The Best Survival Knife Guide
When it comes to choosing the perfect survival knife for your needs, it all comes down to some of the following factors.
- Price
- What is the knife for primarily?
- Knife / Blade Size
- Manufacturer
So we decided to create the largest and best survival knife guide for you to easily filter and find the perfect survival knife. We will continue to update this page so bookmark it and keep coming back to check on the new knives as we add more of them.
ESEE Knives Izula-II Fixed Blade Knife 1095 Carbon Steel Blade Micarta Handle
Buck Knives Vantage Force Select Black Tactical Folding Knife
Buck Nobleman Folding Knife
Buck Knives 120 General Fixed Blade Knife
Buck Knives BBW Assisted Opening Folding Knife
Buck Knives Compadre Camp Fixed Blade Knife
Buck Knives Matt Would Go Fixed Blade Tactical Knife
Buck Knives Special Fixed Blade Knife 75th Anniversary Edition
Buck Knives Sentry Fixed Blade Tactical Knife
Buck Knives Reaper Black Fixed Blade Survival Knife
Buck Knives Selkirk Folding Knife
Buck Knives QuickFire Assisted Opening Folding Knife
Buck Knives Rush Folding Knife, Aluminum Handle
Buck Knives Redpoint Rescue Tactical Folding Knife
Buck Knives Bones Partially Serrated
ESEE Junglas Blade with Kydex Sheath and Canvas Micarta Handles
ESEE Lite Machete Micarta Handles and Sheath
ESEE Izula Knife with Sheath
ESEE Candiru Molded Sheath
ESEE Camp-Lore Cody Rowen Fixed Blade Bushcraft Knife - CR2.5
ESEE RB3 Camp-Lore Fixed Blade Bushcraft Knife
ESEE Camp-Lore Gibson JG3 Knife Bushcraft Fixed Blade
ESEE -3 Plain Edge Blades with Micarta Handles
ESEE -4 Plain Edge with Black Sheath Black Blades and Micarta Handle
ESEE Knives ESEE-5P Black Plain Edge
ESEE-5 Serrated Edge Blade
ESEE -6 Plain Edge with Canvas Micarta Handles Dark Earth Blade
FIRSTEDGE 5050-5055 SURVIVAL KNIFE
Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife
Gerber Prodigy Survival Knife, Serrated Edge
Gerber Covert Knife, Serrated Edge
Ka-Bar Becker BK9 Combat Bowie Fixed Blade Knife
Maxam SKSUV11 Fixed Blade Survival Knife with Sheath
Maxam SKJSK Survival Knife
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ESEE Knives Izula-II Fixed Blade Knife 1095 Carbon Steel Blade Micarta Handle
Overall Length: 6.75″
Blade Length: 2.63″
Thickness: .156″
Steel: 1095 Carbon
Weight: 3.2 Oz. w/o Sheath
Finish: Textured Powder Coat
Grind: Flat
Molded Sheath & Clip Plate
Pommel: Carabiner Hole
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Buck Knives Vantage Force Select Black Tactical Folding Knife
- Closed length: 4-3/8 inch,
- Weight: 4.3 oz. (122.4 g)
- Blade Length: 3-1/4 inch
- Handle: Glass Reinforced Nylon
- Blade: Drop Point
This beautiful tactic folding knife come with a Drop Point 420HC Steel Blade with Black Oxide Coating, Packed with the latest in tactical design and innovation, the flipper facilitates ultra-fast and smooth opening. The black heavy duty Textured Reinforced Nylon handle for tight grip.
Made in the USA. -
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Buck Nobleman Folding Knife
- Closed length: 3-3/4 inch,
- Weight: 2.6 oz. (74 g)
- Blade Length: 2 5/8 inch
- Handle: Carbon fiber
- Blade: Clip Point
This imported knife comes with Drop Point 440A Stainless Steel Blade with a thumb stud facilitates one hand opening.
Brushed Stainless Steel Handle with EDM Texture and Removable Deep pocket Carry Clip. -
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Buck Knives 120 General Fixed Blade Knife
- Overall length: 12 inch,
- Weight: 8.3 oz. (235.3 g)
- Blade Length: 7-3/8 inch
- Handle: Dymondwood or Phenolic
- Blade: Clip Point
This Large Clip Blade with 420HC Steel is great on the farm and in the bush. Great choice for a general outdoor knife for tasks like De-boning, Detail Work and Cutting in tight places. Includes Genuine Leather Fitted Sheath for safe and secure transportation on your belt or in a bag.
