Best chopper.

230grains

230grains

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Discuss? Don't add weight/ease of carry into the equation, nor running out of steam from swinging a heavy knife. What is the ULTIMATE chopper out of the battle mistress line? Don't say a MOAB, i'd be single if I dropped 2k on a blade.
 
the extra length of the NMFBM for the win! (opinion based on anecdotal accounts by other members)
 
I've chopped with each of the knives you listed, and if you can swing any of them without running out of steam, then the NMFBM is the best chopper.
 
I have use all for batoning and swinging through pine logs. For me the FFBM seemed to rip through the logs with more ease than the NMFBM. The NMFBM seems to be more like a cutting axe and sticks a little when sunk into moist wood, and the FFBM is more like a maul and is built better for splitting.

I always take the NMFBM with me whenever camping, and my brother-in-law always takes his FFBM. Both seem to do very well.
 
The only Mistress I have used is my FFFBM. She is quite a chopper and I greatly prefer using it to a hatchet or camp ax.
 
For me it's the CGFBM, it has enough weight while still being light enough as to not be too heavy for long periods of use and the balance is excellent for chopping.
 
Ankerson said:
For me it's the CGFBM, it has enough weight while still being light enough as to not be too heavy for long periods of use and the balance is excellent for chopping.
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But if a robotic arm was doing the chopping, the ffbm would probably be a better chopper or the NMFBM?
 
Not sure they are so close with different traits. Here's my 2 cents

FFBM is a stand alone chopper. Big brawny knife

Nmfbm awesome chopper, sexiest of the three, lttle better balanced with a little bit of ability to do some cutting task.

THe cgfbm is a complete package capable of doing nearly anything the others can do in a lighter package. It is better suited to most and more well rounded.

Regardless, Id always have a Culteleus back up with any of the above.
 
I've owned all of them (CGFBM, FFBM, FBMLE and NMFBM) and the NMFBM is easily the best chopper. The longer length, extra weight and convex edge help it outchop its sisters. Not that any of the others are slouches. The FBMLE would be the runner up, with the FFBM and CGFBM coming in after, in that order. They're all DEVASTATING choppers. The NMFBM hits like a freight train. The LE hits like a slightly less-heavily loaded freight train. :D
 
The NMFBM bites deeper and chops better with a factory edge, than the FFBM.

The FFBM has the weight, but with the thicker edge, it seems to push or bash the log around more without bitting in as deep.

The NMFBM's that were fatter (from knob creek), will outchop the regular CG NMFBM"s and the FFBM's. They are like the best of both worlds.
My Bama Clay will out chop my FBM, FBMLE, FFBM, and my CGNMFBM.

The NMFBMLE is the baddest though.:eek:
 
The FFBM and the NMFBM may be better choppers due to their size and weight, but for carrying on my side all day, and being very mobile in the hand, I'd have to go with the CGFBM..
 
I like the NMFBM best as a pure chopper. Weighs about the same as an FFBM but has a little more length, so develops a little more momentum, and with the slimmer blade bites deeper.

Personally, I thought it was interesting that after d-testing the FFBM, Noss so loved the blade that he bought another for his personal use. He later got a NMFBM and liked it so much better as a chopper that he subsequently sold his personal FFBM. Interesting to me because he's pushed the FFBM harder than anyone else I know.
 
Those NMFBMs are no joke. I feel bad for the guys who missed them- anyone who gets a hankerin' for one a little bit down the road is going to end up paying through the nose for 'em. Those things are going to be $$$$ in a year or so. They weren't exactly cheap when they came out, and I don't think very many of them were made.
 
WILL YORK said:
I like the NMFBM best as a pure chopper. Weighs about the same as an FFBM but has a little more length, so develops a little more momentum, and with the slimmer blade bites deeper.

Personally, I thought it was interesting that after d-testing the FFBM, Noss so loved the blade that he bought another for his personal use. He later got a NMFBM and liked it so much better as a chopper that he subsequently sold his personal FFBM. Interesting to me because he's pushed the FFBM harder than anyone else I know.
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This is why my first Mistress was an NMFBMLE. I saw his test on the FFBM and subsequently heard his opinion as Will stated and went right for the big one.

I will have others and the Bushwacker is at the top of my list.
 
230grains said:
But if a robotic arm was doing the chopping, the ffbm would probably be a better chopper or the NMFBM?
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I don't have a robotic arm. :D

When I use the CGFBM I really use it, it also clears brush extremely well. :thumbup:
 
Also, the NMFBM is "alot of knife" and needs to be respected. The NMFBM has tried to bite me, and the others haven't.
 
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