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these are awesome knives, even if you dont buy from here you should check them out. tons of different models to choose from. you can get one delivered to your door for less than $15 total. there just isnt a better knife series in that price range. I wasnt expecting to like the knife as much as i did, i was VERY impressed and would still be impressed even if the knife cost 3 times as much. if it was $45 i would still think its worth every penny. I now have a few mora knives. I keep them all over....tool box, car, kitchen, work, junk drawer ect..
well how is he supposed to believe you now? :-) i guess we will have to write it down and mail it to him....that way its not from the internet
Having been an outdoorsman since the 1970s, am amazed at all of the stuff that was considered ridiculous back then that has become the "only" way to go these days. We did not baton knives, worry about full tang, worry about counting ounces (no one even knew what grams were back then), our gear was steel and canvas, our food was in cans, etc. Oh the horror! It's a wonder we survived! Lol.
These survival myths came out of military survival schools and have very little to do with making our way in the woods on camping and backpacking trips. Paracord, knives as pry bars, magnesium for fire starting, waxed or PJ coated cotton balls, etc and more came from there. When you have an endless supply of paracord, cotton balls, etc free - courtesy of the military - of course you use them for everything.
When you are cutting your way out of a downed plane (which is where thick tough knives as pry bars with saw teeth on the spine came from) and only needing to survive a couple hours up to a couple days until rescued, your needs and priorities are vastly different than wandering the woods. Think about it, saws on knives are a bad idea from both safety and usefulness standpoints. The thicker the saw, the more wood we must remove. Thick knives do not cut as well and are harder to maintain in the field. None of that serves us well in the woods!
But hey, I have a totally different perspective than most between growing up on a homestead/farm and stomping the woods since before most of y'all were born. I've watched the progression of gear over skills and dollars over common sense that most have not been here or paying attention to see.
I'd stack any of us from back then against 'most anyone nowadays. We didn't bail, we improvised. We may have shivered through the night on occassion, but we learned our lesson and didn't make that mistake twice.... instead we made new ones! In the '80s I had a set of meals that the can from the first meal became my cook pot, the next my mug, then bowl, fry pan, hobo stove, etc. From the third day on had a full cook kit. Long story short is I think it's a shame most rely upon spending dollars on gear these days rather than skill and improvisation.
The tang on Moras reaches nearly to the end of the handle. In that regard, they are "full tang". Some will say "Moras are not full tang because the tang reduces in size within the handle". Well, have you ever seen any knife that doesn't??? Nope. Think about it, the handle would be too large to fit most hands if the tang remained the same height as most blades. Besides, the balance would be awful! Bottom line is, if you know what you're doing, it won't matter if the knife is full tang or not. If you don't know what you're doing, full tang isn't going to save you.
Cheers Rogerxd45, thanks for the chuckle! Hope you find the rant amusing, if not useful.