are you talking about what yilon said?
"All right people now for the answer to the world's most effective fighting knife.
A man named James Bowie (pronouced Boo-ie, although many pronounce the first syllable as if it named a device for shooting arrows.) went to a blacksmith (many say James Black) and asked for a fighting knife. The knife maker designed what became known as the Bowie knife.
The Bowie was a huge knife with a drop point. The lower edge of the knife was all sharp and the upper edge of the drop point only was sharp. The remaining upper edge of the knife had a brass insert to catch and very briefly hold an opponent's blade.
Bowie put more people in the morgue than yellow fever. Bowie lived in the brawling times of the American frontier. Most men on the frontier at that time carried an 'Arkansas toothpick.' The Arkansas toothpick was a long (often a foot), thin double edged blade. The Bowie (at least in the hand of James Bowie) proved far superior to the Arkansas toothpick and soon everyone wanted a Bowie.
As you might imagine, everyone got what they thought was a Bowie. However, the VAST majority of the wannabe 'Bowies' did not have the secret feature of the real Bowie. The better wannabes were a surprisingly well balanced knife, despite the large size. A man who knew how to use a Bowie could move it nearly as quickly as a smaller, lighter knife. The Bowie, of course, had much greater reach. Even the wannabes were very effective fighting knives. The real Bowie still had one hidden feature.
Colonel James Bowie, as almost every American knows, died in the defense of the Alamo. What happened to the first Bowie knife no one knows. There are several large Bowie knives in private collections that claim to be the original knife. Of course, they will not let anyone verify the secret feature.
I still ask my original question. Does anyone know of a real Bowie knife? TIA."
^^^this sounds like a lot of biased hearsay & far-fetched pseudohistory racked with assumptions & generalities, but at least he wrote it in an entertaining fashion.
i didn't read on about throwing knives..
what i can conclude about folks' 2-cents within threads is that most of it's opinion, and a lot of it is one-upmanship for one-upmanship's sake.. sorta like a contest of who's the slickest authority, researched facts be damned. take everything with a grain of salt, and do most of the investigation yourself. there's a few folks on here who really are true authorities, but most authorities have a specialized & narrow range of knowledge. the responsible ones stay within that range, and specify when they're stating their opinion vs. actual fact.
Who's monitoring those posts? 
Makes being here so much nicer!
