Recommendation? Hunting knife design help

[Nick-D]

I understand the gap there in the Ricasso area and it’s common on big Bowie blades. But for me it adds a problematic area for cleaning and hanging up on something. When you arm is so far up the chest cavity you neck is touching the rib cage and your trying to cut things free blindly a catch point could be problematic. But if your just wanting to make a hunting knife styled blade then I think it looks good. I do like the gap instead of a notch you see at the end of edges. I can’t stand the little half circle notches. I like my blades edge to end right at the plunge cut. But I guess the question is this. Are you trying to design and build a duty specific knife or just in that style? But I also agree with Stacy that 4x3 is about right for a blade like that. It’s almost just as bad to have to much handle then it is to have not enough. Rarely are you holding a hunting knife with a full hand when dressing something out.

I would just round or angle the transition a little (like you see on bowies anyway) J Doyle style.

I've butchered countless animals (year round huning here in nz as well as home kill butchery) and never had an issue with the heel of the blade getting caught. The vast majority of the work is done with the tip of the blade. The only thing the heel is really used for is hocking the animal. Much easier to cut and free the trachia from the neck end than diving into the carcass anyway

The revised design looks great, I would just add a bit more belly to aid in skinning cuts and round the heel of slightly

 

[Natlek]

https://imgur.com/a/vqUMlOE

I tweaked the design to give it a shorter blade and shorter guard

I don t know but blade is still to wide to me .Handle should be around one inch where arrows are ....so blade is half inch more then that part of handle which mean it is about inch and half =38 mm wide .And that is at least 8mm more then i like ...just my opinion judging by the picture