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Ace do pack him a mean left jab.

Any knife with a blade over 4" is obnoxious.

Some Texan you turned out to be.

LoverOfMike,

I kinda blacked out here.

Apologies.

Have you considered a Winchester knife? I think Walmart has some.

So no chit their I was in Afghanistan at COP (combat outpost) Zormat. The Troop was getting ready to do an air assault into some chit hole Afghani village. One of the medics who was going was getting his chit ready. When he pulled out this ph ucking machete. I looked at my bud and looked at this medic and I asked what is this vietnam type chit. To take the weirdo factor even higher he starts ph ucking sharpening it. I asked wth you going to do with that machete. he goes man when the chit hits the fan I'm going to start chopping some [bleep] uckers up. At that point I ran out of questions and left him to his machete sharpening... Few days later found out he didn't have to hack anyone up with his machete.

Randalls are so 1970 you need a Benchmade..........

That's a funny story.

Why in hell when you are going for such historical accuracy and when blades have advanced so far since then, would you decorate it with African Blackwood? I'm pretty sure Rezin Bowie didn't have access to that shixt and probably didn't know what it was.

Randall who..?

Puma is your friend.

IIRC African Blackwood, like Central American Rosewood, was carried as ballast by returning ships. Rosewood in particular so common in England that Sheffield used it on their kazillion trade knives. I forget if the original Searles used Blackwood or ebony.

What will $1,000 get ya in a knife that a $100 knife won’t do just as well?

OTOH a hand-built replica Searles Bowie, as originally commissioned by Rezin Bowie hisself, would go with yer hand-built replica Dusenberg Torpedo:

https://www.mecum.com/lots/CA0813-161577/1930-duesenberg-model-j-torpedo-phaeton/

And while cars work so much better now, nothing says you can’t have modern steel in a Searles.

Or ya can drop $1,000 on something that looks just like the stuff they make in China <“shrug”>

two newest knifes.

In the 1830’s ANY big knife could be called a “Bowie Knife” when the big knife fashion hit. Most knives used in the US back then we’re actually made in Sheffield UK and the same soon was true of “American” Bowie knives.

At the Alamo I carry a replica Gravely and Wreeks Bowie, imported into Manhattan beginning in 1835. A fine read here for anyone interested in our history....

http://thefifthfield.com/swt/graveley-wreaks-bowie-knife/

Note, it was how the Brits advertised them as much as anything else that came to determine what style of knife we call a Bowie today. One imported Gravely and Wreaks design sold by them here as an “Arkansas Toothpick” was sold in Canada as as “Buffalo Knife” and in South America as a “Gaucho Knife”.

The best evidence suggests that Jim Bowie never carried or possibly ever saw the crossguard/clip point blades we call Bowie’s today, but the Brits, who made more Bowie knives used here than anyone else, sold that design of knife as a “Bowie” and so it eventually became, especially after the 1870’s, forty years after Jim Bowie’s death.

Rezin Bowie himself referred to these clip point blades in writing as “later designs”.

Another fine read here from Sherrif Jim Wilson on the same topic.

http://sheriffjimwilson.com/2013/12/26/bowies-knife/

I will say that while no blade expert, I’ve handled a couple of Uberti replicas which are naturally quite popular among Texian reenactors, and at a balanced heft of just 18oz they feel slim, light and quick in the hand. No idea how good the steel is.

https://www.dixiegunworks.com/index/page/product/product_id/2587/category/552/category_chain/551,552/product_name/KE6701+Bowie+Knife

Anyone mention Randall Pink?

Who made this one?

Another gem.

Do those come in green?

I have the Puma Bowie actually.

Whenever I've used it, it has made me wonder why Puma's are held in such regard.

i'll have to pm neil, he told but i done forgot. believe one of the guys who sell here on the fire.

Original Bowie knives were made in England by Shively. A friend of mine bought an original Bowie that was owned by Davey Crocket. It wasn't cheap but he had the money...

https://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/3097M/lots/17