That reviewer got it wrong. The chopping portion of the Tracker is the curved front edge. The other part is for splitting, notching, and use as a draw knife. The sweet spot on the Tracker is just in front of the "hook" at the end of the draw knife section. Unfortunately, he never actually used the knife. Pitman demonstrated some very good capabilities of the Tracker over on BF. As I said, I prefer a more conventional design, like the Ratweiler or SOD, but with a good edge on it, the Tom Brown Tracker is quite a capable survival knife. Since I no longer have the Tracker, I cannot do a comparison with a Scrapper or other Busse made knife, but personally, I'd chose a Scrapper 6 or SOD over the Tracker. The Tracker is heavier than a Busse FBM and costs nearly as much. But pitman loves his. As long as TOPS keeps selling these blunt boat anchors, I'll have fun regrinding them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />