My favorite is a Murray Carter boot knife, nine and a quarter inches overall with buffalo horn handles. The quarter inch thick three-layered blade is 5 inches long. Murray does an absolutely super job at an extremely competitive price. (I bought mine from him at the Las Vegas show last February, and had the added enjoyment of talking knives with him for about an hour or so.) My second favorite in this category is a SOG Desert Dagger with a brass guard and stacked leather grip.