Thank you! I love that hand Alrighty, welcome back to the channel everybody and happy New Year I'm glad you're here. I want to thank you for being here. This is my oh my gosh. I started doing YouTube. I think in 2010. So this is we're going on our 12th year at the Lake Fort God channel. So thank you. Subscribe if you haven't already and I'm looking forward to another year of doing outdoor content for you guys. I feel like I've learned so much over this decade with fishing, hunting, outdoors in general. Now I wanted to start the year off doing a video on something I'm passionate about. I don't do that many videos on it but knives. I've been collecting knives since I was a kid. My dad used to take me to flea markets and I would just you know pick up cheap little knives and I've just always been interested with them. So I want to start the new year off giving you guys a video about five knives. I think every outdoorsman should have and not just particular ones but the categories really. There's a bunch of different brands and they range price range but these are five different categories that I think everyone should have. It's probably already your first knife but it should be the first one in your five knives for every outdoorsman and that is a Swiss Army knife. A Swiss Army knife is incredible because it does so many things. It's not perfect at everything but it just does so much. You know it has a knife a couple of knives on it. You could clean animals with this. The knife is really thin on it and it's super easy to sharpen. It's not like a high-end steel or anything like that but it gets the job done and it's a good shape for cleaning animals. Just personal care like when you're going hiking, going camping, you know you need to like trim your fingernails, clean up a gunk out of something, you know pick something out of I don't know. Just just little tasks it's it's incredible. It does so much. This one even has a little saw on it. Screw driver. It's got picks everything like that. This does so much so this is the first one I think everyone needs to have in their collection. It's even got a toothpick. Yeah go. Pick your teeth. Keep your teeth clean. Swiss Army knife number one. Number two is going to be a pocket knife. Everyone needs a decent pocket knife and I've got a whole collection of them. You know personal preference. I love bench maids. I love spider coves. These knives are these are actual knives that I use are not collectibles. I keep them in rotations just depending on you know what day it is. What I like, what I want to use and carry but you know the pocket knives are just incredible. Something around three inches. You just keep in your back pocket. I keep on in the truck. I keep on in my backpack my hunting pack. I keep on in just about every pack. You know how you even I've got some old buck knives. There's a lot of there's a ton of different brands and we shouldn't even get into brand brand specifically but just get yourself a decent pocket knife. You can clean animals with these. They are in a pinch you can use these for like woodcraft and things like that. Cutting ropes, cutting fishing line, all sorts of things. You all know that you need to get pocket knives so definitely have a decent pocket knife in your collection. That's you know not something giant but something that's easy to carry. Pocket knives get a bunch of them. Don't have to be expensive. Just have a bunch laying around. Pocket knives are awesome. Next one and the line up at one I use a ton because I fish a lot. It's a filet knife. You don't have to get an expensive one. Filet knives come pretty cheap but what makes a filet knife unique is it's thin and it's flexible. So any time a knife is thin that means it's going to be slicey. So you can use this for fish. The flex is really key. When you're able to flex that knife down and push out on that fish you're getting the most off the feet. So it is a very useful tool and you can also use it for boning deer or other animals whatever you're cleaning. You can use a filet knife the same way. I mean it's basically a boning knife as well. So it's able to I really love filet knives for getting the silver skin off of deer and pigs and everything like that. It's a very useful tool for that. But it's unique. You can't really clean a fish or our bone animals the same as you can with a filet knife. They're very very useful. So every outdoorsman needs a filet knife in their collection. And I'm not including an electric filet knife in this video. Obviously filet electric filet knives are fantastic for cleaning fish. They're flexible as well and they're very fast. We got a ton of fish. It's great. But we're just talking about the basic blades, the fixed blades and everyone needs. So filet knife number four is going to be a camp knife or a belt knife. Every outdoorsman needs one of these just something that has a pretty thick spine on it that you can do just about everything with. It's not going to be good at cleaning fish. It's not going to be good at boning meat off of animals. But it's great at woodworking. So you can do woodworking, woodcraft. You can do firecraft with this, making your feather sticks and making your kindling, things like that. If you need to make a fire, you can definitely skin animals with this. You can do just about everything at camp that you need to do. And even if you're in a pinch, you got to you got to cut some thick rope. You know, you got to do some light chopping, things like that. Having a good camp knife is key. Something around four inches, good thick spine. It's a good hard steel, carbon steel or stainless steel. Doesn't have to be expensive. Something that's got a good comfortable handle that you can work hard. You can baton it. You can just work the knife really hard. It's not going to break. It's not going to bend. A good camp knife is essential and everyone's collection. So if you're only going to get one, make sure it's a decent one. But this is a knife that if you're stranded, you'd have to count on. So have yourself a good camp. Lastly, this is a blade. It's not necessarily a knife. And I can honestly do another video on like 10 blades that everyone should have. But if we're just talking the five essentials, everyone needs a folding saw. I have a couple of these. I keep one in my ATV. I keep one in my pack. This is one that you can use if you're a tree hunter. If you're hunting out of trees, it's an amazing tool. Everyone has to have cutting limbs. But just general use. Cutting off limbs to make firewood. If you needed to make anything out of wood, you didn't have a big saw or you don't have an axe to chop. A saw can do a ton. Let's just say there's a lay down that's out there in your way that you need to chop down. This thing will do the job. It may take you a long time. You can do the job. But it's just anything like less than six inches, five inches. It will just cut right through. And you can do a lot of crafting with a saw. I even use it around here. I use it around here a ton. Just for limbing trees in the backyard, you know, just for some arborist usage. A folding saw is an incredible tool. So those are the five categories of knives. I think every outdoorsman should have. You get more specific from there, different types of knives like very thin, skinning knives and everything like that that are better at the job than the ones I mentioned there. But those categories you can definitely get by with. That is it for this video. Very simple one to start out 2022. I'm looking forward to making more outdoor action videos for you guys in 2022. 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