Sounds like a midnight manager! I have one on me every day.
The Midnight Manager is definitely a top-tier EDC option. The only problem would be the hordes that argue that the SAK 3 blade is lighter and as useful. There's also the "Tool Chest" variant. I sometimes wonder if the Midnight Manager and Swiss Tool Chest variants were combined that this would be the perfect thing to combine with a LRI coin cell light on the split ring. I'm a big fan of the SAK executive and Photon 2 or Freedom Micro as a pair. It's also hard not to recommend a Kershaw Chive paired with that LRI coin cell light.
You eat possums? But someone else kills them and skins them for you?
Some of the "field market" folks I know will not accept skinned small game if it's got the feet cut off. You don't know if it's opossum, raccoon, or cat. Just saying.
I like to carry decent-sized knife. Not for skinning possums, but because it works better than a tiny knife for cutting bagels and so on.
My decent sized knife is only 2 3/4" sharpened edge. The spine of the blade is very thick, however. It's a pretty durable option, the knife itself is more durable than any edge that can be put upon it. With leather stropping, I've shaved with this knife on two occasions on road trips because of logistics.
Just my attempt at humor. I'm not knocking big knives. I just don't have the lifestyle that would provide uses for them. Like I said...open a box...cut a piece of string, that's about it. I really like to look at quality knives I just don't use them.
You might look into the "Rough Rider" brand and the model "The Smallest of the Small." I find it's quite useful as far as what you've said when you also have an AAAx1 light to hold on to with the knife attached. I use mine two digits a week, and the thing closed is smaller than a dime. It's one of my most used knives.
I like bigger knives but don't have a reason to carry one. I do enjoy going to knife shows though. And ah no...I don't actually eat possum. I eat chicken parm but possum parm does have a ring to it.
I'm lactose intolerant. Possum parm would twist me up inside. My best advice for eating them is to trap and cage them. Give them worming medictation and feed them clean food for about a month. The problem then comes up that you're spending more on possum food than if you went to the grocery store. Don't get me started on armadillos.
Just my attempt at humor, too. For me, knives are kind of like flashlights... once you start carrying one, you find more and more uses for it and soon, you can't leave home without it.
Two blades, bare minimum. Even if one is tinier than a blade of grass, those seem to the both the most useful and the ones least likely to scare the random passerby. "ZOMG! ITS A KNIFE!"
Take it from a country boy... stick with the chicken parm. ;-)
Ahh, but have you tried baked chicken and couscous with rosemary and olive oil?
I better clarify that by saying I have never actually tried eating opossum, but after a couple of close encounters (including carrying one who was "playing 'possum" off my porch) I am sure it is nothing I care to try unless it is a last-ditch effort to ward off impending, imminent starvation.
You haven't had "plate fright" until you've finished shelling out an armadillo and the lady of the house arrives just in the nick of time to inform everyone that there's no way in perdition's flames that this item will enter her kitchen stove. My advice? Lots of garlic and red/black pepper infused butter. Even though I'm averse to dairy products, that combo is dynamite for wild game in my humble opinion.