With unforseen disasters ever looming, global warming, asteroids, floods, earthquakes, storms, terrorist attacks, recession, gas rationing, bad breath, locusts, and the Second Coming, it is prudent to have a good camp knife. I should sell all but one and buy a generator. Today I took a few of mine out back to compare with my new Bark River Hudson Bay Camp Knife. It is a copy of the original camp knife made by Hudson Bay for use in the North American frontier in the 1700s. It has an 8" blade of A2 steel with a full convex grind. It is .215" thick at the spine, but is actually thinned to about 3/16" by the grind, about the same as the Busse Sarsquatch.

top to bottom: Swamp Rat Chopweiler, Busse Sarsquatch CE, BRKT Hudson Bay, Swamp Rat Ratweiler.

Here the HB is between two Ranger RD7s, which I consider camp knives.

And here it is with the Entrek Destroyer bolo and the Sheffield MOD4 Survival knife.

And of course, here it is with a knife that actually has "camp" in its name, the legendary SR Camp Tramp.

So now we know how it compares in size to the other 7" to 8" blade camp knives.