Good solid chopper under $100

BK9 is great for light-medium duty wood processing. I use one everyday around the ranch. Fantastic performance and value. But I also carry a $10 18" Tramontina machete for vines/grasses/light wood work.

Different tools for different jobs.
 
If money was a big factor would you recommend it as a survival/woods knife.? I know it can't perform as good as' let's we say a Becker BK9, but would you trust your life to this knife.

"I am the hunting knife, I am the talon, the beak and the fang of my master. My duty is ancient as is meat and blood"
"Eίμαι η μαχαίρα κυνηγιού, είμαι το νύχι, το ράμφος και το δόντι του αφέντη μου. Το καθήκον μου είναι αρχαίο σαν τη σάρκα και το αίμα"
 
I say again, as choppers go, your choices are quite simple

Condor Boomslang or warlock
Becker BK9, Becker Machaxe
Kershaw Outcast

Those choices, IMHO, make any other choices completely unnecessary
 
The Tramontina will easily out-chop the BK-9 once it's properly sharpened up. It's not even a contest. And yes--I'd trust a Tramontina with my life. This is coming from a guy who sells both. They're both fine tools and I'd take the BK-9 if I needed something more packable or planned on doing a lot of batoning--but otherwise I'd take the Tramontina any day of the week. Other people would choose otherwise, but I can only speak for my own experience. :)
 
My favorite chopper in your given price range is the Condor Hudson Bay knife. Condor really out did themselves IMO with this knife. It's a very nostalgic knife both in style and construction and a very respectable chopper. The blade profile is no nonsense and very tough seeing as it has little in the way of a point or tip.
 
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