Made in the USA. -
Buck Knives BBW Assisted Opening Folding Knife
- Closed length: 3-3/4 inch,
- Weight: 1.5 oz. (42.7 g)br> - Blade Length: 2-3/4 inch
- Handle: Injection-Molded
- Blade: Drop Point
This knife is made of Drop Point 420HC Steel Blade with Excellent Strength and Edge Retention. Easy Handling, It's lightweight and a Thumb stud on the blade for easy one hand deployment. The Textured Handle with Ridges at the top for a secure and well balanced grip.
Made in the USA. -
Buck Knives Compadre Camp Fixed Blade Knife
- Overall length: 9-1/2 inch,
- Weight: 7.1 oz. (213.5 g)
- Blade Length: 4-1/2 inch
- Handle: Dymondwood
- Blade: Drop Point
This knife was designed and engineered with the outdoor enthusiast in mind. It's easy to carry with Heritage Walnut Dymondwood Handle and Genuine Black Leather Sheath, with belt loop attachment.
Made in USA, -
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Buck Knives Matt Would Go Fixed Blade Tactical Knife
- Overall length: 9 inch,
- Weight: 6.3 oz. (179.4 g)
- Blade Length: 4 inch
- Handle: Micarta
- Blade: Drop Point
This knife comes with a 4" drop point blade with Black Powder Coated Finish. 5160 Carbon Steel blade has excellent shock absorbing properties making it resilient to shattering and extremely durable. Beautiful Custom Camouflage-like Micarta Handle with combat point on the tip. Includes Textured Kydex Snap-in adjustable Sheath with Tek-lok belt clip that can be adjusted for left or right carry in the horizontal or vertical position.
Made in the USA. -
Buck Knives Special Fixed Blade Knife 75th Anniversary Edition
- Overall length 10-1/2 inch,
- Weight 7.5 oz. (213.5 g)
- Blade Length 6 inch
- Handle: Dymondwood or Phenolic
- Blade: Clip Point
Created to celebrate 75 years of the famous 119 Special! This solid Fixed Blade Knife is great for the outdoors, detail work and cutting in tight places. The anniversary edition 119 Special features a custom medallion in the handle and a 75th anniversary blade stamp. Includes genuine leather fitted sheath also features an embossed anniversary logo.
Made in the USA. -
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Buck Knives Sentry Fixed Blade Tactical Knife
- Overall length 9.5 inch,
- Weight 6.6 oz. (187.9 g)
- Blade Length 5 inch
- Handle: injection-molded
- Blade: Clip and Serrated
Made in USA, this Buck knife comes with a partially serrated blade with non reflective black traction coating. You can expect the usual excellent strength, edge retention, and corrosion resistance from its 420HC steel.
Serrations add extra cutting ability, the full tang blade with blade guard makes this knife safe, tough and reliable.
With its advanced Edge2x blade technology (it's Buck Knives' proprietary edging technology), textured injection bolded nylon black handle, and includes heavy duty M.O.L.L.E. compatible sheath. -
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Buck Knives Reaper Black Fixed Blade Survival Knife
- Overall length 11 inch
- Weight 8.5 oz
- Blade Length 6-3/4"
- Handle: injection-molded
This Buck knife has drop point blade with black traction coating. It's made of 420HC Steel so you can expect the excellent strength, edge retention, and corrosion resistance.
Full Tang Construction, Optimal survival knife for general tasks, and maximum protection and comes with a heavy duty nylon sheath for safe and secure carry. Made in USA.
Some customers not recommending this knife for battoning thick branches because it caused the knife to fail. It seems to work well on other applications like splitting, feathering, and other basic knife needs out in the field. -
Buck Knives Selkirk Folding Knife
- Closed length 4.25 inch, Weight 4.5 oz
- Blade Length 3 1/4" (8.2 cm)
This imported knife with 3.25 drop point blade made from 420HC steel that has great strength, edge retention, and corrosion resistance. It's stylish brown/black CNC contoured micarta handle makes this stand out in a cloud of knives and comes with a pocket clip for easy convenient carry ideal for general, everyday use. -
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Buck Knives QuickFire Assisted Opening Folding Knife
- Closed Length 4-1/4 3.5 oz
- An assisted-opening knife for fast opening
- Drop point blade with a durable locking design to enforce in the open or closed blade position.
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Buck Knives Rush Folding Knife, Aluminum Handle
- Overall Length 3-3/4" 2.4 oz.
- Blade Length 2 1/2" (6.4 cm).
- Handle: Aluminum
- Including a Pocket Clip for easy carry.
This switchblade knife use a button/lever in the handle to release the blade and the blade cannot be moved at all without entirely opening the knife -
Buck Knives Redpoint Rescue Tactical Folding Knife
- 4-3/8" inches closed, 2.9 oz
- Both drop point and Serrated
- Blade Length 2 3/4" (7 cm).
