Need a Frontier Bowie for SASS

[severtecher]

I have a friend at work in the market for a Bowie for show as in Single Action Shooters Society. Any production Bowie style knife you guys could recommend that looks "frontier" under say $100 will be gladly considered. Thanks fellas. kevin

 

[ashtxsniper]

Cold Steel Laredo Bowie.

 

[glockman99]

I have a Winchester Bowie that I bought at "Big 5" that was on sale for $30 that is just what your friend is looking for.

 

[glockman99]

Cold Steel Laredo Bowie.

...You can get one of those for under $100?...Where?

 

[Keith Montgomery]

Check out Atlanta Cutlery

 

[shecky]

I'd think something like a Old Hickory butcher knife would make a rustic, frontier looking, and inexpensive "Bowie".

A couple months ago, Backwoodsman magazine had a fun little article involving DIY transforming a Tramontina machete into a Bowie, by grinding a clip point and soldering on a brass guard. If you gotta have the biggest, frontieriest Bowie knife there.

 

[raythebigfoot]

...You can get one of those for under $100?...Where?

Second that. I know they've dropped the price but I've never seen it for that price!

 

[longbeachguy]

Cabelas has one on special for $39.99 that can be found at this link:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0006642512057a&type=product&cmCat=Search_Results_NYR&returnPage=cave_search1.jsp&QueryText=knife&N=61&Ntk=all&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&Ntt=knife&noImage=0

 

[ashtxsniper]

...You can get one of those for under $100?...Where?

You can get them on ebay sometimes. I just found one there with a buy it now of $109.00 and a few with bids under $100.00 .

 

[Keith Montgomery]

I love the description of that knife that Cabela's is selling, "This 14" knife is patterned after Jim Bowie's famous blade." No it's not.

 

[Jockohomo]

Check out www.sheffieldknives.co.uk for some nice traditional looking frontier bowies. The 6" model is in your price range.
I think bowies with aluminium pommels look wrong if your after the wild west style. Hard to beat a good crown headed stag bowie for the 'cowboy' look.
CAS Iberia do some although I don't think they do them in carbon, just stainless.
Again, I think you need carbon steel, which will develop a nice patina, to achieve the right period look.

Sorry, when I said Cas Iberia I really meant Muela.

 

[FullerH]

I have a friend at work in the market for a Bowie for show as in Single Action Shooters Society. Any production Bowie style knife you guys could recommend that looks "frontier" under say $100 will be gladly considered. Thanks fellas. kevin

Take a look at the Paul Chen Hanwei Forge Bowies at the attached link. I hsve a couple and they are very well made. I am using this link as it shows them all together in one place, but you can find them for about $20 less if you look around.

http://www.ebladestore.com/cgi-bin/...ives&sortorder=ret_price&brand_name=Paul Chen

 

[thedogpound]

I bought won of them winchester bowies my self here at academy sports last week for 14.99 cent! must of been tagged wrong or on sale but its my beater for around the camp site and have been hacking up tree limbs with it.Allright for the little money i have in it!

 

[severtecher]

Thanks fellas, that oughta satisfy his bloodlust eh?

and ya'll have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

[Grampa]

A bit over your price range, and nowhere near as fierce looking, but way more authentic, is the knife found here.

 

[Grubslinger]

The Cutlery Shoppe has the SK-5 Laredo Bowie for $105.00. I use mine for SASS shooting all the time.

http://www.cutleryshoppe.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=7909