I agree with the chopping concept, if you have a knife big enough for that it's a clunky hatchet. I think the Kuhkri was originally made as a sort of combination machete and short sword, sidearm in the Indian or Pakistani armies. The camp knives you get here are mostly toned down versions. It's not really meant for the uses we favor.

I always carry a knife style knife, and I take a light tomahawk, a custom single bevel type I talked a smith in Montana into making for me. I know enough about smithing to know he's a lot better than I am. Haven't regretted that, you can chop with a knife but the tomahawk works. By the time you start on something with a knife, the tomahawk is finished already. No contest there.

JimmyTH