Unsub, thanks for the compliment! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Your taste is equally impressive!
On the subject of Entrek,here are the two knives I went for as potential replacements for the Benchmade and Outfitter which due to sentimentality I was considering retiring so they would stay safe.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> but not necessarily living in one!
The first Entrek is similar to the Marauder but perhaps a better blade design. It retains the "bolo" shape so chopping is excellent but has a limited clip edge so that batoning does not damage the baton or the knife.
The Destroyer
and the Badger
I thought I would go for a fixed small blade which I can carry inverted on my webbing on the left shoulder. The fixed blade works easier for cleaning and for food prep and does not gather muck inside the frame like a liner lock which needs to be dismantled to clean effectively. The Badger you can just sterilise in boiled water.
The Destroyer took me a day to re-grind the edge to 25 degrees....the Badger was much quicker....I hear a lot about people putting convex edges on chopper knives but in the field you don't have a ready supply of wet and dry paper to put over a cut-down mouse computer board to get that "curved" appleseed effect. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/sad.gif" alt="" /> You have to keep it simple and go for a straight grind.
Got to agree as well with the PGW Timberwolf .338 being a great rifle. It would be my choice if we could pick one!
Edited to add that I have just noticed the B.O.L.O.S. post by Horn Dog and fully support this for a Bolo Scrapper.....I really like using this type of blade.....they are just that bit easier and a bit more versatile than a Kukri for my money's worth....