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Recently, I was in the market for a new survival knife. I am a life-long Gerber fan and I was heart-broken a few months back when my Gerber of 12 years finally gave out. That knife took more beating and battering than I can describe. As is the case with so many knives, it was my own poor decision that finally did it in.\u00a0 I pried.\u00a0 My trusty knife’s blade finally gave and it snapped off about a quarter inch from the tip.<\/p>\n
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They always say that when one door closes another opens.\u00a0 The loss of my knife was sad but it did give me the opportunity to shop again.\u00a0 After months of reading, seeing, and fondling, I finally settled on the Gerber LMF II ASEK which retails for about $120 but can be found as high as $200 and as low as $60 on the internet.<\/p>\n
There are a few reasons for my choice.\u00a0 The first is simply that I trust Gerber to put out a solid product that lives up to the claims.\u00a0 The second is that my first assumption seemed solid after all the reviews I’d read.\u00a0 The third is that I wanted a good all around knife.\u00a0 This knife certainly fits the bill of ‘all-around’ or ‘general purpose’.<\/p>\n
The LMF II was designed as a pilot survival knife.\u00a0 ASEK (Aircrew Survival Egress Knife) is a classification but it also follows a general outline of standards.\u00a0 For example, the knife includes a\u00a0pointed and shock-isolated butt that is made to shatter glass, plexiglas, and even polycarbonate, as these are your typical window materials.\u00a0 The knife was also designed to accomplish several other tasks; cutting through fuselage, batoning,\u00a0easily sharpened, usable as a spear to name a few.<\/p>\n
The sheath is top of\u00a0the line.\u00a0 It is attached with extremely high quality webbing\u00a0and the knife is held safe and secure by\u00a0two snaps across the handle as well as\u00a0a sort of spring clip across the hilt.\u00a0 There is also a built in sharpener in the sheath.\u00a0\u00a0Sharpening the knife in the field is simple.\u00a0 You place the knife in the slot\u00a0and pull.\u00a0 Easy as that.\u00a0\u00a0You may not\u00a0get the best results you’ve ever seen but it can restore the knife to a usable edge.<\/p>\n
I have only had the knife for a month or two and have not had the chance to\u00a0use it extensively.\u00a0 Up to now I have done some minor chopping and batoning (splitting wood), I have cleaned and butchered a few rabbits, and I have broken a beer bottle with the butt cap.\u00a0 It’s a bit unwieldy as a field dressing knife but that’s not it’s design so no qualms there.\u00a0 It did an exceptional job chopping and batoning as well as breaking glass.\u00a0 The knife is quite light for a survival knife but I find it more than adequate for most tasks.\u00a0 I would not put the LMF II at the top of the list in any one skill but, as I stated earlier, the knife is designed for general purpose use.\u00a0 I would not hesitate to place it at or near the top of that category.<\/p>\n
To date I only have one complaint about this knife.\u00a0 The knife is too long to just hang from a belt and yet it is not long enough to comfortably use the bottom thigh strap.\u00a0 This is a common complaint for me.\u00a0 I am 6′ 8″ and I have an unusually long thigh.\u00a0 Let’s just say I’m the exception, not the rule.\u00a0 I doubt this would be a problem for any normal sized human being.<\/p>\n
All in all I am thrilled with this knife.\u00a0 I plan to give periodic updates on its performance as we venture out together into the wilds.\u00a0 I hope you’ll be there to join us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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