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I modded my bushman up a while back, turned it into a drop point, added a finger choil, cut an inch off the handle and took off the blade coating.
Turned out great but I may have softened the edge near the tip from grinding.
Oh well, it was only 20 bucks!

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This is before the inch came off the end, and I put black grip tape on it to match better.
 
Hey Guys...

Marcelo..

No problem at all Sir...

Hikeeba...

Nice looking rig...

Liam....

I like that....

Looks like a completely different knife...

Heres the sheath I make..

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Eric
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Dang it, you guys have got me all fired up again, wanting to buy one of those and mess around with it! :D
 
mp510 said:
I like the Bushmans. As I said before, and will say again, my only problem is the size. If they could bring the blade down to, say 4", I would be all over one.
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They used to make one but I think they stopped, probably due to the fact that it didn't "translate" well to a smaller piece. I see now you can still get the small bushman.
 
sunnyd said:
I only have confidence in a full tang knife that has good carbon steel that is well ground with a very fine heat treat that has been well tested in extremely frigidly freezing cold weather conditions over and over(as this is the true test for blade stress and breakage situations) again.

If it is comfortable to use in all the survival situations that I will call on it for, and it will not break apart under any of these conditions, then and only then I will be able to stake my life on it.. After all the most important tool a man has in the wilderness in a live or die situation is his knife.

IMO, One must be able to count on his knife not to fail. If you can purchase this type of knife for $25. I would be very happy to know where and by whom it can be had.
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I see you working. Here in VA in never really gets frigid cold so I can't speak on those terms but it holds up into the teens, so no complaints on that front. I can't see breaking this knife under realistic working conditions. What temp do you think is to low to maintain the bushman's integrity?
 
EmsRescueGuy said:
Why would this Piss anybody off ??

If you read this forum often enough you would see that we did a thread a week ago on Bushman survival kits, and that we talk about moras and Sacs far more than Sebenzas and Busse's.

We all like nice knives and those who can afford them buy them, but we all also appreciate the basics.

I once heard someone say " Any iddiot can buy a good $500 bottle of wine but a connasuer (sp) can find a $20 bottle thats just as good"

I believe the same is true of knives.
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Yeah I'm new to the forum so I just jumped on in. I'm no expert or even close to it I just like good knives.
 
JayAndersson said:
For non-finesse applications I use Moras (Frost) which are even cheaper than the Bushman. Alone in the forest in a survival situatin I'd pick a Mora over a Sebenza.

For 20$ I'll try a Bushman, thanks for the tip. I'm however a fan of stainless so I might not be that excited.

Spanish wines are very good for the pricetag. Just about any Reserva from the Rioja district is good, my favorites are Campo Viejo, Marquis the Arienzo and Muga. They are 8-18$.
//Jay

PS. Skip french Champagne and go for the spanish version "Cava". Costs as wine but Champagne level quality.
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If you do make the purchase I don't think you will be disappointed, especially when you see how sharp it comes right out of the box. All three I owned were really sharp right away.
 
hikeeba said:
How DARE you Sir! Content with a Cold Steel Bushman? Why that's absolutely, positively preposterous!!!

Ha! Here's mine sporting a new jacket:

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The sheath still needs a little tweaking. My Bushman had been relegated to the garage for landscaping duty for the last 6 years or so. My interest in the knife had been rekindled recently, so I thought I'd give it a new sheath and tote the knife along on a few adventures this year. It has always proven to be a competent performer, regardless of what tasks were thrown at it.
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Nice sheath.
 
Sometimes I'm a slow learner. I just got familiar with Cold Steel's Bushman about three months ago. They were being sold for $20 I think in their Christmas sale flyer that came out last November, and the best deal was two for only $30. I got two! Anybody who has read my other posts knows I'm a cheap SOB, so the Bushman really appeals to my frugal nature. Now if I knew I was going to leave the house and never return I'd take with me a couple of Cold Steel's heavier duty knives. But if I was caught with "only a Bushman" I'd feel pretty darn good about having it. When Lynn Thompson gives them away to his native helpers he's probably giving them the greatest gift they would be able to make use of, and I'm sure they really appreciate them. It's a shame CS has already discontinued the Mini-Bushman. Not only should they bring it back, but they could also extend the blade on the Bushman to 12 inches and turn it into a fine short machete, perhaps with a modified edge better suited to chopping. A set of three sizes of the Bushman knives would go very nicely in a bush kit I believe. :thumbup:
 
Those sheaths take the bushman to the next level. The only thing that really sucks about the bushman is that crappy open sheath. The mora belt sheaths kind of lack too, but eh.

