Ka-Bar Bull Dozier Knife

by Ka Bar

Product Features

• Designed by bob dozier, the bull dozier features a stainless steel blade that measures 1-9/16-inch at its widest part
• Specifications: weight - 0.85 lbs.; blade length - 6-1/2"; overall length - 12-1/8"
• Shape - clip; stamp - ka-bar; edge angle - 20 degrees; steel - aus 8a ss; grind - hollow; handle material - zytel/kraton
• Integrated butt cap/guard
• Knife made in taiwan

Product Description

A drop-down attachment piece reverses using simple fasteners to switch the hard-plastic GFN-PA66 sheath from right-hand to left-hand carry.

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001H53Q94
• Item model number: 2-1275-8
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,527 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Who designed the sheath?, June 24, 2009

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Bargain Finder (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ka-Bar Bull Dozier Knife (Sports)

I can't vouch, one way or the other, for the quality of the knife itself. Although the knife was designed by a famous knife designer, the SHEATH must have been designed by Mickey Mouse. Here's why I say this: For starters, the snaps on the 2 'hold-down-straps' (for the knife handle), are so poorly aligned that it becomes a tug-of-war to bring the 2 straps together and get them to 'snap-closed'. It can take 5-10 attempts to secure the hold-down-straps around the handle. Then, when you un-snap it, the clasping action feels so 'wimpy' that it feels as if the snaps will wear out after (let's say) 50 openings and closing. Then there's the matter of the sheath itself. If you insert the knife all the way down into the sheath to the 'locking position', you get engaged in another tug-of-war to try to extract the knife from the sheath. It's so tightly locked-in-place, that you have to grab-hold of the sheath with one hand, and FORCIBLY (and I mean FORCIBLY!) pull the knife out of the sheath with other hand. (Believe me, I have other Kydex sheaths that lock the knife into place, but none of them require anything close to the strength it requires to extract this Ka-Bar from the locked-in position of its sheath.) As for the sheath size, it's so poorly designed that just a few insertions and extractions of the knife will wear-off the black coating from the wider portions of the knife, leaving visible scrathes on the knife's black coating. Then, as for the 'mounting' holes on the perimeter of the sheath, they are too far apart to accommodate Ka-Bar's standard "1480 Law Enforcement Belt Clip" that fits so many of their other knives. And, I could not find a Belt Clip anywhere online that would match the sheath 'hole positions' on this knife. What would have been so wrong if they had made the holes fit their standard "1480 Law Enforcement Belt Clip"? All-in-all, though, according to the other reviewer, the knife may be of good quality, as to how the SHEATH functions, it would have been better to just make it a plain, standard, leather sheath. [Follow-up: As to the well-intentioned reviewer that later said that some of us should have given the sheath more of a chance by extracting the knife several times to wear-down the tight 'catch', I want to point out that I wasn't about to keep inserting-and-extracting-and-inserting (etc.) the knife, as in my review, I said that "...just a few insertions and extractions of the knife will wear-off the black coating from the wider portions of the knife, leaving visible scrathes on the knife's black coating." In any case, I found another hard plastic sheath from a cheaper knife (on Amazon) that fits this Kabar even better than the cheap knife it was designed for. I think it goes by the name of "jungle master", or something like that.]

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A nice knife, September 25, 2011

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Rick55 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Ka-Bar Bull Dozier Knife (Sports)

I purchased 2 Bull Doziers, one for myself, and the other as a gift for a knife afficienado and Marine (I'm US Army myself). Although an Asian Ka-Bar, the quality level is very high. Full tang, of course. High-quality Aus steel holds an edge well. You can chop down small trees with this beast, with no damage to the blade. Balance is very good, and the knife grips well. You could run over the resin-plastic sheath with an M1 Abrams, and it wouldn't be scratched. Knife was a bit difficult to unsheath at first, but gets easier after sheathing and unsheathing 5 - 10 times. Overall, very pleased with my purchase from Amazon. Oh, my Marine buddy loves his Ka-Bar as well, and he rates it as his fave Ka-Bar, and he owns 6 now.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars We adjust handgun holsters don't we?, August 5, 2010

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JustAFilmGuy "JustAFilmGuy" (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ka-Bar Bull Dozier Knife (Sports)

First off...I completely agree that the sheath is a PITA! I also agree that unsheathing the knife could be dangerous...to oneself and to others. However, the knife is excellent..and has a thicker grip than similar knives..so the user can get a secure grip.

Q: Why is it a common and accepted practice to "break-in" a firearm holster (aka, sheath), if that holster is too tight, but to not break-in a knife sheath? Having said that, I have worked with the sheath and have my worked so that I can remove the knife by pressing against the sheath with my thumb.

Further...the "mouth" of this sheath is good and wide! It's annoying to spend upwards of a hundred on a fixed blade, only to find that the sheath mouth is a sliver of space, requiring the user to look closely at the sheath in bright light just to return the blade.