wheelgunslinger
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I think it depends largely on what you mean by camping.
If you're doing survival stuff, like Bear Grylls does, you'll want a fixed blade for making bedding and shelter and what have you.
If you like to go a bit down a trail and pitch a tent, fire up your jetboil, and open a mountain house meal, then you probably just need a wee little folder like sodbuster.
Most of the people I know who have thru-hiked the AT have taken a simple folder, though nearly all really didn't have any survival skills and carried lots of gear (tent, stove, etc)
So, it's not an easy question to answer.
What is an easy question to answer is the one posed above about why one would even need a Ka-Bar military type knife if not in the jungle. You buy it because you want it and you think it's neato.
It's okay to just like something and buy it without some grand purpose behind it or a stated practical usage.
If you're doing survival stuff, like Bear Grylls does, you'll want a fixed blade for making bedding and shelter and what have you.
If you like to go a bit down a trail and pitch a tent, fire up your jetboil, and open a mountain house meal, then you probably just need a wee little folder like sodbuster.
Most of the people I know who have thru-hiked the AT have taken a simple folder, though nearly all really didn't have any survival skills and carried lots of gear (tent, stove, etc)
So, it's not an easy question to answer.
What is an easy question to answer is the one posed above about why one would even need a Ka-Bar military type knife if not in the jungle. You buy it because you want it and you think it's neato.
It's okay to just like something and buy it without some grand purpose behind it or a stated practical usage.
