I’m sure there was a group of people out there who thought a sub 10 inch Bowie knife
was a little too tame for every day carry.
I mean Cold Steel wouldn’t have created the Natchez Bowie if people weren’t asking
for a bigger goddamn knife right?
Now of course the reality is the Natchez isn’t the biggest Bowie available because America
and maybe murderous rebel armies in the developing world need something to pillage with, maybe
not at a $200 MSRP…
But to help us decide if the Natchez bowie is too large or too small let’s look at
the dimensions like the overall length and weight.
Weight with and without the sheath of course.
Blade size and cutting edge.Instagrammer Headin sent me this.
Handle size and grip area.
It’s on loan though.
Spine thickness and handle thickness.
I’ve had it for two months now.
And various tallnesses of some of this other shit.
I hope he ain’t mad.
He was the same dude who donated the Hold Out to the channel.
I’ll link it at the end.
The Natchez bowie features a slightly less than 12 inches of silvery beautiful death,
to help you celebrate the freedoms that afford you the ability to own a knife that’s probably
too big to practically clean a large game animal or too small and heavy to be an effective
machete.
Congratulations!
However it seems like it could be effective facing off against a large predator hunting
you, provided of course you have the strength of a bear and/or the speed of a large cat,
and have also been watching Youtube knife fighting tutorials.
The satin finished pointy as shit clip point blade, should be great at piercing and stabbing.
Also you can slice rope to it in slow mo.
It’s made from a flat ground satin finished O1 carbon steel even though it used to be
Sk5 which was 1095 ish…
Remember kids carbon steel rusts if you treat it bad, so always wipe down and dry your blade
after every safari.
The handle.
The handle is built like a swords handle.
You have a solid brass quillion that’s really styled after a swords cross guard, so call
it whatever makes you feel manlier.
It’s great for a lot of situations, especially the overly common one where you’re fighting
another dude one on one with a large Bowie knife… that cross guard will save your life
bro.
The pommel in the rear is made of solid brass too, for knocking out an opponent instead
of killing them, because you’re honorable- but also makes a great glass breaker for your
car window if you need to escape your overturned car and also happen to be strapped with your
12 inch side piece.
What a life saver.
The handle is made out of shiny solid wood I’m pretty sure- although I hear it’s
been upgraded to polished micarta.
It’s pretty comfortable and made for large hands believe me, I have no problem there.
The sheath.
If you were to guess the sheath is made out of the same materials as say a Childs pair
of shoes you’d be right, plastic, nylon and velcro.
For something that could easily take down a bull, why not kill the bull with the bowie
and make a leather sheath with it’s hide.
It’s that simple.
It ain’t terrible, but it’s ok… it does have snap up top to keep the knife in place…
it’s not a super easy draw either… the blade tends to get down in it… and doing
the thumb push thingy you do with plastic sheaths helps only so much.
On the tactical scale between Mr. Rogers and Dog the Bounty Hunter… it’s like a current
day Segal.
Comparison time.
First is the Natchez, I keep wanting to call it the Nacho bowie, but it isn’t made of
chips.
It’s big and heavy and pokey and sharp.
I guess you could use it as a chopper?
It’s very blade heavy, and it’s not full tang.
It doesn’t say it anywhere it’s not but someone on an Amazon review said it’s not
fully tang and I believe everything there.
I know some Bowies aren’t so maybe this one aren’t too.
Next my Junglas II.
While it looks smaller and punier it’s still pretty choppy.
Fun fact, if you remember my review of this you’ll remember I broke my first one…
well on See’s Instagram they had a picture of their warranty display of broken knives
and I’m pretty fucking sure I saw mine dead in the center.
Go check it out.
Looks like it’s broken in the same place.
Also if you think the f word in a cold steel review isn’t appropriate.
Get out.
The Jungles II has a comfortable handle with no brass anywhere almost like it doesn’t
have anything to prove.
How about my Ontario Machete, I bought this a while ago but haven’t reviewed it yet.
I haven’t used it much and it’s mostly here for a size comparison.
Now the Bud K kukri this has been my go to chopper for years and I only paid 20 for it.
It wasn’t sharp but I sharpened it, and it’s beat up.
Its also a carbon steel and there’s no rust because I generally wipe it down after use.
Ok one more… how about the evil looking Moschus tanto… made in Pakistan… and you’re
like Pakistan they make tacky stuff.. and I would counter with have you seen the tacky
shit American custom knife makers sell people for hundreds and thousands of dollars?
YEAH WELL THATS DIFFERENT.
Ok… so Headin was like treat it like your own.
So I’m inclined to oblige him.
Let’s kick in some Tchaikovsky, and let me Lynn Thompson
show… by that I mean my jiggling gut that you see from time to time peaking from under
my finest beaded guy who likes microbrews flannel. "Waltz of the Flowers" by Tchaikovsky PLAYS FOR SEVERAL MINUTES
"Waltz of the Flowers" by Tchaikovsky PLAYS FOR SEVERAL MINUTES Now like a lot of Cold Steel knives…
I just don’t get it.
I like it but I don’t get it.
I often wonder what kind of real world scenario one of their blades would be useful in.
A TACTICAL ONE.
Oh yeah.
Now I’ve never gotten into a knife fight, which I know is a surprise… so it’s hard
for me to say if a 1 and a half pend knife or a large machete or a small pointy blade
like the Benchmade Fact or a 5 inch folding knife is the best in a fight.
But what I’ll let you do is scour Youtube and report back to me your research.
Also if the video doesn’t have a shitty metal backing track that’s too loud it doesn’t
count.
Again thanks to Subscriber Headin for indulging my Fantasy, without having to pay $160 or
whatever Amazon or Knife Center or a pawn shop charges for this thing.
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