I have.I went camping this weekend and brought along my Steve Dunn M.S Bowie. It has a 9" by 1 3/4" clip point blade that was forged from 5/16" 52100 steel. The blade is flat ground with a distal taper and weighs about 17 oz. I brought this particular knife along because I consisder it a light duty knife and since I wasnt bush wacking I figured it would be all I would need. I was wrong. I had forgotten that I would need to split the pre chopped fire wood that was provided at the cabin I was staying at. Well I was a bit worried because this knife has a fine point and is quite thin at the bevel.. its bevel is slightly convex but it is almost a zero bevel. This knife however literally kicked the wood's ass.The wood chunks on average were about 15 " long and about 5" in diameter. I split about 30 pieces of this wood into the necessary sizes by placing the edge on the wood and slamming on the spine of the blade using another piece of wood. At first I was pretty calm about it but after I realized how tough the blade was I was hammering it with full force. On one piece of wood the blade got stuck and as I was slamming the wood on the ground to free the knife... the point hit the gravel covered earth with alot of force behind it, I thought I had lost the point (being it was so thin) yet it was just scratched a bit. After all the splitting the knife's edge was barely dulled. This knife is tough as nails, and has a very comfortable handle, it also looks great.I absolutely love this knife. It was expensive,but well worth the price IMHO.
