Mora Bushcraft Orange

Great knife. Meets expectations and beyond!

I love this knife.
I had for many years on camping trips used a classic Buck Knife 119, also a beautiful knife, but just too pretty and sentimentally valuable to subject to rough and tumble field work. I'm a traditionalist so the blaze orange synthetic handle threw me a bit but I decided I was going to place function over aesthetics this time and look for something very utilitarian. And the colour has actually really grown on me...its amazing how handy it is to be able to find where you left it with a quick scan of your site (if you take it off your belt for some reason).
I made a simple pass/fail test for my next knife; It had to be both well built enough AND expendably cheap enough that I could use it to dig a hole with. That was it. If I felt I could hack away in the dirt among the pine needles and roots and not be afraid to duff it off the Canadian Shield granite, then nothing else in camp work would do it any harm.
This is the knife for that kind of work. I have abused the hell out of it. It has batoned firewood by the cord, cut opened cans of beans, popped beer caps, sliced cooking onions, cleaned fish (not the best at this but in a pinch it'll do), cut rope, been subjected to knife throwing contests, dug cat holes, struck fire steels, cracked open mussels, whittled and been pounded and dropped and thrown and left uncleaned for weeks etc etc etc. I used it once to chisel through a fibreglass patio chair seat to make an improvised latrine "throne"...
The Scandi grind has chipped numerous times but you just sharpen it up and keep going.
If you want an heirloom, or a pretty knife, theres a million other options; Helle etc. If you want a knife you could trust your life to but not cry over if you accidentally deep six'd it in Opeongo...buy this one.
I guarantee you, you are not tougher than this knife. And if you are, hats off to sir or madame, you can certainly afford to replace it. Buy with confidence.
Happy Camping!