Cold Steel YYOJ SRK Survival Rescue Fixed Blade Knife with Secure-Ex Sheath

Muy bueno, filo excelente, tamaño y agarre muy bueno

Collected many a knives over my years and never had a Cold Steel knife before. Robust simple design and a fantastic everyday knife you're not afraid to use. It comes shaving sharp and feels great in hand. Balanced and comfortable. The sheath is well designed and holds the knife well as it's supposed to. You could make your own if the synthetic sheath bothers you. I bought it on sale for $35. Cdn. Amazing value. I can safely say this one will go down as a favorite. Regrets are wished I bought more after I held it.

I wanted a utility knife to mount to my LBV. I wear my knife upside down on the weak side. The knife needs to be strong, but not so large as to hog too much space on the vest. My current knife is an original Gerber Mk I in a custom kydex sheath, connected to the vest with a Malice Clip. The Gerber is a fighting knife, and is too rare and expensive to be using day to day. The SRK C is just about the same size, is sturdier, and useful for more tasks. The Secure-Ex sheath is meh. It has a rep for dulling the blade,, though I haven't tested this, and won't. It does not have the retention strength required for wearing the knife upside down. I will make my own kydex sheath and mount it with a Malice clip. The knife came sharp, but not razor sharp, which is just how I like it. Too sharp, and it dulls quickly with work. Too dull and you fight the knife in bushcrafty tasks. I wanted a knife that I don't need to coddle, and that's what I believe I got. Out of the box, it slices paper cleanly, and the SK-5 steel has a rep for being quite tough, though I haven't tested it in the field. The handle is very grippy, and I couldn't ask for more.. My only real complaint is the sheath, but I have yet to find a production sheath that I was happy with, so I didn't expect perfection. This is a survival/bushcraft/utility knife like it's cousins, the full sized SRKs. I have a couple of those, and have been very happy with them. Out of the box, the knife seems great, and the price is REALLY reasonable. I think I hit the jackpot with this one.

Excelent as expected from Cold Steel!!!

Very good budget fixed blade. Nice medium sized blade that can do most camp tasks and be easily carried. Steel is adequate for the price and easily resharpened. It came very sharp and ready to use. It isn't the best slicer, but is extremely tough and capable. It's also small and lightweight enough to be carried everyday and be used as effective self defense blade. The sheath is good enough with excellent retention and has many lashing points that make it able to accept many mounting options (I like to scout carry mine using a tek lok) Overall the knife can perform many rolls from camp knife to survival knife to self defense knife. It's not perfect at any of these, but is very capable at doing them all. Great bang for the buck and if you can catch it on sale (under $30) don't even think about it, just buy it. You won't be disappointed.