Kukri or Bowie?

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Chicahiro Ishida

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For hard use in outdoor or fighting,Kukri and Bowie knife are good,But it only one,WHICH?


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Chic Stone
 
I would think that a Bowie qould be more versatile for taking outdoors, hunting , hiking, etc. Kukri would be better chopper but not for slicing, limited thrusting ability.
 
I agree that the bowie is much more versatile of the 2. However, if you are going to chopping lots of vegetation, the kukri probably would serve better.
 
I dunno. As many of you may remember from prior discussions, I have a romantic attachment to Bowies that goes back to Raymond Thorpe's book, the movie, "The Iron Mistress", and the TV show about Jim Bowie in the 1950s, so I would plump for the Bopwie, but the Ghurkas seem to use their knives for all sorts of purposes from chopping vegetation to chopping people to anything in between and lots else, besides.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller
 
take whichever one feels best in your hand cause both are excelent do it all knives.I use bowies and kukris and have not found either design wanting(assuming of course they where of decent manufacture to begin with)

Good Luck!
 
I am a major fan of Bowie knives, and always have been. Yesterday though, Yvsa from the forums here, brought by a Millenium 3 Kukri that he helped design. This knife was made for Himalayan imports. It was a true thing of beauty. 21 inches of glistening steel. 3 roses on the side. The sheath was phenominal. Overall the package stunned me by it superb workmanship and balance. I still like bowies, but kukri like that definitely impress me.

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Lynn Griffith-Knifemaker

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I have to vote for an HI 20" Sirupati Khukrui as more versatile, due to the fact that it's a fast fighter, bwtter chopper, and has a small utility knife included with it for smaller tasks. Khuks have differnet blade designs and balance points, so it depends on the style you are talking about.

That said, I'm a major league Bowie fan, and ya can't go wronfg with a good one!!

Best,

Brian.

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Chicahiro,

This is really a broad topic. It has been mentioned that there are many styles of kukris, there are innumerable styles of bowies. Can you offer some sort of standard by which each could be judged? Do you have a particular kukri or bowie in mind?

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Travis Autry
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Fox,Felix,
I can understand what you say!
But why I asked the ploblem,before I got CS Trailmaster Bowie,I went a mountain with Randall M5=4",Buck #650Nighthawk, and kukri.
In the camp,Kukri was very usual.It could dig,break wood to burn,and many porpose. I had ather knives to cook.

Lynn,
I'm a fan of Bowie,too!
But I felt for fighting and chopping, kukri is more powerful.

TAutry,
I imagind CS LTC kukri and Trailmaster or Randall M12 Smithsoniam Bowie.
They are standerd model I think.


I feel, this problem is depend on sub knives.If "only knife in the island",Bowie is better without doubt.
But if with fine drop point hunter? With the Microtech USSOCOM? With the Swisstool?
I feel very difficult to think combination.

I feel theory of knifefighting is different between Bowie and Kukri.As so,I feel difficult to think which is better,too.


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Chic Stone
 
Chicahiro, go back to your thread of last spring. In that thread, there was some discussion of the fighting forms of the Bowie knife, remember? It is a chopper, slicer, stabber, and, most effectively, can do the "back cut". With the help of some articles in magazines, I think that I have finally figured this one out, and, while I cannot describe it here, you can't do it with a khukri. In fact, I think that the only thing that the khukri does well is to chop, but I may be mistaken. Point is, despite my prior post, I wonder just how effective the khukri is as a general purpose choice.

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Walk in the Light,
Hugh Fuller
 
It doesn't matter. If you want to chop wood then the edge geometry in either form of knife will have to be far heavier than you would want for a good hunting knife. Either, one can deliver an effective blow, so which makes a better fighter will depend on you and your opponent. Given a choice, I would take both, they are excellent and proven designs.

O.K., maybe the bowie would be a little smaller to make it a better all around camp knife, and the kukri a little heavier for wood chopping. But the reverse would also work well. Then there is that ever useful SAK on every trip.
 
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Chicahiro you might want to check this one out.It's the best of both worlds.I haven't had a chance to really test mine yet,but it is one heckuva Bowie Knife!!!
http://www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/000938.html

This is the one I actually had a part in designing.I carved a wooden prototype and Uncle Bill sent it to Nepal.The kamis made it 98% of what I had carved.
The clip could be sharpened if it was wanted done.

The Millenuim III Special is one that several of us decided on what style blade we wanted.
There wasn't time for a whole new design that wasn't proven.

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Fullre,

I remember that disscusion!Yes, Bowie knife has many use,I know well.
I used kukri to chop, dig, strike, and cut bark. Why I felt good in the camp was,I carried Buck Nighthawk.It was small bowie could cut meet and vegitable!

Brian,

Thank you for this information!
I felt kukuri good for digging, too.

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Chic Stone
 
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