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I was looking around for a real new bowie knife! The ideal one I was thinking of for great field and form function was the once only production run BK-20 for a great field tool Well the WANT was never as strong as the wallet saying NOT AT THAT PRICE! of the ones I found. So I picked up the SP-10 I finally got out of the car for a check over/maintenance stuff, I know well its heft and hack and whackability of the blade having to use it when I forgot my other main blades for dealing with evil vile Botanical Tyrannicals that I smite with great delight and sadistic evil pleasure as a Veggie Freak eats a salad full of still alive plants and stuff that they chomp and chew to send that living plant to a horrible sadistic acid death in their stomach. (Atleast the meat I eat is already dead for me). The SP-10 has the same blade width and length about as that BK-20 but only no solid thumping and whumping hilt I think a big knife needs but from a price and use point of view the SP-10 is still one of the best tools and bang for the buck one can get for a big heavy use blade.
So I realized my first OKC knife the SP-10 is still one of the better blades I got and fills most of the "True Bowie" needs I got it for. I did get a CS Marauder but its not as a "Heavy Use" blade as the SP-10, but I found the hollow grind and curve of the blade makes it a great large fishing processing and fishing blade especially when walking in them smaller streams where the brush you need to clear isn't that big and heavy. I haven't used a floppy rapala knife ever since I got that one. But my CS Marauder seems to become a light to medium use knife. Where my SP-10 can well...do ALOT of things even things my SP-51s and SP-53s do. It may not do them as well as the more as those heavy use designed purpose blades but "Eh it works."
A few times when cold tired and exhausted the Hilt of the SP-10 kept my hand from slipping to far forward, the blade botaned well enough this winter, where using a hatchet or axe in the deep snow would of been more dangerous and would of needed snow cleared or a platform made to use it as safely as botaning (One main reason I love my SP-51 as it does that with any tough log.) I wasn't going out doing Tacti-Traning or TEST MY SURVIVAL SKILLS! I was just out checking a few traps and bunny snares and building a fire for Bunny On a Stick. And well just to get away from EVERY ONE for most of a day for about 18 hours. I took a few smaller pocket blades with me those times, and I only hand the SP-10 handy at the time, but I didn't take it to "Field Test" it, it was just the big blade I had around at the time, I knew it was one I could trust as much as my big 5160 blades. Think I used a 110 buck for the small bushy craft stuff. My RD7s were off line due to accidentally being packed in the wrong box for storage. I would done more playing...er Tactical Training...but well it was cold and that bunny really needed to be eaten and I had to move on to get back. My planning skills probably need to be worked on but I know enough what tools I need and the proper ones that will work when the more desired one is left behind do to forgetting it or just thinking "eh this will work" when I grab the SP-10.
The SP-10 is a great affordable one big blade option you don't have to worry to much about if price and not to worry about failure is a concern. Its not the latest greatest 200-500 uber bowie, but "Eh' It works." and works well when needed. Its more than good enough if you can get a long with no thumping and wumping hilts. (my SP-51 to me isn't totally 100% perfect but well its as close as one can get for affordability). Only thing "bad" I can say about the SP-5 is the swedge on it makes batoning a little harder, but its swedge gives it a more multi took function it looks like.
For those who want a good blade to use at a good price the SP-10 should be added to your potential tool/knife tool use. And if you want a good lookti-cool blade. Really its a really good true looking bowie to! Its a good Back to Bowie Basic for people who can get around there being no thumping and whumping hilt. (hint hint OKC!)
One thing to note is OKC's great Warranty and CS also will back up the blade where other ones like KA BAR will say you voided the warranty.
Why do I have only ONE SP-10? Well I got FOUR SP-51s (two general use, one for car, one for bug out bag) and TWO SP-53s (would say 3 but sis show's no sign of giving the one she "Borrowed" back), my money went to those blades. As I said before the SP-10 is my "Beater" blade, and it still works great when its called to duty, especially if some one forgot to pack another blade.
