Schrade Delta Class Little Ricky Full Tang Fixed Blade with Titanium Coated 8Cr13MoV Stainless Steel Drop Point Re-Curve Blade for Outdoor Survival, Hiking

Great camp knife. Sharp and sturdy build. Nice sheath.

I wanted a survival knife that wasn't as large as my full-size machete or K-Bar Kukri, but larger than my 11.5" overall length, D2 tool steel 6.5" clipped point Bowie-style survival/bushcraft/hunter micarta handle knife. After reading the reviews on the Schrade "Little Ricky" 14.1" overall length survival/bushcraft/hunter/fighting knife with a relatively heavy 8Cr13MoV titanium coated stainless steel 7.9" drop point, recurve blade and a textured TPE handle, I thought it might be exactly what I wanted. With a price under $40.00, even if it didn't turn out to be what I hoped or expected, it wouldn't be a very expensive error.When it arrived (very quickly with Amazon Prime shipping) and I opened it's box, the Schrade "Little Ricky" knife did feel heavier than my other knives, which was what I wanted and expected, but it also felt well balanced and very comfortable in my hand because of the knife's finger choil and well-shaped finger grooves in the handle. The blade was very sharp straight out of the box -- not frog-hair-splitting sharp, but sharper than I expected for a knife costing less than $40.00. The first thing I did was to use a Smith's PP1 Pocket Pal Knife Sharpener's 20-degree edge angle carbide stones to "smooth out" any tiny imperfections or "rough spots" in the factory-machined blade edge, which is something I find in all knives. I then attached a 550 paracord lanyard through the lanyard hole in the butt of the handle (to minimize any injury to my fingers, hands or limbs I might receive if I accidentally dropped this sharp, heavy knife) before I tried to actually use it to perform any of the tasks I had planned for it.Batoning seasoned 3" limbs to make kindling and small logs for my campfire was quick and easy with my Schrade "Little Ricky" knife, as was using it to shave off the twigs and small branches from 9' - 10' long poles (from 2-1/2" to 3" diameter green saplings felled with my Estwing camping hatchet) then using it to cut joinery notches into those poles to make strong joints which I tied together with vines gathered with this knife to build a very strong framework into which I could weave the larger, leafy branches I had shaved from the sapling poles earlier and some evergreen boughs harvested with this knife to construct a strong, rainproof roof for my shelter, My Schrade "Little Ricky" knife handled all these tasks with ease, thanks to its heft and the sharpness of its blade, and it completed the work faster, easier, and just as well as the smaller 11.5" survival/bushcraft/hunting knife I had been using did. I also like the thermoplastic (not Kydex) that comes with this knife. It has both a friction-fit "click it in" security catch that holds the knife in place under most normal situations, and it has a very strong Velcro strap that holds this heavy knife very securely in the sheath when running, diving for cover, even when the sheath is hanging upside-down and being shaken up and down vigorously. I attached a handmade wide nylon webbing pouch to hold a Smith's PP1 Pocket Pal Sharpener to this knife's sheath with two 3/8" wide Velcro straps. The knife and sheath are heavy enough that you will definitely want to tie the sheath to your leg, as well as run your belt through the sheath's wide belt loop, to keep it from bouncing and flopping around on your leg. Fortunately, there are still plenty of holes and slots in several locations on this sheath to tie it securely to your leg with 550 paracord or nylon webbing straps to give you a custom fit that's perfect for you.I was pretty impressed with my under $40.00 Schrade knife. I had owned and used Schrade knives in the past, but they had all been folding pocket knives, not large fixed-blade survival/bushcraft/hunting knives. The more I use it, the better I like my Schrade "Little Ricky" knife. It is definitely not your grand-dad's or your father's Schrade "whittlin" or "mumblety peg" pocket knife. I will always keep my Machete, Kukri, Bowie, Karambit, Drop- or Clipped-Point knives packed with my Survival/Bug-Out Bag because each type of these edged weapons have different strengths that make them superior and valuable in various survival/bushcraft/hunting/fighting situations. My Schrade "Little Ricky" 14.1" drop-point, recurve blade knife has performed well enough for me to have earned its own spot in my Survival/Bug-Out Bag along with those other edged weapons I might not be able to live without if a "SHTF event" should occur in the future.

I've had a modest collection of knives over the years courtesy to Amazon and they've mainly involved fixed blades although there have been a few folders and swords as well. My EDC knives are all CRKT folders and I've been quite happy with the collection and the function of the various knives. That is, until I opened today's package from Amazon. Now I've also owned Schrade knives before as well and most have been peanuts, watermelon knives, camp and pack/boy scout type knives. In fact I didn't know that Schrade made any fixed blade knives. Boy do they ever!!! After unpacking the box the first thing I noticed was the sheath which was way more than the description had made it out to be. A very functional Kydex belt loop sheath. The knife snaps into place and there is a short length of hook and loop Velcro strap to secure the above tang area and grip. A quick pull and the knife is in your hand ready to go to task. The blade was keenly sharp and was able to shave some arm hair after breaking down the cardboard shipping boxes. The spine is a thick 1/4" wide with a weight forward profile for easy chopping along with an edge that cannot be beat. I'm now sold on the notion of Schrade fixed blade knives. There were actually three Schrade knives I had my eye on this order. This one won out and I couldn't be happier. The next two will be a camp knife that's similar to this one but has a bit longer length. The last is a bolo knife out of stainless steel and an overmolded rubber grip. Next time you are in the market for a knife, don't leave out Schrade as a possibility. Based upon this example I'm sure that I will own more and more of this brand of knife in the future.

I hate to admit it, but I horse traded this knife for some extra "free" work on my Mothers house, but before I did, I wanted to see if I would trade it, or another knife I hade that I was already using. The Little Ricky did very well at delimbing branches, it would cut through a 2" green guava branch in 4-5 swings without rolling, chipping, or getting the slightest bit dull, but I will say that you need to know how to cut "larger" limbs correctly, I see a lot of complaints about performance, and it's usually from someone trying to cut a larger limb at a 90Deg. angle, and that just doesn't work unless you're in the movies. The handle gave me no problems at all, I was wearing leather gloves at the time. and overall, the knife did just what I wanted it to do. The only reason I traded it, and not my other knife was because the other knife is a little longer, about 1-1/2" - 2", and the Little Ricky outweighed my longer knife by a good bit, and it is thick, about 1/4" - 5/16" thick, where I like a little thinner knife for the use I was going to be putting it through. But the belly on the Little Ricky is just about perfect, and the 8Cr13MoV steel stays sharp a long time, if you know how to use it, and you can re-sharpen it with almost any basic stone or diamond hone in no time. But for my work, the profile that I need, the Little Ricky is just too thick from the blade to the spine, but I KNOW it will be someone else's perfect camping knife, splitting wood for the fire, and almost anything else they throw at it.