Cold Steel offers some of the best knives ... Military SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) instructors designed the ESEE-5 as a downed pilot’s survival knife, so this tool is ...

What the Bowie knife became is very different from the one described in the Sandbar Fight. But that doesn’t really matter. Bowie knives of the time were fearsome tools designed for combat.

Here, the best three to own. Elmer Roush, a Vietnam vet-eran and 50-year blacksmith, created this tactical ax drawing upon hand-to-hand combat experience and a deep knowledge of ancient Norse weapons.