BPS Knives Nighthawk Adventurer - Camping Knife - Fixed-Blade Stainless Steel Survival Knife - Black Leather Sheath and Firestarter - Outdoor Full Tang Knives - Bushcraft Knives

This knife is big, high quality with a good edge. It’s lightweight and holds an edge ok.What it lacks in its edge holding it makes up for in its ease of sharpening.Good to use for feathering and bushcraft stuff.I like it for its inexpensive price and its ability to be a beater knife, I won’t cry when it breaks but it doesn’t feel like it will for a few years.

I order a couple of these after reading reviews from others on the sheath quality. They are extremely affordable knives and figured I could use the sheaths with other knives I have that are just not up to snuff. When I received the knife I was amazed of the quality of the sheath hands down just this is worth double their selling price! The knife is basic and very functional very sharp out of the box. Been carrying it and using it for the past week very impressive today the least. Easy to sharpen light weight and cuts like a champ. Edges are a little square along the spine and handle I just sanded them down a tad to my liking. Definitely going to keep these in rotation! Highly recommend if you’re looking for a solid simple basic light weight functional knife that won’t break the bank. I’ve bought a couple so far and will be looking at other models soon.

This is a great knife at an incredible price. Better yet the sheath is better quality than those that come with knives 4x the cost. The blade and handle are simplistically perfect and set for every task that I've needed it for. I've seen comments that a harder steel would be better but I disagree, I'm not chopping steel or cutting rocks. I use my knife as a knife and the steel on this knife is up to the task and easy to sharpen to a razor edge. I ordered another model because honestly it's a great knife and money well spent.

BPS knows how to get your attention. Was looking for a leather sheath for my Mora Companion when I stumbled on this and just had to have it. The full package - wood handles, leather sheath, ferro rod - just screams old timey outdoorsy bushcrafty. I, and I’m sure a lot of people who wind up purchasing it, had stars in my eyes just looking at the pictures, so I did some research on YouTube and Blade forums hoping they would give me a reason to punch the Buy Now, and sure enough, BPS is indeed a respected brand and this is their most popular knife, and Ukrainian to boot.The sheath is a beauty, smooth, thick, high quality leather. I see sheaths almost identical to this one going for $60-70 on Etsy, but here it’s thrown in almost like a freebie. The blade itself is impressive as well. Broad and thick with a full tang, scandi grind and sharp 90 degree spine, I see no reason why you wouldn’t choose this over the ever popular Mora if you were going into the woods and wanted to carry just one blade. The Mora Companion or Garberg would probably be better for finer tasks, but the Adventurer seems like it would be a more capable all around blade with a construction that looks like a compromise between a bushcraft knife and a Bowie style that could better handle chopping, batoning, or fending off a Deliverance style attack of hillbillies. I read some reviews that complained of the exposed tang being slightly proud of the wood scales making for an uncomfortable grip, but they seem to have solved that issue. Mine is perfectly flush. My main complaint would be that mine did not come very sharp. It couldn’t pop hair and was even struggling to cut paper, but I had a grand old time sharpening and stropping this thing within an inch of its life, now I could circumcise a flea with it. I put a lazy man’s forced patina on it by soaking it in room temp white vinegar for 5 hours, but it didn’t come out as dark as I would have liked. I then tried a criss cross pattern using yellow mustard. It came alright I think, but because I’m an OCD flip flop artist who’s never satisfied, I decided I didn’t like it and wanted it back in its original condition. I used Mother’s Mag & Aluminum Polish and polished the daylights out of it. If you look at the picture you can still see faint remnants of the cross cross pattern, so it’s not exactly in its original condition, but it is now brilliantly mirror polished. I may try again with boiled vinegar and a different mustard pattern.All things considered, this is one of the highest value purchases I’ve ever made, and by buying it you even get the satisfaction of knowing that you’re helping a beleaguered people in some small way. Get the whole collection. They all look great.

I'm an admirer of knives, especially budget knives. Most of my collection is of knives well under $100, but I do have a few over that price, including a Tops Operator Seven(look at the pic of my collection). Not only do I have them but I carry them daily and I can tell you that most leave room to be desired especially in the sheath department. With that said, It's pretty hard to find much of anything bad to say about this BPS knife really. The worst "issues" are that some very small areas of the scales aren't perfectly flush with the spine (barely detectable really) and the scales could be slightly thicker for me(at least for me). Though I can tell you that this knife far surpasses any other $40 fixed blade I've bought in fact , it's basically on par with Tops Knives for quality and their knives are much more expensive. What really pushes this knife, and BPS as a whole, into the throne of budget knife kings would be their sheaths. Most knives you get for this price come with cheap kydex,terrible faux-leather, or horrendous nylon sheaths. But NOT BPS! No, they give you a very very well made real leather sheath through and through! I have several cheap knives that I'd still be EDCing every day if the sheaths would actually function correctly. Even the kydex sheath my TOPS Operator has is such a loose fit from the TOPS factory that the knife rattles when you walk. Well not the BPS sheath. Even after two weeks of being beat and banged around a lumber warehouse six days a week, it's still so tight that my coworkers can barely yank my BPS knife out of it's sheath (they struggle long enough i can stop them). I'm not sure what heat treat they do, but it's pretty fantastic. This knife came sharp, and a pass or two on my 1000 grit diamond sharpener and my strop and she was pretty much shave sharp. Most cheap knives won't come that sharp or even take an edge like that in the first place, then even if they did they don't hold it for long. I have to cut through these really thick plastic bands on units of lumber all day long at work and they just kill a knife's edge, even razor blades struggle with it. Most knives are dull to the touch in a week or less, but this Adventurer doesn't. It'll quit being shave sharp and it might have a rough spot near the tip, but again a few passes with a diamond sharpener and strop and she's back to shave sharp. BPS's 1066 carbon steel's performance is comparable to my Off-Grid Kives Caiman XL and Caiman XXL which have their Cryo heat treated D2 and a flat grind. (Picture of how cleanly this BPS Adventurer sliced paper included)I love the raw walnut scales BPS uses. Once I coated them in Ballistol they took on a nice rich color. There's no texture or finger grooves on them making them a little more difficult to grip, but nothing to complain about. They are no worse than what Buck Knives puts on their Buck 119.and even though my hands are covered in sweat all day( hot NC summer days inside an extra hot and humid warehouse) I can keep a firm grip on it. The only time I dropped it was from being careless. So if you're looking for a five inch knife that'll handle all of your medium and and light duty work then definitely buy this knife or another BPS model. Wether you're bush crafting or just want a superb knife you need a BPS knife. The only thing it won't do is chop down a tree, but that just means you get to buy an axe or a machete or a sword. Who doesn't want to do that anyway? Let's be honest!