Becker BK9 or Ontario SP10 Marine Raider or Ka-Bar Heavy Bowie?

battboy said:
on knife tests thought the becker only got two "stars"
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Do knife tests go through typical and hard use of the knife? No, they just do stupid sh!t until it breaks! Knife tests is retarded!

I have chopped and batoned with my BK-9 and it is plenty tough enough for any KNIFE tasks including 'hard use'. 2 stars on knife tests really means nothing to me.
 
sorry to resurrect a year old thread, but I am really stuck between these two knives, I havent held either, and have only seen a sp10 in real life once, I just want to know from someone who has used preferably, both knives, which one is the better chopper, everyone always disregards the sp10 because it is too heavy, but weight isnt a problem for me.

so despite the smaller length and weight, can a bk9 out chop an sp10?
 
Voracious Souls said:
sorry to resurrect a year old thread, but I am really stuck between these two knives, I havent held either, and have only seen a sp10 in real life once, I just want to know from someone who has used preferably, both knives, which one is the better chopper, everyone always disregards the sp10 because it is too heavy, but weight isnt a problem for me.

so despite the smaller length and weight, can a bk9 out chop an sp10?
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No.... the Marine Raider sp10 will out chop almost anything, including ontario Machetes, Heavy Bowies, BK9's and I even think it chops heavy branches as good or maybe even better than my Golok which is a much longer knife. The sp10 Raider is a heavy Brute make no doubt about it, but that weight is mostly out front, and its a chopp'n fool.
 
I have all of the above, plus a bunch more. I'd enter the Ranger RD 9 into the mix, along with some of the Ontario 5160 Generation 2 knives in the same category. If 1095 is mandatory , Ranger has the "bush" line with 1095 instead of 5160,which is a tougher steel than 1095.

Lots of good stuff to choose from in the price range.

Joe
 
All three are good knives. You really can't go wrong with Ka-Bar or Ontario. I have the Becker BK9 and it is probably one of the best choppers around. But many people are happy with their heavy bowies and BK10's.

I also have an RTAK II but I haven't had a chance to try it out. The handle is really big and I had to reprofile the handles to get a comfortable grip. The balance is a bit handle-heavy because the tang is not skeletonized like the becker, so I plan to drill holes in the tang to shift the balance forward.
 
The RTAK 2 is listed as 1095, not 5160 at Ontario and at Knifecenter. There is an Amazon listing where it calls it 5160.

Was it a knife that used to be made in 5160 or is that just a typo because it's made in 1095 now?


Joe
 
The Mastiff said:
The RTAK 2 is listed as 1095, not 5160 at Ontario and at Knifecenter. There is an Amazon listing where it calls it 5160.

Was it a knife that used to be made in 5160 or is that just a typo because it's made in 1095 now?


Joe
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I'm about the farthest thing from an expert on the subject but my understanding was the RTAK II was 1095 but the RD-series (at least the RD9) was 5160.
 
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