Clearly Filtered Water Pitcher Review You want an effective tool, not a weird limp. Will you be using it on camping trips to your fully accommodated cabin or are you expecting to make shelter when The End OF The World As We Know It arrives? Obviously it can be smaller if your purpose is to whittle garden gnomes during your downtime at the cabin but should be on the bigger side if you plan on having a useful tool in any situation you may find yourself in.
The tang is not that gritty orange powdered drink from the 70's. The tang is the protrusion of the steel of the blade into the handle of a knife. Cheaper knives will have a separate blade and handle instead of a tang. The best survival knife will have what's called a full tang, where the blade extends in to the handle of the knife as close to the end of the knife as possible.
This is the reason you should not get a survival knife with a hollow handle to store matches or one that has a compass on the end of the handle. If the handle is hollow, then the tang isn't long enough to provide strength to the blade, or worse there is no tang. My http://thesuperiorsingingmethodreview.com/ advice is to leave the compass, waterproof matches, fishing line and hooks in a separate bag and go with a solid handle and as close to a full tang as possible.