What is the largest knife you actually use?

The biggest ... Becker BK9 and a CPK Medium Chopper get regular use in the yard and camping/hunting (setting up blinds). I do chop and baton with both, but I also wittle stakes and use them in food prep sometimes as well. I have in a pinch used the BK9 to cut deer steaks when one of the guys misplaced my breaking knife and it did a pretty fair job of it.

The BK5 & BK15 are some of my favorite meat processing blades. We go through 25 to 35 deer in a season and a few cows and hogs so they get lots of use. Top 3 are long time users the bottom 2 are ready to put to work when needed they just need stripped and thinned a little like the others.

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The biggest folders would be CRK large 21s or Inkosi and Spyderco Stretch XL and Military 2. There are lots of 3" to 4 1/2" fixed blades that see daily carry/use and a fair number of 5" to 6" fixed blades that get carried and used in the woods or on the farm or jobsite that would easily pass the 50 cuts standard.
 
JJ_Colt45 said:
The biggest ... Becker BK9 and a CPK Medium Chopper get regular use in the yard and camping/hunting (setting up blinds). I do chop and baton with both, but I also wittle stakes and use them in food prep sometimes as well. I have in a pinch used the BK9 to cut deer steaks when one of the guys misplaced my breaking knife and it did a pretty fair job of it.

The BK5 & BK15 are some of my favorite meat processing blades. We go through 25 to 35 deer in a season and a few cows and hogs so they get lots of use. Top 3 are long time users the bottom 2 are ready to put to work when needed they just need stripped and thinned a little like the others.

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The biggest folders would be CRK large 21s or Inkosi and Spyderco Stretch XL and Military 2. There are lots of 3" to 4 1/2" fixed blades that see daily carry/use and a fair number of 5" to 6" fixed blades that get carried and used in the woods or on the farm or jobsite that would easily pass the 50 cuts standard.
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How I wish BKT BK5s and 15s were still available.
 
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Alone Alone your radio silence here is deafening.
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Yeah, Mea culpa, Brother. The original post brought out the "cynic" in me.

I read it as some kinda' "challenge", like "Show me all your 4-inch 'bushcrafty sh!t' so that I can prove that guys who carry large/robust knives never use them for anything other than baton'ing."


My Family has had some acreage, in South Texas, that we've been using as a "hunting lease", for about the last quarter-century.

I've left these two knives at the mercy of many drunk-ass hunters...on the wood pile, on the cutting table next to the grill, and around the game grambrel...for a few years... (*many times overnight, and sometimes in the rain)



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I've watched many a hunter use them to hammer thru and separate the hip/shoulder joints of whitetail/feral hogs, split firewood for the grill, and cut sausage/fajitas/ribs on the cutting table. I've also seen them use the above knives to cut rope/cordage to secure their sh!t (*blinds/feeders/etc.) onto their trucks when leaving for the season. (*I've done much of the same)

I rarely let anyone use my knives. With that, I've only left these two knives as "sacrificial lambs" because I feel that both are damn-near indestructible.



There it is...a couple of large/thick knives that have been used. I'm reckon that I'm breaking my silence. 🫤
 
Alone said:
Yeah, Mea culpa, Brother. The original post brought out the "cynic" in me.

I read it as some kinda' "challenge", like "Show me all your 4-inch 'bushcrafty sh!t' so that I can prove that guys who carry large/robust knives never use them for anything other than baton'ing."


My Family has had some acreage, in South Texas, that we've been using as a "hunting lease", for about the last quarter-century.

I've left these two knives at the mercy of many drunk-ass hunters...on the wood pile, on the cutting table next to the grill, and around the game grambrel...for a few years... (*many times overnight, and sometimes in the rain)



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I've watched many a hunter use them to hammer thru and separate the hip/shoulder joints of whitetail/feral hogs, split firewood for the grill, and cut sausage/fajitas/ribs on the cutting table. I've also seen them use the above knives to cut rope/cordage to secure their sh!t (*blinds/feeders/etc.) onto their trucks when leaving for the season. (*I've done much of the same)

I rarely let anyone use my knives. With that, I've only left these two knives as "sacrificial lambs" because I feel that both are damn-near indestructible.



There it is...a couple of large/thick knives that have been used. I'm reckon that I'm breaking my silence. 🫤
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Ha! Nobody uses a knife like an inexperienced hunter asking to borrow your knife. Oddly, I've had at least 3 of them dramatically stick a knife into the ground while field dressing, expecting it to stay upright. Instead they penetrate the 1/4-1/2" of topsoil and glance off a piece of flint instead, all but destroying the tip. You're a braver man than I.

I always carry smaller fixed blades for minor and/or precise tasks but, like you, i gravitate towards larger blades for tougher jobs. My Trail Master seems to get more work as time goes on.

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I've also got a solid rotation of field knives that are used equally, depending on how I feel at any given moment.

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Also, I may have lied earlier; My CS Talwar might be the largest folder I use on a regular basis. Not much it can't handle.

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Nepalese Kukri, like 16 inches with the handle. One of these days I am going to redo that sheath, but it involves more skill than I have right now. I use it for navigating the uncivilized part of my property. It is a mean, tough knife. This one was recently used for basal bark herbicidal treatment (chop around the tree exposing the cambium, then spray trichlorpyr on it - kills Chinese Privet and mildly irritates Tree of Heaven). Sure, I could do it with a hatchet, but it is just more fun with this knife.
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daily_grind said:
Nepalese Kukri, like 16 inches with the handle. One of these days I am going to redo that sheath, but it involves more skill than I have right now. I use it for navigating the uncivilized part of my property. It is a mean, tough knife. This one was recently used for basal bark herbicidal treatment (chop around the tree exposing the cambium, then spray trichlorpyr on it - kills Chinese Privet and mildly irritates Tree of Heaven). Sure, I could do it with a hatchet, but it is just more fun with this knife.
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In 1973 I did my first of many Winter Warfare Exercises, this one at then Camp Drum, NY. I had an Atlanta Cutlery Kukri, lucked out and got one with a good heat treat, steel was hard. Everyone laughed at my "Big Knife" until it turned out we had to make Survival Shelters, then it was "Hey, when you are done, do you think I could use that knife to build my shelter?" John
 
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I have a couple of Busse Short swords but I have never used them. I bought this Cold Steel Flight of the intruder Bowie that was used when I got it, so I did not have a problem taking it on camp outs and using it some. I really worked pretty well for making tinder for fires.Cold Steel3.jpg

I also used this Tops El Chete when I lived in Hawaii to clear out the Banana plants and cut down Coconuts in my yard.

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