What purpose does a full size bowie knife fill?
It seems like more of a novelty than anything.
Bowie Knives
Tyler Sullivan
Jonathan Young
Because a "full size" Bowie is a novelty.
Bowies were originally not much bigger than a normal fighting knife.
>T. "Living History" Mountainman
Jace Thompson
For when you need the big stabby
Henry Sanders
I like their blade shape most, though that kind of varies
For now I take my ka-bar big foot hunting
Any decent brands for around $200 that look kind of classic and not some kind of tactical shit? I see a bunch of nice looking custom ones but I don't want to blow 500 burgerbux
Lucas Hughes
>doesn’t want his stabba to be a choppa
Great git! Yous muckin’ about!
Brody Peterson
? The Sheffield bodies were 9"(k barish)
tshaonline.org
The first part of sounding smart is knowing something of what you are talking about. Don't be a sophist.
There are boomers who say the bowie is a camp knife. It is not
The original bowie was supposed to be an seax knife but also a fighter and a chopper.
The article above mentions that a bowie can chop a small tree, stab, slice and break down ceilings and walls for fighting mexicans
Kevin Sanders
Sorry meant to say the Sheffield were 9" shirt British bodies but the originals were 13" butcher knifes
Dylan Moore
>hatchet
>fuck huge dagger
>clip point and guard for fighting
Literally couldn't want anything more.
Oliver Watson
Fucking ideal for holding onions over a campfire and the occasional gook stabbing. Other then that cant really think of anything, drop point is the ultimate blade.
Kayden Flores
In theory it could be used for chopping, in reality I never see anyone do that.
Something I've learned over the years, slowly and on many camping adventures, its better to use the right tool for the job rather than trying to find a Jack of All Trades item.
If you want woodcraft, bring a cheap hatchet. If you want bushcraft, bring a cheap machete, if you want campcraft, get a decent but basic knife. Nothing too fancy, but solid.
For stabbing murders, a skinny commando knife is actually ideal. And of course you should never need that unless you're Dexter Morgan.
Julian Richardson
>1862
Smithsonian Bowie would like to differ with you.
Nathaniel Watson
Sorry did not see your sarcasm.
Smithsonian Bowie would like to differ with them.
Dominic Sullivan
You could tape it to a gun for a bootleg bayonet
Jeremiah Richardson
OI OI OI
U GOT A LOICENSE FOR DAT CHOPPA?!
Charles Harris
You might take a look at the "Drop forged" models made by Cold Steel, where blade and handle are forged from one piece of steel and the knives have neither rivets nor scales.
Gavin Murphy
It's too wide to fit in between ribs.
Eli Sullivan
For that matter its so wide it wont sink easily into a soft fleshy part of the body. I guess it wouldnt be so bad for field dressing. I dunno. I've always used a small curved blade for that, even on something larger like a moose.
Matthew Cruz
>For that matter its so wide it wont sink easily into a soft fleshy part of the body.
You don't want the least resistance when you're violently stabbing, you want the biggest wounds to bleed the most.
Joshua Miller
Then you should coat your blade in poison before you stab things with it. I'm pretty sure there's no law against using a poison blade for self defense.
Adrian Nelson
Angel Johnson
>For stabbing murders, a skinny commando knife is actually ideal.
If you can carry both this and decent basic knife - sure. But if you can't you'd better have something like this. It's long enough for deep wounds, looks innocent, practical in daily life and more concealable than anything with a handguard
Juan Martinez
>buying shit from blacked countries
>no handguard and no pinky swell
Kneck thigh self
John Cruz
>blacked countries
Wat?
>no handguard
You don't neet a handguard if you know how to hold the knife properly. Handguard may catch a piece of your clothes and you won't be fast enough to take the knife out on time.
Also, you can traumatise your hand with a handguard itself pretty easily.
Benjamin Torres
It's the original mall ninja knife from however long ago.
Brayden Peterson
I agree with Horace Kephart
outdoorselfreliance.com
Then again, I carry a gun for "fighting".
Camden Lee
Yall faggoty shitposters ever go alligator catching and have to sever its spinal cord at the neck?
Caleb Roberts
>I'm pretty sure there's no law against using a poison blade for self defense.
idiot
Owen Hernandez
Ignore him we've come to the age where some weirdos have to insert their cuckold fetish into everything describable
Mason Jenkins
Actual fighter for killing peepl.
>5 inches
Charles Morales
Turn sideways
Isaac Smith
Keeping those damn Yankees outta Dixie. Also killing bars when you are only three.
Adrian Sanchez
>5 inches
Nice length, but design is not inspiring.
