Frag Out! Magazine
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The kit includes two mounts – a longer one, with a shape of a flattened loop, intended for the wide belts, and a shorter one – a clip. At the height of the blade spine there are the plastic clamps between which a fire starter can be inserted. This solution works surprisingly well, there are no backlashes and I just cannot imagine a situation where it could fall out from the clamp. The fire starter attached to the knife is 10 cm long – it's not any micro-sized version but a 100% valuable product, what cannot be said about a sharpener. The plate coated with diamond dust is a small (approx. 5 by 2cm) rectangular glued to the front part of the scabbard. IN USE Due to a fact that during the last month I have had no opportunity to become a shipwreck survivor on a deserted island, and a place where I live my kindhearted life has not changed into a post-apo wilderness, I have not managed to find out how the knife would work in an extreme survival situation. I have had a chance to find out to what extend the Mora with a catchy Bushcraft Survival name works in the unorthodox bushcraft. The weather has not so much got all together with my imaginations about the October in the colors of the Polish Golden Autumn. It has rained all the time so it has given me no hope for basking in the sun on the green grass under the blue sky so I have had no other choice than going to the forest in the less favorable conditions. After many days of continuous raining I haven't been able to find any dry branches; even the pieces of wood saved previously for a rainy day has already got wet. Nevertheless, I have had anything better around better so with the Mora Bushcraft Survival I have divided lumbers into pieces and cut out some wood chips. I have worked alternately with the carbon steel and Sandvick version, but during batoning the differences haven't been noticeable. I have been able to feel that these are knives not recommended for such tasks. The blade is rather short and dividing thicker pieces of the hard beech wood is a tedious operation. After chopping thin strips of wood it has come at an right time for making a fire. You can strike quite large group of sparks by a spine and after a few attempts I have managed to set tissue on fire, but the conditions have required to provide kindling for a longer time in order to keep up fire. There were no problems with getting the birch bark - cutting and levering has gone very efficiently so after several minutes I have been able to enjoy a rather stable flame. However, a continuous fight for fire has not enabled me to charge too much with the knives and the test of a wider spectrum have had to wait for another jaunt. Because of "Winter is coming" season I have decided that on the occasion of the next walk, I will build a shelter. The Mora Bushcraft Survival knives have been with me when I have prepared a fire and when I was setting up a shelter frame. At first, I have cut the weeds and thorny climbers out, preparing a small square between the trees. I have set a place for the bonfire and started to make a fire. Regardless a showering rain I have managed to do it more efficiently that for the first time. The knife, after a contact with the fire starter has coated with a yellow dust, but just after pulling it through the wet grass, I was able to remove it. I have also cut and sharpened the branches for a mandatory piece of meat with them. When flames have already whipped on the forest clearings and a white smoke has curled upwards from a small stony circle, I have begun to debark the elements of the structure, which has been supposed to be constructed on the cleaned square. I have managed to complete the work very efficiently, the bark peeled by the entire flaps, levered by the narrow blade. The wet hand has not slipped on the knife handle, nothing has pinched me, the knife was sitting comfortably in my hand. Despite rather intensive scrubbing on the wood and batoning, the coating on the carbon steel version has remained untouched, which is a great advantage. The stainless steel version has also surprised me positively. I have been afraid that a neon color that prevents against KNIVES