. for 60 years and they train using two different knives. Like any good American bushcrafter I happen to have both of them here close at hand.

One is known as the Air Force Pilot Survival Knife. It is a 12cm blade 1.75mm thick heavy knife with a stacked leather washer handle.

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The other knife they use is the one referenced by CH, as M-818. That knife has been issued to U.S. forces since WW1 equipped with various handle materials.

An identical model using varying handle materials was adopted by the Boy Scouts one year after the group was founded.

The training of millions of men and the real life experiences of each of them prove the usefulness and validity of good quality knives of those general types.

It might also be noted that people training other people professionally after more than half century of experience and evaluation recommend and issue TWO knives as a cutting system, not depending on any one knife to do all things.

There is a third knife issued in the survival kits of every pilot in the U.S. forces as well as in all the heavy duty survival and medical kits issued in combat areas. It is a simple razor knife made by the Derma Safe Company. While most "bushcrafters" would not consider buying on as a primary tool I is considered "better than nothing" for those facing death in the wilderness.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Derma-Safe-Fo...or&veh=sem