As for replacing a Battle Rat, I think the Dog Father might just have gone past the optimum size and heft for a chopper while the Battle Rat is just about perfect.
I'm not following. The BR is 9 1/2" long; the DF is 10" long. Is 1/2" going to make that big of a difference?
No, the difference is bigger than that. I just measured pure edge on my old Battlemistress, my new battlemistress and my Battlerat. Both BM's are nearly 1.25 inches longer in blade length. That is from where the edge starts at the ricasso. So they have 15% more edge.
If you measure the Battlerats edge it is actually 8 inches. The BM's are 9.25 inches of edge length. The Battlerat has more steel between the end of the handle and the beginning of the edge than the BM's. 1.25 inches of edge is a lot.
So if the DF is similar to the old BM's in length I would prefer that.
