Hossom Series

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I need a large outdoor/survival knife and looked towards the Hossom series. Which one would work best as a large outdoors knife? I am leaning towards getting the forester because it would be taking the job of the Ka-Bar heavy bowie. Also the bigger it is the bigger the logs it can baton and the better it can chop.
 
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IMHO it is too heavy and absolutelly the wrong steel for a big chopper, Jerry Hossom himself considered the 6,5 inch the best of the series.
But nevertheless try it out an post the results of a comparison of Forester vs. Kabar Heavy Bowie.

Agreed a very cool knife the Forester....

Cheers
 
I want the knife to excell as all-around outdoors knife. The Ka-Bar heavy bowie works like an all around outdoors knife very well. Thouhgh smaller one does cost quite a bit less.
 
I don't think you can have an "all-around" tool that will excel in every use you may have for it, I might be wrong. Try gutting a fish or cut tinder with a blade the size of the Forester.

Maybe consider a small to medium knife for food and similar tasks, and a large blade or axe for chopping? I think the Forester would do well for the latter.
 
I don't need to gut fish and if I do I can just use my Rat-1 or Leatherman core. I did a size and weight comparison of the knives.

Ka-bar heavy bowie: OAL-14.25in Blade-9in Weight-.9lbs Thickness-6mm
Forester: OAL-15 9/16in Blade-9 1/8in Weight-16.8oz Thickness-5mm
Forager: OAL-14in Blade-7 1/2in Weight-14.7oz Thickness-5mm
Woodlander: OAL-12 5/8in Blade-6 3/32in Weight-13.4oz Thickness-5mm
Dayhiker: OAL-10 1/2in Blade-4 3/4in Weight-7.6oz Thickness-4mm
 
At first I was looking at the woodlander and am thinking about that because it also I have seen it for about $60 cheaper than the forester.:)
 
sierra trading post has a good price on the 4" model...

tempting!
 
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