- Joined
- May 17, 2005
- Messages
- 587
Does anybody use one? Pros and Cons.
Folks, you need to make sure your profile email address is kept current. If you do not have a paid subscription, and get locked out of your account because you no longer have access to your listed email address? There is nothing we can do for you.
This is especially important now that we've instituted password compromise security - if your password is compromised elsewhere, you will be sent a verification email on your next login. If you don't have access to that email? Your account gets locked.
Help us help you, PLEASE.
What do you mean "real thing" and "decendant"?more i think about it that is a great question. would anybody out there use a traditional bowie as a hunting, camping, or fixed EDC ? lots of bowie descendants out there , but the real thing??? btw what does a REAL bowie look like? thanks . paul![]()
Actually, "what is a real Bowie knife?" is an excellent question, simply because we have absolutely no idea what knife (or more likely, knives) Jim Bowie actually owned and used. Most "experts" would agree that it was a large (9+ inch, and probably much longer), double-edged blade. The whole clip-point thing probably came afterwards.
Yes, many of our modern Bowie knives owe their design to the knives of the late-1800s. But let's not forget that Bowie didn't live in the late-1800s.
That said, this one gets carried a fair amount when I'm up in the high country. And yes, it gets used.
![]()
I submit to you that they carried different knives for different tasks and no one knife was an exclusive carry.
Probably the best resource on Bowie knives is Raymond W. Thorp's Bowie Knife: A Saga of Early America. Sadly, it has been out of print for many, many years, but your library may have (or have access to) a copy.