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So welcome back everyone. Today
We will be doing a comprehensive review on the cheapest survival knife on Amazon. So here's the criteria
What I'm looking for is I was looking for the cheapest fixed blade knife
And it had to have a couple things. Four star rating or better and at least ten reviews so you might say well
I found cheaper knives or I can find cheaper knives than this
Actually not within those criteria not at the time of this filming
so
Let's take a look, let's take a look. What's it say on the box here? So
I know there were some directions. Oh here we go. There was a warning.
"This knife has extreme sharp edges use caution when" well
We will see, we will see. It would be nice that it is very nice that they
Put a nice sharp edge on it for us so we don't have to go to the trouble
Now I must say I was a bit over- underwhelmed. I was expecting it to be a lot bigger
This is actually a small knife it. It looked like a big knife
I thought was going to be kind of like they remember the old buck navy seal knife well, let's get into it
so we got a
Stainless Steel knife
with
Pretty much your garden-variety black plastic or Cordura sheath
Belt loop, it's fine. No big deal and
kind of that classic design
We've got some serrations on there always wondered what those were for some people say they're for sawing
I've never found them to be very useful for sawing and then some serrations here as well
Not very effective as for it being sharp. Let's see well
The paper doesn't Lie. Let's see
You know what it's actually
Not it's not razor-sharp
But it's not I've seen worse. It's not bad
So one thing that surprised me. I guess I didn't realize when I'd ordered it was of course
It's got a it's got a hollow handle
Oh, it's got a compass in it
is it going to compass, does it work ?
I always am a little bit suspicious of compasses that are set in metal bezels
I don't know how that works, so if you well you I can tell you north. What's this?
There's a capsule inside of there. Did it came out of there ?
Thats also a nice surprise. I wonder what's in there.
So North is this direction. I can tell you because I know it so let's see
Come on. Sometimes they hang up there a little bit. It's pointing this direction so compass
Wouldn't wouldn't put a whole lot of faith in that hopefully there's something better in this little capsule
Something interesting I had no idea that was in there
All right, well just keeps getting better doesn't it?
Get through our tabletop review here
We'll take it out and put it through its paces and see how it stands up in the in
the real world and the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest so
We have here we have a mini survival kit
You're very tiny survival kit. What have they given us here in this
Little plastic bag
So we have some fishing line. We have some probably I would guess
15 pound test fishing line, we have a
striker for our matches
We have a fish hook
Look at that. Is it barbed it is we have a barbed fish hook. We have a needle and thread
so first needle I've ever
Does we have a point on it. There's two
They're just they're they're just switched we have a needle and thread with a little bit of card cardboard
And that's it
Interesting well that will certainly be handy when we go out and try to survive with this knife next
It hasn't had all of that. We can sew on a button if need be
We could even catch a trout
Think we can catch a trout with that
We'll see all right one fish hook. Don't lose it. Don't
Lose that fish hook okay, so inside. I was thinking this was going to be more of a full tang knife
But if I look inside there can we see nope you can't see I can see that
It's held on with a small nut so there is a small threaded
Rod that goes on here in here, and then is tightened down with a nut of course the capsule goes back inside
the
useless Compass
and
That completes the whole package bill fit and finish. Let me see here. I'm a little bit suspicious of this
this Connection point
There is a little bit of movement right there. Can you hear it?
maybe not
No, you gotta
Hmm
We'll see you never really know we'll take it out and chop on it and see what happens there
But overall the fit and finish looks pretty good. We've got a knurled handle here. We've got a rubber o-ring
I'm sure the intent of that is to keep our survival kit our matches our three Matches
nice, and dry
So we don't get into trouble
But there you have it all right?
Well, I don't think there's a whole lot more to cover on the tabletop
I think it's time to take it up into the field and
see
What it can do?
So it's time to move on to our field test portion of the cheapest survival knife on Amazon
I brought my faithful russian L count heart racer here to look after things while we're doing our test
Make sure nothing slips up on me
So before we get to the Batani let's check out
The compass as the compass may be decided to start working for us
North of course is towards you guys and
It actually says that it's South so
Unfortunately, we're not going to be able to rely upon the compass
But we do have our survival kit
Which one thing that I failed to mention in the tabletop review is that I found was there's a lead sinker
There's a lead sinker with our fishhook
That will come in handy
It's easy to catch fish with a fish hook and a little piece of leader alright, so we have three Matches
We have three tries where they say third time's the charm
We have three tries to get a fire lit now unfortunately
I don't have any dryer lip with me here today
but usually if I search hard enough in the bottom front pocket of the tin pants there's always some sort of
Organic material of some sort so I don't know if we can get that to light, but we'll give it a shot here
So we have three tries
Boy, can you imagine?
You imagine the anxiety if you were really lost, and it was all down to this let's see try number one. Oh there we go
and of course
Tin pants are always ready for a survival situation look at that right there
That's that is organic material from inside my pocket so the tin pant litter didn't take all that well
Let's try with a little bit of leaf litter this unfortunate that match doesn't look too good
All right, so let's say that we needed to start a fire day 2
Just as I suspected that was not a good looking match last one. Oh
No, well, that's unfortunate
Especially it would be very unfortunate
If you found yourself relying upon it Vitani is the ultimate test for the survival knife mainly a survival knife have not passed this test
I've broken Knives many knives doing this from quality manufacturers
K-Bar
Gerber Kershaw just to name a few
All right, so batana if you don't know is the process of using your survival knife to split wood
All right, so we'll put it up on here
We've got a piece of hard cherry about two inches in diameter very dry a tough test for a survival knife
It's a hard one. It's a hard one a lot of vibration from the handle
Will it make it?
boy, that's a hard one a
It's a little small
Okay
Okay, let's keep going here
Starting to show some signs of weakness. I'm afraid
Okay, test wouldn't be complete unless. We did it did four quarters here, right?
Sorry to hear it jingle jangle there. What's that all about? Oh?
Who the blade is hot hot to the touch from all that friction?
That doesn't look good
Now for our final test a knife throat now a good survival knife should have the the perfect balance of blade and handle
So that it slips free from the hand and can be used as a defensive weapon
balanced on the Survivor knife
Not so good
Did I reach?
Stainless steel us a custom-designed hand forged in China hand forged is it
number one
It's a surprisingly good throwing knife at three and five paces
So some final thoughts
you know what's the ratings on this knife the Amazon ratings at
Over one hundred over five four stars four stars or so I had high expectations
But as we can see from our thorough testing. This is not a survival knife at all
This is garbage however. I was surprised
How good how well the balance was for throwing I almost couldn't not get it to stick into a tree
So that was kind of fun, but what use is that when it completely falls apart?
So I guess what have we learned what we've learned is at seven dollars you
cannot get a
Survival knife at least on Amazon anyway, all right. We'll keep trying with our budget survival gear series and
next time I have something very exciting and
Hopefully we have better results. Don't miss my previous video on testing the cheapest axe on Amazon and
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