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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6648403" data-attributes="member: 2011">This. A knife with a serrated top blade in addition to a non-serrated bottom blade does a lot of jobs. Creating snares, gutting fish or game, shaving wood, skinning, cutting branches. If you kill a large animal, try field dressing or deboning it in the field with an axe instead of a knife. Not easy (although splitting bone is easier with two axes).<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xijmge8_NJw" target="_blank">Deboning</a>If you are in a situation where you have to create a strong shelter, or are in the dead of winter where wood for a fire can be frozen, then typically an axe is preferable to a knife. But survival knives can handle a lot more jobs than axes can.Course, this is why many outdoorsmen take a knife, an axe, and/or a saw depending on what they are doing. Trying to pick just one is handicapping yourself.I do think preference might be a regional thing. In the pacific northwest, most of the trees are coniferous whereas most trees are deciduous in the northeast (unless you are fairly far north). More game in deciduous forests. More lower hanging branches in most deciduous forests. With access to more branch sized wood in a many deciduous forests, an axe is not always needed to create fires or shelters, the primary (but not sole) uses for an axe.</blockquote>