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Buck Knives Bones Partially Serrated
- 4-5/8" Closed Length, 4.4 oz
- Blade Length 3" (7.6 cm)
- A frame-lock design, but it’s still lightweight and medium-sized.
- Modified tanto blade ideal for piercing, scraping, and prying with tough materials.
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ESEE Junglas Blade with Kydex Sheath and Canvas Micarta Handles
Overall Length: 16.5″
Cutting Edge Length: 9.75″
Overall Blade Length: 10.38″
Blade Width: 2.0″
Weight (Knife Only): 23 Ounces
Maximum Thickness: .188″
1095 Carbon Steel
Removable Micarta Handles
Hammer Pommel w/ Lanyard Hole
The knife Junglas is named after the Colombian police “JUNGLA” (Pronounced “Hoonglas.”) Compañía Jungla Antinarcóticos special operations forces and was originally designed as a cross between a fixed blade knife and a machete to be employed in Latin American jungle and counter-narcotics operations.
Today it is widely used by counter-narcotics operators, adventurers and woodsmen globally. -
ESEE Lite Machete Micarta Handles and Sheath
Overall Length: 23.25″
Cutting Edge Length: 15.0″
Overall Blade Length: 17.25″
Blade Maximum Width: 2.38″
Weight (Knife Only): 18 Ounces
Maximum Thickness: .080″
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ESEE Izula Knife with Sheath
Overall Length: 6.25″
Blade Length: 2.63″
Thickness: .156″
Steel: 1095 Carbon (Carbon Steel Models)
Steel: 440C (Stainless Steel Models)
Weight: 2.0 Oz. w/o Sheath
Finish: Textured Powder Coat (Carbon Steel Models)
Grind: Flat
Molded Sheath w/ Clip Plate
Pommel: Carabiner Hole
Optional Handle Scales -
ESEE Candiru Molded Sheath
Overall Length: 5.13″
Cutting Edge Length: 2.0″
Weight: 1.7 Ounces
Drop Point Blade Style
Maximum Thickness: .125″
1095 Carbon Steel – 55-57 Rc.
Textured Powder Coat Finish
Skeletonized Handle
Molded Sheath w/ Clip Plate -
ESEE Camp-Lore Cody Rowen Fixed Blade Bushcraft Knife - CR2.5
Overall Length: 6.25″
Maximum Blade Thickness: .125″
Weight (Knife Only): 2.5 oz
1095 Uncoated Steel
Micarta Handle
Leather Pouch Sheath -
ESEE RB3 Camp-Lore Fixed Blade Bushcraft Knife
Overall Length: 8.13″
Maximum Blade Thickness: .125″
Weight (Knife Only): 6 oz
1095 Uncoated Blade Steel
Micarta Handle
Scandi Grind
Leather Pouch Sheath
Designed by talented Reuben Bolieu who is a writer, photographer, adventurer, and martial arts trainer (Muay Thai). With more than 30 years of hiking and backpacking experience under his belt, you can imagine how much thoughts have been put into designing this knife. -
ESEE Camp-Lore Gibson JG3 Knife Bushcraft Fixed Blade
Overall Length: 7.63″
Maximum Blade Thickness: .125″
Weight (Knife Only): 4.5 oz
1095 Uncoated Blade Steel
Micarta Handle
Flat Grind
Leather Pouch Sheath
Designed by a native east Tennessean James Gibson who obtained his Journeymen Smith Rating with the American Bladesmith Society (A.B.S.) in 2003. -
ESEE -3 Plain Edge Blades with Micarta Handles
Overall Length: 8.31″ (Standard Model)
Overall Length: 8.19″ (Modified Pommel)
Cutting Edge Length: 3.38″
Overall Blade Length: 3.88″
Maximum Thickness: .125″
1095 Carbon Steel, 55 – 57 Rc.
Weight: 5.2 Ounces (Knife Only)
Weight: 9.3 Ounces (Knife w/ Sheath)
Finish: Uncoated & Powder Coated
Handles: Micarta & G10
Sheath: Molded w/ Clip Plate (Color depends on model)
MOLLE Backs Available
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ESEE -4 Plain Edge with Black Sheath Black Blades and Micarta Handle
Overall Length: 9.0″
Cutting Edge Length: 4.1″
Overall Blade Length: 4.5″
Blade Width: 1.25″
Weight (Knife Only): 8.0 ounces
Drop Point Blade Style
Maximum Thickness: .188″
1095 Carbon Steel, 55 – 57 Rc. (Carbon Steel Models)
440C (Stainless Steel Models)
Removable Handles
Rounded Pommel w/ Lanyard Hole
Molded Sheath w/ Clip Plate (Color Depends On Model) -
ESEE Knives ESEE-5P Black Plain Edge
- Overall length: 11.00 inch,
- Weight: 16 oz.
