From: deowll@gmail.com   
      
   "Good Soldier Schweik"  wrote in message   
   news:fistd55rvkh9eb6r4cdffnivaeop3fth4l@4ax.com...   
   > 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...   
   >   
      
   Excuse me my brain is slipping. Rezin it is. The design of bowie knives   
   changed through time. Rezin as a old man that the newer blades were a big   
   improvement on his original design.   
      
   Not sure what he meant by that. I've looked at pictures of what some people   
   think the original design would have looked like and I prefer it. Oh well.   
      
      
   >>   
   >>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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