From: deowll@gmail.com   
      
   "Good Soldier Schweik"  wrote in message   
   news:8ocnd5h41of5qkg9tg8jv5co84tikun41l@4ax.com...   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   I've seen pictures of a sax from 900 AD that many would call a bowie. The   
   basic design seems to be rather old and seems to stray rather far from what   
   James Bowie described.   
      
   > 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...   
      
   Actually "the bowie" was made for James, the older brother as a hunting   
   knife and he had his younger brother carry it because Jim was having problem   
   getting along with others. The blade was normally described as a large   
   butcher knife. James said it had a blade 9 1/4 inches long with a straight   
   back.   
      
   The knife and a replacement seems to have seen a lot of use as a hunting   
   knife being used for whatever Jim needed done while doing whatever. I  would   
   assume they normally used an ax to chop firewood but with a knife this   
   size...Weell I suppose you could actually be rather flexible with it.   
      
      
   >   
   >> 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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