Have you seen how big a bowie knife is? It's like a knife and a machete had a baby!
Bowie knife
A Bowie knife ( ) is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created by James Black in the early 19th century for Jim Bowie, who had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel known as the Sandbar Fight.
Since the first incarnation, the Bowie knife has come to incorporate several recognizable and characteristic design features, although in common usage the term refers to any large sheath knife with a crossguard and a clip point. The knife pattern is still popular with collectors; in
plain appeal of them) is that it's better to have a knife that's not ideal than to not have your ideal combat knife because it was too large to carry with you. While a 10 inch fixed-blade Bowie knife might be far more ideal for combat, it isn't practical - or legal - for many people to carry one around with them on their belt all the time, and few people leave the house expecting or planning to get into a knife fight that day.
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