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Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 14:00:45 No.1877970 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1877977 >>1877988 >>1878007 >>1878112 >>1878379 >>1878664 >>1878724 >>1878769 >>1880979

Why were old American knives like the Hudson bay, Green River, Bowie, or Sheffield all huge as fuck, but more modern hunting knifes are very small like 3 or 4 inches long?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 14:11:32 No.1877977 Report

Quoted By: >>1878008

>>1877970
self defense and usability in battle vs. skinning game that has been 360 quickscoped

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbar_Fight

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Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 14:18:21 No.1877988 Report

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>>1877970
In most cases you wont need a knife larger than five inches, it's not practical in any way. The knife game has vastly improved since the 1900's and even the military has set regulations on them since they don't really go around stabbing the enemy in close trench or tunnel warfare any longer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 15:07:38 No.1878007 Report

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>>1877970
they were made for chopping and slicing meat and fighting other meatbags, often just modified butcher or chef knives
these were primitive times where people had not yet learned of the advanced technological miracles of batonny or only carrying one knife/tool at all times

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 15:07:53 No.1878008 Report

Quoted By: >>1878009 >>1878702

>>1877977
fun read but I can't help but think that the Bowie injuries had to be overblown. It seems like it was written by a middle schooler

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 15:12:15 No.1878009 Report

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>>1878008
well seek other sources. he was also previously shot by one of the attendees of the sandbar fight, and after being shot by some manlet he was restrained by onlookers to prevent him from butchering the shooter.

yes, most legendary figures are overblown, including Bowie, but he has a multitude of stories that make for good reading.

Also, Bowie wasn't even part of the duel, he just was there and got embroiled in the hub-bub (as he was wont to do)

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 17:36:44 No.1878112 Report

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>>1877970
They were sidearms.

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Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 19:05:19 No.1878189 Report

Quoted By: >>1878343

They really aren't

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 21:49:07 No.1878343 Report

Quoted By: >>1878358 >>1878846

>>1878189
How big actually is that? We don't really have anything for a size comparison.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 22:10:56 No.1878358 Report

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>>1878343
Generally a traditional 3 pin haft will be in 1 and a quarter inch separation to match an average hand. Makes that knife maybe 6 inches total?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 11 Sep 2020 22:29:57 No.1878379 Report

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>>1877970
>Why were old American knives
>Sheffield
Anon ...

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Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2020 04:13:38 No.1878664 Report

Quoted By: >>1878671 >>1878846 >>1880804

>>1877970
Those knives were made for special purposes, they were the exception. The hudson bay knife in your pic was made to chop buffalo bones for example.
Pic related are the kind of knives settlers mainly used.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2020 04:24:40 No.1878671 Report

Quoted By: >>1878721 >>1880265

>>1878664
Imagine chopping bones with a knife

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2020 05:33:05 No.1878702 Report

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>>1878008

The injuries sound fine to me. And the multiple missed shots do too.

The large broad Bowie knives make wide wounds and can also slash well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2020 05:51:05 No.1878721 Report

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>>1878671

Sure? They made cleavers for that purpose, which are just very broad knives.

Sometimes a knife that can do most things good enough, is useful. Which is where stuff like Bowie and modern utility/combat knives came in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2020 06:03:00 No.1878724 Report

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>>1877970
because americans have small peepee

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2020 07:31:24 No.1878769 Report

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>>1877970
Sheffield is the city in which it was made, not the manufacturer. It had hundreds of foundries and knife/scissor makers living and working there.
There are still a few traditional knife makers there, but not many.

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Anonymous Sat 12 Sep 2020 11:57:41 No.1878846 Report

Quoted By: >>1880675 >>1881680

>>1878343
Guy who replied to you is right on the money
>>1878664
seriously, the big fuckin knives were made for processing megafauna.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Sep 2020 23:28:38 No.1880265 Report

Quoted By: >>1880676 >>1880726 >>1880760

>>1878671
Bone marrow is highly nutritious, it was common to break or chop bones in half and throw them into vegetable soups.
Buffalo bones are thick as hell.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 08:03:21 No.1880675 Report

Quoted By: >>1880765

>>1878846
sweet looking kit dude, warm colours with the blanket in the background tying it all together
mirin, would frame on a wall

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 08:04:24 No.1880676 Report

Quoted By: >>1880687 >>1880724 >>1881034

>>1880265
Can you just toss any fresh bone from carcass into a soup?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 08:26:53 No.1880687 Report

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>>1880676
I don't know, my grandma used thigh bones of farm animals mostly. I'd ask a cook, butcher or hunter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 10:00:39 No.1880724 Report

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>>1880676
Yes, you can. The broth won´t enrich with the marrow, but will soften and the marro cooked inside, so you´ll have an easier time to break it and eat the goods after that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 10:09:18 No.1880726 Report

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>>1880265
I love bone marrow. I get free bones all the time and eat it on it's own sometimes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 10:58:15 No.1880760 Report

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>>1880265
Homade oxtail soup with marrow - nom.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 11:04:49 No.1880765 Report

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>>1880675
et in Arcadia ego, fren

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Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 12:43:26 No.1880804 Report

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>>1878664
One of those looks familiar, like great granny's knife.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 16:47:07 No.1880973 Report

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I've got a great big 3/16" thick saw blade I've been cutting blades out of. I think I'll do something like this next. I love these classic patterns.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 16:50:41 No.1880979 Report

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>>1877970
Jack of all trades.
Fighting
Wood processing
Butchering
Looking cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 17:51:29 No.1881034 Report

Quoted By: >>1881087

>>1880676
You generally don't want marrow bones for soup. Marrow is mostly fat, and will turn your soup into an oil slick. Joint bones are best for soups because you want the connective tissues attached to them to develop the body of the soup. Dry, indirect heat cooking methods are best for marrow bones, like roasting, baking, low temp grilling.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 18:38:53 No.1881087 Report

Quoted By: >>1881106

>>1881034
>You generally don't want marrow bones for soup.
Depending where you live, you want that. Eskimos especially did that

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 14 Sep 2020 19:10:00 No.1881106 Report

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>>1881087
Yeah they live in the worst climate in the world I wouldn't trust their judgement

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 15 Sep 2020 09:19:24 No.1881680 Report

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>>1878846
Feckin' love McCarthy.

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