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Just when you think 2021 has got to be better than 2020, Bill Bagwell and Rush Limbaugh returned their talents to God on the same day, 2-17-2021.
I didn't start looking for Bill Bagwell Bowies on the internet until the next day and they had all been sold soon as they were put up.
But I kept googling and being more amazed at the prodigy from Louisiana.
Bill made a trophy Bowie at age 14 y.o. in 1958. It was seen pictured in the collection of a Frenchman, # 1 in the spread below to which I have added the numbers,
clockwise in a a circle of 21 Bagwell Blades apparently owned by one Frog:



This might be the guy who owns them, wearing the gold and jewel encrusted one (# 18 above) like a pendant on a gold neck chain:



How is this related to the .458 WM ?
A Bagwell Bowie is to survival knives as a .458 WM is to survival rifles.
That's how.
Subtitle of the magazine below: "The Cutting Edge of Survival"





No better knife, no better smokeless rifle chambering.
And bill was a master with a .458-grooved rifle to boot and told us how to make them very effective and pleasant to shoot.
Just like his Knives were very effective and pleasant to look at.
Nuff said.
Sir Jerry's Bagwell Bowie next to a .458 WM+ TBSS load says it well:



Back in time to the cover shots on the 1983 Bill Bagwell catalog/brochure, offered for sale for $295, or will trade for another year the owner does not have:





From his book that includes his 1984 to 1988 SOF feature articles and a later compilation of history and techniciana,
I think I was able to order one of those: BOWIES BIG KNIVES AND THE BEST OF BATTLE BLADES