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What is the modern equivilent of the bowie in terms of hype marketing and myth vs reality?
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What is the modern equivilent of the bowie in terms of hype marketing and myth vs reality?
What is the modern equivilent of the bowie in terms of hype marketing and myth vs reality?
What is the modern equivilent of the bowie in terms of hype marketing and myth vs reality?
Really there's nothing wrong with any of it, how many people wear Nikes to be like Mike? (Does anybody want to be like Mike anymore?)
If you want to see the pattern come back, get companies into it. :cough:Cold Steel:cough:.
for all the older ones on this forum cold steel made some frontier type knives with carbon v steel in california one was a hudson bay one was a red river they had leather pouch sheaths had one should have kept it. havent we all done that with a knife we owned lol
You could argue fairly that Bowie used a Rezin at the Sandbar fight. Supposedly the knife he carried at Sandbar was designed by his brother. Then, later he carried a Bowie after he had James Black make a knife to his design in 1830. Bowie added the clip point to the original Rezin design.
I would have to disagree with you. A well-made camp/chopper is very useful. For my uses, its safer and more versatile than an axe outside of winter. Besides, people naturally gravitate towards big knives.In the modern world, carrying around a big honkin knife in the woods are at "camp" is a PITA, that's why Hudson Bay knives are not popular anymore. I carried a big bowie when camping as a boy and it was not practical.
That's exactly what I think, looking at popular Randall and Becker models the HB pattern just got streamlined, it's evolution morphed it's original form out of use. Hey it happens. I drive a 4 door family car right now that would spank the hell out of an 80s corvette both straight line and in handling. It's the nature of technology and building better mousetraps!for myth and hype I'd have said american style tanto a few years ago, now it would be anything with multiple aggressively different edge geometries.
At the end of the day you could do the same back and forth with any two roughly analogous styles. the fact that a bowie has some "styling" to it makes it stand out, where as the utilitarianism of the HB makes it very indistinct. The large old hickory butcher knives are pretty much that style, but are not sold as such. Arguably an ESEE-6 or Junglas is closer to being an HB than a bowie, but are not marketed at all that way. Add the fact that outside the US Bowie often just means big.
useful or not, people gravitate to tools that work for them, and when you are processing a large animal like a bison, it makes sense to have such a large knife. I suspect that due to the more industrial nature of bison hunting that may be why the big HB found some success. where the beaver trapping being a far more individualized "cottage" industry, save for hide processing and transport, In those cases, I'd guess smaller knives would have been the more common tool, and that individualism would have watered down any distinction in style, although I do know that there some specific small game skinners that do go back some, I don't know how far back, and to what degree they were used.