Ryder Barnes
> design is not inspiring, as well as picrelated design
Forgot to add.
Dylan Roberts
>What purpose does a full size bowie knife fill?
The same purpose that any large knife fills. It's a tool that you can carry more easily than a sword for cutting, slashing, and stabbing stuff.
Grayson Ward
>Posting worst Kizlyar
Pleb, utter pleb
Zachary Ramirez
>me saying that Kizlyar design is bad
>still calls me a pleb
Fuck you, m8
Jaxson Morales
>redit spacing
Brayden Thomas
You're thinking of Sheffield bowies and their copies that became popular starting in the 1840's. Those Confederate bowies with ~1ft long blades are closer to the original
Zachary Ortiz
Bowie knives were originally conceived as a sort of knife for fighting similar to a short sword
Full size added reach and weight
It's basically a diet dueling sword with more uses beyond that
Ryan Torres
>Bowie knives were originally conceived as a sort of knife for fighting similar to a short sword
So, a similar concept to belduque or facon
Carson Williams
Yes, exactly
If I recall correctly, the particular shape of the blade and the clip point at the end allowed for proficiency for those who knew European saber fencing techniques
Isaiah Carter
>Is there a case against virginity?
Jackson Ward
I really like the Khukuri House Scourge. It's a hybrid of a bowie and a khukuri. But I've heard they are hit and miss on quality.
Nathaniel Garcia
For skinning extra big niggers
Michael Baker
While practically it isn't that much better than a regular fighting knife, it does have a psychological edge. Imagine you were in a knife fight, with one guy having a normal length fighting knife, and you having this huge ass bowie. The guy with the smaller knife is gonna be scared shitless, while you'll feel strong enough to kill a damn grizzly!
Evan Ortiz
>That's not a knwoife...
Jaxon Allen
Seems useful for preparing a hard use camp and butchering large animals like bear, elk, cattle, etc. plus viral marketing after the sandbar duel
Jace Morris
I have one of those shitty MTech ones that don't hold an edge yet are indestructible. Haven't found a use for it, but it feels nice to carry on a belt innawoods
Carson Diaz
>It seems like more of a novelty
The obvious sign that your living in the wrong century
Sebastian Miller
Kephart is that ninja. Not nearly enough respect for him here or anywhere
Austin Rogers
>he actually unironically believes "reddit spacing" is a real thing
Fuck off newfag
Sebastian Baker
Down Under make some good knives.
Angel Harris
>serrations
Anthony King
This is a knife for fucking fightin’ men to their deaths with. It was literally designed for this sole purpose.
Adam Phillips
You use blinding powder and caltrops for self-defense numbnuts. Not everyone walks around with vanishing bombs and has time to grapple up to the nearest tree and watch their victims choke on poison after you crit backstab them.
Jaxon King
Nah but really, this is the correct answer.
The Bowie knife was intended as a last-ditch backup weapon in case an angel pisses in the lock of your Kentucky rifle. Which was a distinct possibility in the days of flintlock weapons.
You wanted a fuckoff-huge knife with a sharp, clipped point that would induce the absolute maximum amount of gross trauma in the minimum possible time. We're not silently removing sentries with a well-place thrust here, we're gouging a gaping, gushing bloody hole in a body and ideally exteriorizing whole organs.
It wasn't about knife dueling (although no doubt some accomplished duelists used 'em), it was about stopping and dropping a violent threat, whether a human enemy or a dangerous animal.
Lucas Long
None of theese knives are Ængular enough.
Nicholas Bailey
>studs on the handle
That probably hurts like a bitch if your hand slides
Nathan Gomez
These dudes rowed boats across the ocean. I doubt their hands would feel a damn thing. Your bitch skin on the other hand...
Jason Brooks
>Angle get out reee
You should have stayed in saxony. Charlemange could have civilized you all at once that way.
Anthony Mitchell
Cutthroat
Bentley Anderson
Well yeah and you'd be hard pressed to convince me that a bowie is any better for fighting than this.
Grayson Martin
Proper technique for cutting someones throat is to jam the knife in the side of their neck of their neck, preferably from behind, and punch it forward. In this manner you sever the arteries and rip out the trachea etc...
You don't slide it across the outside front of their neck like in the movies.
Cooper Hill
>You don't slide it across the outside front of their neck
But I've seen countless execution videos that demonstrate precisely that particular method. If the blade is sharp, it can take the whole head off in a matter of seconds.
Carson Stewart
>execution
>stealth assassination
Pick one.
Cooper Hall
No false back edge means it's harder to stab for no benefit. You're not doing the batonny chop chop, you don't need a thicc spine.
