Thanks. I decided to go with the Ka-Bar, because of the weight, thoughts here, and a few youtube videos I watched. One was by a Russian who really tested the hell out of it, far beyond what any sane person would do. Eventually he broke it, but that was after using is as a batton with a 10 lb hand sledge cutting across the grain of a 4x4 kind dried board. Why he did some of the things he did is way beyond me, unless he was just trying to see what it would take to break it.

I saw it used to cut logs for a campfire, then in batton fashion to cut the logs down, then to make feather sticks. It was used to dig cat holes in frozen ground, and to cut paracord for various tasks. Very impressive.