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I love my new Buck 119. There is nothing out of the ordinary about it. It is the plain jane black one (which someday i might get customed with stag handle but for now is good). I look at it and just can't get over how good looking that knife is. to me it screams classic western americana and goes beatifully with my Ruger super blackhawk in .44 .it is more akin to what a cowboy would have carried than a great big bowie knife (see AG Russell quote below). i have wanted one since i was a kid and watched crocodile dundee and to me it looked just like his- blood groove- shiny butt and as a kid it was proportionately as big to me as dundee's knife was to him.
this is what AGRussell says about cowboy knives...
"Cowboy Action Shooting is about romance, not reality. When I was a boy many of the real people these enactors are portraying were still alive and my father introduced me to some of them. A Texas Ranger with two big Bisley Colts kept my eyes bugged and my mouth shut while he and my father talked. It is easy to forget that 100 years ago men dressed in the shield front shirt and stripped pants would go for months between baths while working in heat and dust moving cattle from home range to market. While their clothes may have been neglected, their gear never. Rifle, pistols, and knives were kept as well as they were able.
Everyone knows what guns they carried, but few know about the knives. The most likely knife for a horseman to have carried was one with a blade no longer than 5 to 6 inches. In those days it was in all likelihood something with a "Bowie" shape. Enter the "Hunter's Bowie" a knife made by all cutlers of the day. This "small" bowie was useful in every way needed in that day; slicing bacon, opening cans of peaches, or cutting a tangled rope."
this is what AGRussell says about cowboy knives...
"Cowboy Action Shooting is about romance, not reality. When I was a boy many of the real people these enactors are portraying were still alive and my father introduced me to some of them. A Texas Ranger with two big Bisley Colts kept my eyes bugged and my mouth shut while he and my father talked. It is easy to forget that 100 years ago men dressed in the shield front shirt and stripped pants would go for months between baths while working in heat and dust moving cattle from home range to market. While their clothes may have been neglected, their gear never. Rifle, pistols, and knives were kept as well as they were able.
Everyone knows what guns they carried, but few know about the knives. The most likely knife for a horseman to have carried was one with a blade no longer than 5 to 6 inches. In those days it was in all likelihood something with a "Bowie" shape. Enter the "Hunter's Bowie" a knife made by all cutlers of the day. This "small" bowie was useful in every way needed in that day; slicing bacon, opening cans of peaches, or cutting a tangled rope."