Michael Turner
>For stabbing murders, a skinny commando knife is actually ideal.
That must be why the design was constantly modified and why the guys that used them moved away from them
Kayden Sanders
>Proper technique for cutting someones throat
Your post didn't make it clear at first. Thanks for clarifying.
Jayden Wilson
Camden Sanders
Cheap stainless steel repro
Joseph Bennett
Why do people think they can charge $150+ for a seax
Camden Martinez
Wasn't Jim Bowie's preferred Bowie knife fighting style "gut the person with this fuckhuge knife".
Carson Martinez
Plus it goes against the ancient rule of "never cut toward yourself"
By harder, you mean barely noticeable right. It just drives the edge down, which just puts more pressure on the cutting edge which then cuts more. I use knives every day to process animals and I've never thought "boy if only this knife had a false edge" and I'm not even using a lot of pressure
Brody Moore
That's pretty much everyone's style unless you have a literal sword. You either open them up or E.Honda that shit. There were fighting knives made specifically with the cutting edge on top for maximum upward stabbage though
Nolan Cruz
Medieval stilettos were unironically better at that job. They were basically ice picks that could penetrate layers of clothing and some armor and leave a triangular puncture that's not going to be sutured easily. A favorite of assassins, cut throats, mercenaries, and tavern whores.
Brayden Hall
>never cut toward yourself
Good point.
Alexander Campbell
>triangular puncture that's not going to be sutured easily
You were doing good until they point. Its right up there with cuts from serrated edges being worse to repair/heal, but neither is true.
Tyler James
Fighting bears and injuns
Brayden Torres
Got this on clearance the other day. My first knife but it looks cool to me. Worth sharpening?
Asher Jones
Well, I apologize if I was wrong. I just know stilettos were effective enough that many people carried them as a hidden sidearm in cities.
Jace Anderson
Yuuuuup.
"Timetable of Death"?
"Defanging the Snake"?
Fuck all that, just dump their organs on the floor.
Michael Cox
>worth sharpening?
Lemme ask you a bigger question
Why do you tolerate dull knives, regardless of their origin?
You could shave with any knife you find in my home, from the kitchen, the the garage, to the one in my pocket.
You question is like asking "Is regular air worth breathing?"
Lincoln Morris
That picture is funny, but if his toes slipped he would fuck himself up.
Levi Young
Das perdy
Nathaniel Baker
it's like a fudd saying his thirty durr rifle is every bit as good as an AR fir fightin with
at the end of the day they'll both kill just fine, just one is more optimal than the other for their intended purpose
Brandon Hall
That there is what comes of a serious masturbation problem
Jacob Martinez
I get a little turn on by the thought of a cute little tavern whore threatening me with one of those after I grab her ass
Luis Nelson
It's less hot if she walks up behind you and punctures your lung with it
Nathan Sanders
>break down ceilings and walls for fighting mexicans
Is this a necessity when fighting Mexicans? What, exactly is the purpose of that activity? Are you breaking open their hives and dragging them out into the sunlight? If they start swarming, you’re going to get a good kicking.
John Clark
I've had a knife thrown at me, been stabbed with a letter opener and had my clothes cut off by various girlfriends.
I can only recommend one
Juan Stewart
>tavern whores.
In fantasy novels.
You can't slice anyone with a stiletto, only go stabbity-stabbity.
While IRL woman's knife is always a cutting/slicing tool. Like those salvavirgo navajas.
Josiah Nelson
What purpose does a mexican sacatripe fill?
Elijah Morgan
When the Mexicans have freshly sapped and minted silver from the Encomiendas, the only way to get to them is buy force.
The colony's santa anna will be central in their protection.
Nathaniel Ward
for gutting sheep
and other warm blooded mammals
Aiden Wood
The Condor Undertaker seems nice although I am not a birger so no idea if this is considered a classic bowie or not.
Daniel Adams
Ryan Brown
>I fought the monster dragons of Komodo
Based
Caleb Hill
If I had to face an enemy, the hill jack with his hunting rifle is a hell of a lot more terrifying than some guy with $10,000 worth of tactical shit.
Adrian Cook
>Plus it goes against the ancient rule of "never cut toward yourself"
I've no clue what you're trying to say. Correct technique is to stand behind the person, jab your knife into the side of their neck, hopefully full width and then punch forward to cut/rip out their throat.
If you're in a knife fight or their sleeping, I supposed you might use a different method.
Jonathan Hernandez
Hey since this is the thread to ask, are Milano stiletto knifes effective for stabbing? I always wanted one as a kid and wondered if there actually effective as a killing tool in any way.