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   On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:36:49 -0500, "deowll"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"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.   
      
   I have read that there is some evidence, I believe a letter written by   
   a granddaughter, who states that she was present when her grand dad   
   Rezin P. Bowie instructed a hired (White Man) blacksmith to make the   
   knife. Several sites seem to credit this origin.   
      
   She also wrote that knife was just a hunting knife...   
      
   >   
   >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)   
   cheers,   
      
   Schweik   
   (goodsoldierschweikatgmaildotcom)   
      
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