I was looking around for a real new bowie knife! The ideal one I was thinking of for great field and form function was the once only production run BK-20 for a great field tool Well the WANT was never as strong as the wallet saying NOT AT THAT PRICE! of the ones I found. So I picked up the SP-10 I finally got out of the car for a check over/maintenance stuff, I know well its heft and hack and whackability of the blade having to use it when I forgot my other main blades for dealing with evil vile Botanical Tyrannicals that I smite with great delight and sadistic evil pleasure as a Veggie Freak eats a salad full of still alive plants and stuff that they chomp and chew to send that living plant to a horrible sadistic acid death in their stomach. (Atleast the meat I eat is already dead for me). The SP-10 has the same blade width and length about as that BK-20 but only no solid thumping and whumping hilt I think a big knife needs but from a price and use point of view the SP-10 is still one of the best tools and bang for the buck one can get for a big heavy use blade.
So I realized my first OKC knife the SP-10 is still one of the better blades I got and fills most of the "True Bowie" needs I got it for. I did get a CS Marauder but its not as a "Heavy Use" blade as the SP-10, but I found the hollow grind and curve of the blade makes it a great large fishing processing and fishing blade especially when walking in them smaller streams where the brush you need to clear isn't that big and heavy. I haven't used a floppy rapala knife ever since I got that one. But my CS Marauder seems to become a light to medium use knife. Where my SP-10 can well...do ALOT of things even things my SP-51s and SP-53s do. It may not do them as well as the more as those heavy use designed purpose blades but "Eh it works."
A few times when cold tired and exhausted the Hilt of the SP-10 kept my hand from slipping to far forward, the blade botaned well enough this winter, where using a hatchet or axe in the deep snow would of been more dangerous and would of needed snow cleared or a platform made to use it as safely as botaning (One main reason I love my SP-51 as it does that with any tough log.) I wasn't going out doing Tacti-Traning or TEST MY SURVIVAL SKILLS! I was just out checking a few traps and bunny snares and building a fire for Bunny On a Stick. And well just to get away from EVERY ONE for most of a day for about 18 hours. I took a few smaller pocket blades with me those times, and I only hand the SP-10 handy at the time, but I didn't take it to "Field Test" it, it was just the big blade I had around at the time, I knew it was one I could trust as much as my big 5160 blades. Think I used a 110 buck for the small bushy craft stuff. My RD7s were off line due to accidentally being packed in the wrong box for storage. I would done more playing...er Tactical Training...but well it was cold and that bunny really needed to be eaten and I had to move on to get back. My planning skills probably need to be worked on but I know enough what tools I need and the proper ones that will work when the more desired one is left behind do to forgetting it or just thinking "eh this will work" when I grab the SP-10.
The SP-10 is a great affordable one big blade option you don't have to worry to much about if price and not to worry about failure is a concern. Its not the latest greatest 200-500 uber bowie, but "Eh' It works." and works well when needed. Its more than good enough if you can get a long with no thumping and wumping hilts. (my SP-51 to me isn't totally 100% perfect but well its as close as one can get for affordability). Only thing "bad" I can say about the SP-5 is the swedge on it makes batoning a little harder, but its swedge gives it a more multi took function it looks like.
For those who want a good blade to use at a good price the SP-10 should be added to your potential tool/knife tool use. And if you want a good lookti-cool blade. Really its a really good true looking bowie to! Its a good Back to Bowie Basic for people who can get around there being no thumping and whumping hilt. (hint hint OKC!)
One thing to note is OKC's great Warranty and CS also will back up the blade where other ones like KA BAR will say you voided the warranty.
Why do I have only ONE SP-10? Well I got FOUR SP-51s (two general use, one for car, one for bug out bag) and TWO SP-53s (would say 3 but sis show's no sign of giving the one she "Borrowed" back), my money went to those blades. As I said before the SP-10 is my "Beater" blade, and it still works great when its called to duty, especially if some one forgot to pack another blade.
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