A.G. Russell Knives

For the Cowboy Action Shooter

Cowboy Action Shooting is about romance, not reality. When I was a boy many of the real people these enactors are portraying were still alive and my father introduced me to some of them. A Texas Ranger with two big Bisley Colts kept my eyes bugged and my mouth shut while he and my father talked. It is easy to forget that 100 years ago men dressed in the shield front shirt and stripped pants would go for months between baths while working in heat and dust moving cattle from home range to market. While their clothes may have been neglected, their gear never. Rifle, pistols, and knives were kept as well as they were able.

Everyone knows what guns they carried, but few know about the knives. The most likely knife for a horseman to have carried was one with a blade no longer than 5 to 6 inches. In those days it was in all likelihood something with a "Bowie" shape. Enter the "Hunter's Bowie" a knife made by all cutlers of the day. This "small" bowie was useful in every way needed in that day; slicing bacon, opening cans of peaches, or cutting a tangled rope.

This modern Hunter's Bowie is based on such a knife. The 5-5/8" blade is 1095, a high carbon steel (not stainless) much as would have been used in the late 1800s. At 59-61 Rc., it will perform as well or better than the knives of that period. The handle material is stag and the guard is nickel silver. Measures 9-5/8" overall and weighs 6.2 oz. Leather sheath. Made in the U. S. A. Suggested retail $215.00

Custom Shoppe - Hunters Bowie - Stag Handle