Can anyone recommend a full tang Bowie’s under $300? Maybe a full tang 8/10 inch blade

Eight tenths of an inch would be an oyster knife.

A Condor Plan A is a good choice

Esee junglass or junglass2

Probably won't find a better all around deal

Cold steel trail master
ESEE Junglas as mentioned
Check out TOPS knives for various big blades
Kabar big brother (USMC style knife on steroids)
Boker Arbolito

Just to name a few

I have one of these and have no complaints.

Don’t know if it’s full tang.

And for the price you can beat the shit out of it or lose it and not cry.

Just a hair under 8" is the TOPS Prather Bowie:



Cold Steel's 1917 Frontier Bowie is more of a short sword, but at 12" is interesting...



Case makes a monster bowie:



Just some considerations...

ROCK6

Classic Bowie style? Or are you more interested in the blade length?

That Kabar Big Brother looks cool but I can picture the blade and handle parting ways at sometime. There is also the Junglas 2 which is 2" shorter in length and makes it comparable to the Becker BK9 (which you may want to consider too).

Kabar/Becker  BK9

The thing is a beast.



And you can get aftermarket scales for it out of all kinds of materials and colors.

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Blade is just under 7" but they are beautiful knives. I honestly can't bring myself to take mine out of the box much less use it and try not get fingerprints all over it

Is the buck 124 a full tang,???

What about hoffner knives ?

As far as I can tell it is. Unless it has cutouts like the BK. It is comparable in size to the classic USMC Kabar fighting knife. As far as being a user knife? Well it will lose that shine quick with scratches and the blade doesn't have much heft to it so it wouldn't be my first choice for chopping. It is two things scary sharp and very pretty.

I really like these:

Lon Humphrey Gunfighter Bowie

I've been playing with an OKC "Chimera" lately.  Under $100 and in spite of the 8" blade it feels fairly light in hand.  The next larger knife I have on hand is a Cold Steel Trailmaster which is almost universally well liked by owners.

Paladin

Should have already been asked, "Is this for display or field use"?

Paladin

I had a rather lengthy post typed out asking the same question and giving my opinion about "bowie" profile blades for "hard use" but elected to delete it since I'll just get flamed by fans of the design. Glad someone else asked.

Here's my choice in a 10" knife ...




Busse Combat Fusion Battle Mistress "Battle Grade"

Blade Steel ... SR101 [this is the Battle Grade version ... "Combat Grade version would have INFI steel]
Blade Dimensions ... Approximately 10" long by 1/4" thick.

I've got this exact blade. It's a Bell Bowie in Dark Curly Maple.

"Hard use" is quite subjective, but I know where you're coming from.  For light chopping (more like vine clearing) and pig sticking, most will do just fine.  However, you want to replace an axe and do some serious chopping, digging (yeah, they can handle that), light prying, using a wooden baton to split small rounds, etc., I would really recommend something along the lines of the Busse (or their Swamp Rat series), BK9, some of TOPS designs, even Cold Steel's Trailmaster, etc.  

Weight is often a big factor for me as is location and even season.  For something light weight and good for leafy, green vegetation, sapling size cutting, and vines but with a little more reach than your typical 7.5" blade without much extra weight, the (sadly now discontinued) Buck Hoodlum is my top choice (I actually have the limited run of the original TOPS knives version).  It's not so much a heavy duty long knife but more of a handy knife with more length to serve as a short machete vice a heavy-duty chopper or axe:



Again, this isn't a heavy duty, large blade like Busse or some of the other 1/4" beasts, but for what I usually need it for it's perfect.  Tip strength is often a big concern with Bowie-style blades, just understand the purpose and match it to you needs.

ROCK6

Yes

Slightly over budget at $320, but the Fallkniven A2:

Bark River or Blackjack Classic.

For a little over $300 you could get a BK9 and a Junglas II.