I think as a hunting knife its functionality is pretty obvious. I am saying, though, that it’s a physical possibility with this knife. I do not recommend shooting sparks at people with it, and, for example, shouting “fireball!” over and over again, because that would be a dangerous thing to do, and you would think the novelty of it would wear off pretty quickly. If I wanted to (and I usually do), I could send sparks flying several feet with it. And to top it off, the spine of the blade works like magic on a ferro rod. After I got used to how it cut I started making some good fuzz. When I started testing it I was ready to slam it for making shavings that were too thick, but after a couple passes I realized I just needed to get better at feather sticking. I actually had to be careful how I held the knife, because it would start making curls no matter what angle I was coming in at. It gives you tons of control while feather sticking. The Spyderco Moran is for slicing and that is the range you really need to keep it in.Įverything in that range is frighteningly easy with this knife, though. Not batoning or chopping, and that’s really important to remember in the context of so many thick-spined “hunting” knives being made as hybrid survival and skinning knives. That’s what I plan on doing anyway.Ĭheck Price on Blade HQ Check Price on Amazon So if you hear anyone call this a Bowie you should immediately correct them, and be as annoying about it as possible. Spyderco lists it on their site as either the Moran drop point or the Moran upswept. Spyderco’s Moran “Bowie” is certainly good for hunting, but I wouldn’t put toughness in its top features (at least not in the blade), and even though it has a mean edge and point, I wouldn’t want to use it to defend myself. I feel like the heart of the Bowie, besides the upswept or clipped point and the hand guard, is a tough knife that can be used for both hunting, fighting, and just all around hard-use survival tasks. If someone told me that Spyderco had made a Bowie knife and then showed me this thing I would look over their shoulder to look for what knife they were talking about. There’s not really anything about the knife that makes me want to call it a Bowie, and I’m pretty open to using that term loosely. I do want to address the fact that the upswept version of this knife gets listed as a “Bowie” by a lot of vendors, though, because it isn’t one. This is a review of the drop point version specifically, because I’ve never been all that comfortable with upswept blades. Someone told me it looked like I was holding a toy
#DROPPOINT BOWIE FULL#
Pros Sharp factory edge with a full flat grind
This knife was not made for fighting or smashing through a log with another log, but if I’m being honest, I usually only do that because it looks cool in pictures. It might not be so great for the crazy-person tests we normally put fixed blades through, because the edge does have a fragility problem. Everything you should reasonably expect to do with a knife, the Spyderco Bill Moran does in flying colors.
It slices well, it carves well, it spits fire on a ferro rod, it’s comfortable in the hand, it’s well balanced, and sits light in a versatile sheath. So here it is: Spyderco made a good hunting / camping knife, somehow. I’m going to write a bunch of other words below this sentence, but only because my girlfriend is tired of hearing me rant about my surprise at Spyderco coming out with a good hunting knife, and I need an outlet. I love this knife and you should have it too. A Great Hunting and Camping Knife that’s Made for Slicing not for Hacking
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