I personally own a bark river aurora knife and use it as my main woods knife. I've used that knife for everything that a knife should ever be put through, Including the mors kochanski strength test where the knife is driven into a tree tip first and you use the handle as a step ladder rung.
While I agree that a full tang knife is probably stronger, My knife, which is another of bark rivers skeletonized tangs has superb balance just behind the blade and the weight is just about all I would want in a knife. I think a full tang would be unbalanced and clumsy in comparison on a knife this size.
Tests that I've read about knife breakage actually show that knives will more likely than not break right at the point where the blade meets the handle. During hard use like batoning cross grain through wood. This happened due to the brittleness of the temper, not handle weakness. Full tang, Stick tang, or otherwise.
That being said I think that mostly it comes down to preference. I have an aversion to using stick tang knives, because the fulcrum point is going to be right where the tang is inside the handle when pressing down. I worry that the handle material could break at that point. Some long time full tang users might have similiar thoughts on skeleton tangs. I think though that most of these are in our respective heads. A knife handle will rarely if ever break under normal use, and even then what will break (second hand knowledge) is the actual steel rather than the handle.
So whatever floats your boat, but Bark river knives are the best knives that I have ever used and would trust the skeletonized tang and handle scales under any foreseeable circumstance. I could go on about A2 vs O1 or scandinavian vs convex but I won't.
And I think I'll call an end to this rant.