The black coating is pretty good at keeping the rust away, just wipe it down a little oil and you should be alright.
 
Normark said:
Hey Suuny.. Actually the most important tool man has in the wilderness is his mind....
Eric
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Eric,
Perhaps you should look up the definition of the word tool in the old Websters reference..

Sorry, I do not mean to cause you any embarrassment over your statement above, however, I must point out that taking the word: mind=brain out of context and equating it in direct comparesent to the word: tool in this discussion is unproductive and without meaning.
 
bowdriller said:
I see you working. Here in VA in never really gets frigid cold so I can't speak on those terms but it holds up into the teens, so no complaints on that front. I can't see breaking this knife under realistic working conditions. What temp do you think is to low to maintain the bushman's integrity?
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I am not sure at this particular moment, but give me a little time and I may be able to assist you and us here with that question as I have already ordered one last night directly after reading your thread. I was quite intrigued by what you had submitted here and want to run some basic tests myself with the Bushman.

Although in my local,, temperatures rarely dip below the high 30's. However, I can tell you that I have seen first hand more than several so called "survival" type factory and custom knives fail miserably during field test outings far north of my location in the severe cold back a few years ago.. Most of these knives blades broke either just above the handle, about half way up the spine or there abouts, and or right at the tip. The one thing they all had in common was very cold temperatures(below 30*F) while working chores during blade stress of some kind.. And this is my point in my earlier post guys.. I am not trying to be silly, I am just trying to be realistic. In these situations or any others, no person wants there knife to fail.. Do they?
 
The instructors of the survival school I attended, all of them retired Air Force PJs, issued a Bushman as standard gear to all students. With it, we learned to make shelter, fire, traps and snares, prep food, and do all the other survival tasks that are so near and dear to our hearts. We used our knives in temps down below freezing with no problems whatsoever; and these knives are used and abused by students year after year after year...

The Bushman is the knife that I cut my "survival teeth" on (fortunately, I didn't cut other parts of me on it :p ). With it, I learned what I do and don't need and like in a survival blade. The Bushman is not my "ideal" knife, but it is a knife that I am confident in :thumbup:

On another note: head, hands, and feet - keep 'em warm, dry, and protected :)
 
I just had a thought (sometimes that is hard to admit lol)...I don't own a bushman, until about a week from now lol (you guys have convinced me to order a couple). I wonder if a vic hiker would fit into the handle cavity? Normark, nice sheath...I especially like the magfire loop. Incidently does anybody know what happened to www.magfireusa.com ? I sure as hell hope he isn't out of business although expedition products sells an absolutely huge fire steel.
 
Dr. mudd, if they made a 12 inch machete bushman I would buy several.
I have extended the handle with a stick, and fine tuning the length can give you a handy makeshift machete, but the extra cutting edge would be a major bonus.
 
Liam Ryan said:
Dr. mudd, if they made a 12 inch machete bushman I would buy several.
I have extended the handle with a stick, and fine tuning the length can give you a handy makeshift machete, but the extra cutting edge would be a major bonus.
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Liam smart idea...I like your mods on the bushman.
With a small baton shoved into the handle you can build faster blade speed for whacking brush, nice.

OK guys, I'll be "in" soon, how can I turn down a try at a $20 knife?
Cuts into my lunch money, but only a little, I'll just have PBJ sammiches for a few days. :D

QUESTION: It is a tapered socket for handle? Like a shovel or spade socket?

If so, a broken off shovel handle might have some real uses in conjunction with the BushMan.
 
Skunk, the handle does taper toward the blade.

Liam, I really like your finger choil mod. I think I'll try that.

Eric, thank you for the complient! I still have a lot to learn about working with Kydex. I've always admired your work.
 
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