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Good thread Hawk. Keep it up.

Yep, and a six inch blade.

Awesome

Here’s Randall’s Bear Bowie:

Some of you guys must have your retirement savings tied up in Randalls, LOL. A bunch of awesome Bowies.

Lately I've had a tactical knife obsession. Left to right. Spartan Blades Harsey Definsa, Medford Marine Corp Fighter (Kay Bar on steriods), Medford Marine Corp Raider...



Oh! And a Kay Bar State And Union reproduction of the prized Dog's Head Red Spacer Kay Bar.



Dog wearing an eye patch in front of cross bones. Sorta looks likes my Lab Koa boy.

Looking for a Chris Reeve 5.5 inch serrated Green Beret.

Didn’t read this entire thread and some one may have already brought it up, but there’s an excellent book on the weapons of World War II, my grandson has mine now so I can’t reference it, however it has an entire section on knifes and edged weapons issued during the war, really interesting reading. It’s a great reference book for all kinds of military equipment , in addition to just weapons. Hope I get it back someday.

Lots of really nice knives on this thread.

My only Bowie knife is a made in Japan Cold Steel Trail Master. I remember first seeing them about 35 years ago. I couldn’t afford one on paper route money. It was also offered with stag horn or maybe it was bone scales. This was my uncles that I inherited years later.

Lynn Thompson had his detractors but I’ve always liked Cold Steel. Especially the older mostly made in the US or Japan products. His catalogs were cool stuff when I was a kid. The knives were a great combination of useful designs, quality and value with some good old fashion salesmanship and selling the sizzle with the steak. Similar to Mike Dillion in that sense of offering a quality product, knowing his customer base and how to promote the product and make it fun.

Now that is a beautiful knife. And sheath.

Nice knives everyone.

The term "Bowie knife" has been misconstrued to mean any large sheath knife with a clip point blade and a double hilt.

This would be considered a Bowie knife,although that term in not included in its name.It's a Randall Buxton Fighter but you can't buy this knife from the Randall shop.

I have this old small Case Tested bowie from the 20's or 30's. Red bone handles, Model 651-5. The double guard is a little loose I can live with it.

That Buxton fighter just gave me a chub

I am not a knnife expert by any means but from looking at numerous civil war era photos it seems that most of the people diplaying knives the pattern most often diplayed is very similar to the one currently made by Cold Steel.

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Being that the civil war was a lot closer time wise to the Jim Bowie era I would expect that those with longer and heavier bladeswould be more representative of a Bowie knife. Also in an age of mostly single shot firearms I can see the case for a "short sword" as a back-up weapon, so to me the larger blade sizes make a lot of sense as such..

There is no doubt that a lot of blacksmith knife makers and commercial knife makers called their knives a Bowie knife - there are an almost limitless number of knives called Bowie knives.

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I have one of those, too, except mine was made in Taiwan, blade from 01 tool steel, and has a solid brass cross guard.

This one is in the general style of the American Civil War era Bowie knives. Razor sharp, too.

And probably a lot closer to the Original Bowie than most designs.

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That was probably the first Bowie Knife I bought as a kiddo.
Saved up my money and ride my bike to the local Gibson’s Discount Center. Surprised they let me buy it. 🤠

I remember drooling at the big Kabar and Case Knife Displays in the big glass and wooden cases. 😬

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