When Mike Stewart told me that he had decided to make a modern incarnation of the Historic Searles Bowie, downsized into a hunter, I expected a very interesting knife.

He didn’t disappoint me. The Bark River Searles Hunter is a very cool knife.
Here are the specifics:
Overall Length: 9.5 Inches
Blade Length: 5 Inches
Blade Steel: 1080-C @ [...]

By Kevin Estella
Instructor Wilderness Learning Center

4″
It is the average size of a belt knife in most woodsman’s trios of tools. This of course comes from no scientific research or statistical analysis. This observation comes from years of working in the outdoors and witnessing what works and what doesn’t, what is popular and what isn’t [...]