- Blade Length: 5.25 inch
- Handle: Canvas Micarta
- Blade: Drop Point
This is the plain edge version ESEE-5P, designed by military SERE instructors as a hard-use downed pilot’s survival knife. -
ESEE-5 Serrated Edge Blade
- Overall length: 11.00 inch,
- Weight: 16 oz.
- Blade Length: 5.25 inch
- Handle: Canvas Micarta
- Blade: Drop Point
This ESEE serrated knife was designed by military SERE instructors as a hard-use downed pilot’s survival knife. -
ESEE -6 Plain Edge with Canvas Micarta Handles Dark Earth Blade
Overall Length: 11.75″
Cutting Edge Length: 5.75″
Overall Blade Length: 6.50″
Thickness: .188″
Steel: 1095 Carbon, 55-57 Rc
Finish: Textured Powder Coat
Blade Width: 1.56″
Drop Point Blade, Full Flat Grind
Weight (Knife Only): 12 Ounces
Handles: Linen Micarta
Molded Sheathing w/ Clip Plate -
FIRSTEDGE 5050-5055 SURVIVAL KNIFE
- Overall length: 11.25 inch,
- Weight: 1.47 lb. Packaged Weight / 17.5 oz. Knife Only
- Blade Length: 5.125 inch
- Handle: Coarse Textured Black G-10
- Blade: Drop Point
This Full Tang Fixed Blade was designed and built in partnership with U.S. Special Forces to their demanding training and deployment specifications. The ELMAX Stainless Steel Blade provides extremely high wear resistance and superior corrosion resistance.
Made in the USA. -
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Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife
- Open length: 10.0 inches
- Blade Length: 4.75 inches
- Handle: Rubber
- Weight: (with sheath): 14.7oz.
- Weight (no sheath): 11.2oz.
This Gerber knife comes with ½ serrated high carbon stainless steel drop point blade makes it ideal for edge retention and cutting rope along with other camping and survival tasks.
It's ergonomic textured rubber grip makes it comfortable to hold and stays firm in your hand with minimum slippage.
The stainless steel pommel at the base makes this knife ideal for hammering tasks. -
Gerber Prodigy Survival Knife, Serrated Edge
- Overall Length: 9.75 inch
- Weight: 12.45 oz.
- Blade Length: 4.75 inch
- Handle: Glass-filled nylon with SoftGrip overmold
- Blade: Serrated
Based on the award-winning LMF II, this smaller knife packs the same punch. The full tang 420HC stainless steel blade with black oxide finish American steel blade is beefy, coated with ceramic for corrosion resistance and reduced visibility. Textured over-molded soft-grip ensures a secure grip. -
Gerber Covert Knife, Serrated Edge
- Overall Length: 8.70 inch
- Weight: 4.2 oz. (122.4 g)
- Blade Length: 3.78 inch
- Handle: Glass-filled nylon
- Blade: Spear
Backed by the speed of F.A.S.T technology, this knife is designed to partner quick deployment with reliable ease of use. The 154CM steel blade is a tough titanium coated blade.
Made in the USA. -
Ka-Bar Becker BK9 Combat Bowie Fixed Blade Knife
- Overall length: 14-3/4,
- Weight: 16.8oz.
- Blade Length: 4-1/2 inch
- Handle: Ultramid
- Blade: Clip Point
Used by all branches of military and service members, this Ka-Bar Bowie knife is a great choice for collectors and outdoor services. A synthesis of Becker's trademark ergonomic handle design allows extended periods of use with less user fatigue than most other knives in its class.
It's ideal for a variety of combat and field-craft chores
Knife Made in USA, Sheath Made in China -
Maxam SKSUV11 Fixed Blade Survival Knife with Sheath
- Open length: 14-3/4 inches
- Blade Length: 6-1/4 inches
- Handle: Zinc alloy
- Weight: (with sheath): 20oz.
This very affordable Maxam knife is made of 420 stainless steel with non-glare blade, this knife comes with multi-piece survival kit located in knife handle. Leymar sheath can double as a sling-shot handle. It's a great beginner knife. -
Maxam SKJSK Survival Knife
- Open length: 14 1/8 inches
- Blade Length: 7 3/4 inches
- Handle: Zinc alloy
- Weight: (with sheath): 32oz.
Packed with full of gadgets, the Maxam 12pc Survival Knife Set is a top pick of survivalists, hunters, hikers, and outdoor sports enthusiasts.
The storage compartment in the zinc alloy handle holds a bandage, tweezers, safety pin, razor blade, fishing line, pencil, thread, needle, and compass The large knife features a 1/8” thick blade measuring 7 3/4” long. Also included is a 7” skeletal frame knife with a 1 1/2” blade, designed to fit in the sheath of the larger knife. Imported from China.
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