From: decypher.signature@sig.line   
      
   On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:52:05 +0000 (UTC), wrat@panix.com (the wharf   
   rat) wrote:   
      
   >In article <7jvb1jF3761kfU1@mid.individual.net>,   
   >Del Cecchi  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>was.  They did have a really cute little bayonet for the M16 that we   
   >   
   >	Well if you havce a perfectly good rifle why are you bothering with   
   >that stupid Glock? :-)   
   >   
   >>So when you go camping you just take a big ass bowie?   
   >   
   >	Actually I use a stove for cooking and a tent for shelter.  I carry   
   >a small fixed blade knife, formerly a Gerver A400 that got lost then   
   >a Schrade now a Bark River TUSK.  I use an entrenching tool for the latrine.   
   >   
   >>An I consider the current fad for all these testosterone laden manly   
   >>fighting knives made out of half inch thick steel bars silly. But to   
   >   
   >	The Bowie isn't a current fad.  They've been around for hmmmm   
   >150 years?  It's a classic American design.   
   >   
   However.... From all I have read the alleged reason for making the   
   first Bowie knife was so that the guy who it was made for, Jim Bowie,   
   would have a better weapon when setting upon, or being set upon, by   
   various adversaries, whom it is rumored there were more then a few.   
      
   Not to chop firewood for a camp fire...   
      
   >	As far as thickness goes I really like a blade that's thick (more   
   >than 1/4") at the hilt but that has a lot of taper towards the point.  It   
   >seems to put heft where I want it and balance the knife perfectly.   
   >   
   cheers,   
      
   Schweik   
   (goodsoldierschweikatgmaildotcom)   
      
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