YouTube - Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival Knife from Gerber

Has anyone here used one of these yet? It's apparently replaced the British custom knife used by Grylls in earlier seasons of his survival show.

Looks like a solid knife with well- thought-out accessories, whatever one thinks of his "survival" hijinks.

I wonder how it feels in the hand. Haven't seen one yet in person, but it may come in a blister pack, like a similar Gerber model. I hate buying a knife that I can't hold first...

T-Star

I haven't seen one, but they're only about fifty bucks on eBay, so it might be worth a try. Thanks for posting.

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YouTube - Gerber Bear Grylls Ultimate Knife


Here's a promotional video featuring Grylls, himself.

If it sells for only some $50, I wonder how good it is, and it seems to be a heavily marketed "gimmick" to some degree. I wonder if the low cost means that it's Made in China. I think some modern Gerber items are.

I'd probably favor a Randall or Fallkniven product, but this did catch my eye, and might be quite good. It's almost surely better than the Govt. - issued Pilot's Survival Knife.

A comment under one video says that the handle is breakable plastic, which is inflammable, so that one can break off bits of it to use as fire tinder. I think I'd rather have a more rugged handle!

My father taught me how to sharpen hollow ground knives, axes, chisels, etc.. Why include a sharpening stone with this knife? Clearly it can't be sharpened with a stone. It looks like a Gerber LMF II. Like exactly, another gimmic, for backyard camper wannabes. Ah..I'll be in my backyard.

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Looks like a piece of junk. Read the comments...

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I watched the video and then I noticed on the side another video warning against the same knife. Tried watching it but the volume was so low I couldnt hear it.
YouTube - Warning: Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival Knife FAIL!

Several different models of these knives are sold at Wal-Mart. You'd have to open the packaging to hold one, but they sure do look purty!

..have been impressed with Bear Grylls and his "survival antics". So much so that any product endorsed by him I find highly suspect regardless of who it is made by. Mr. Grylls is a showman (yeah, yeah...I've read about his credentials) and there are probably more than a few people on this board who have been through military survival/SERE/etc.etc. who would find his antics more akin to a bad episode of "That's Incredible".
A GOOD survival knife (if you are actually planning a trek in the wilderness) is a carbon steel fixed blade approximately 0.25 inch thick with full tang construction with a blade design similar to a Searles Bowie or a machete at a length between seven and twelve inches in length. This blade can be used for everything from protection, to chopping, to skinning to cutting. If you go mass produced, I'd suggest a KaBar USMC fighting knife, Ontario short machetes, Gerber (some models,,,not the Bear Grylls one) and some Buck models.
This hyped up survival knife marketing is a load of pure horse dung...I've seen "Rambo" knives with hollow handles that IMHO were so utterly useless I would not even own one. Unless one carries bug out/survival gear with them all the time (I do on long trips over three counties) most people who run into survival situations are going to be pretty much left with one thing if they aren't hurt...and that is the gray matter between the ears.
I'm sorry for the rant here, folks, but people like Bear Grylls will get you killed if you do some of the stuff they do in the field in a survival situation. Take whatever they do with a large dose of salt...then seek out the real knowledge.

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I agree about the USAF Survival Knife...much too small for anything but small game and cutting kindling. Better than nothing, but still better choices exist.

BREAKING OFF THE HANDLE FOR FIRESTARTING MATERIAL???!!!!! I'm sorry for the caps...but "HUH?"

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Grylls worries me. Some viewers will probably try some of his stunts. I lost faith in him as an oracle after I realized that he sometimes seems to seek the hardest way to do something, like climb a dangerous hill that he could have walked around.

I have trouble taking seriously a knife that carries his initials in large print. Still, I'm sure that there are some viewers who might buy worse knives. If only they hadn't gone for that breakable handle, with marketing that resembles something that kids might buy to emulate their TV hero.... This packaging reminds me of something that might have a name like the Lone Ranger or Rambo on it.

it's one thing to know that Bradford Angier helped to design a version of the Randall Model 5, but most celebrity marketing leaves me suspicious, and maybe a little embarrassed to wear the product.

T-Star

I have one and for $50 the knife isn't bad. The sharpener is meant for emergency in the field use not honing a super fine edge. The latest knifes have the handles changed so the pommels don't fail anymore. It's easy to tell too. The latest versions have a thicker orange strip in front of the pommel.

I was disappointed that gerber chose to have it made in china.

I think I detected some irony there, and real disdain for what the writer considered a piece of junk.

Gerber LMF II all the way. Heavy but I would trust my life and that of my family too.

B2 (;->

YouTube - Man vs. Wild: Bear Grylls Survives Fake Lava

lol

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ahh BG's show is fake and he has come under fire for it. Everything is pretty much set up (which it has a disclaimer saying that events are set up for demonstration) I hate his show............ hate it. not a big fan of the Les guy either but at least he puts himself in more of a survival situation. (no 9000000 man crew taking his phone calls for him and handing him bottled water)