An essential blade to have when hunting, the best Bowie knives have a variety of uses and are the go to for dressing and skinning game, but can also be used to chop, scrap and stab. Before the style of the blade was made famous by frontiersman and Alamo legend, Colonel James Bowie (who was known for is knife fighting skills) it was originally designed in the early 1800’s as something a butcher would take into combat (think Daniel Day-Lewis in “Gangs of New York”) and to chop down cattle or very large animals.
