Bowie Knife vs Bowie Machete

[@Wideranger]

"The savage was the jerk not the race" best quote ever dbad 👊

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Gotta tell it like it was

[@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors]

That troodon is a beast son! And I'm going to have to get me one of those torches! I was damn sure about to ask too timely answer my friend

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Its the model A7 torch. I've used it every time I took the dogs out late. I see everything

[@carlrobinson8177]

I have both, and the both are great tools. I cut down small trees 10 to 12” circumference with the bowie, I use the machete for vines and making paths. The dbad Man is badass Hell Yeah thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I appreciate that

[@scottf.3808]

Nice head to head work out...Some good history as I appreciate the info....Good stuff....

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Thanks!

[@leofedorov1030]

I snagged CC Kukri Plus and Tanto machetes for $15.00 each. I am convinced that could be the best blade for the price deal in modern history, LOL. CC short machetes are absolute beasts and easily double as short swords, large knives, whatever. This Black Bear Bowie looks awesome.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I'm not calling you a liar there

[@davidhughett6081]

I own the Black Bear Bowie. You're right! It is awesome.

[@beckystiles1754]

Great comparison video Dbad very insightful. One of the many reasons I love you and your channel.. you always give an abundance of information and examples or ideas for different situations and different uses for blades. Awesome as always my friend 😊

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I appreciate that, you rock!

[@alcmantyrtaeus]

Choice of knife vs machete likely depends more on location and task. If I were in a more jungle environment, machete. Woodland environment, knife. I do remember the story of the pilot who went down in the Pacific (New Guinea I think) whose survival knife was a bowie.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Exactly. I touched on that in the vid. You got it 100%

[@alcmantyrtaeus]

@@DonnieBAllDay Injury Slight... Please Advise. Documentary 2008. Covers the pilot and his story. After his return to his unit, he was involved in the early Army Air Force (pre-separate services) survival training and manual creation.

[@charlesjonestherednecknerd]

Love the history you shared D-bad. Living in AR with the James Black and James bowie connections I LOVE their history and how they were used/carried from 1830 on. Add in the Arkansas toothpick and well you have the American quintessential fixed blade.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

100%!

[@Ve-suvius]

Stay strong Donnie. 👍 The nice thing of these machete Bowie's is that they will not break on you. They stab nicely also. Also true on the natives. There were the bad guys, but also friendly tribes helping out.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Absolutely!

[@rustyknifelover4463]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the differences between the machete and Budget Bowie. Today's carry Demko Knives AD20 MG in 3V, Sandrin Knives Torino in Tungsten Carbide and Victorinox Pioneer X.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Well I see you decided to carry some stuff to make others drool! haha

[@rustyknifelover4463]

@@DonnieBAllDay I carry what makes me happy and gets the job done.

[@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors]

Loving the cold steel black bear !! It's on the damn list son!!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

A worthy chete!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I didn't even put it together that the books author is thenuttyknifeguy

[@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors]

@@DonnieBAllDay lmao that's awesome! I wouldn't have either until he commented!!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

@@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors Now I feel bad for not saying it in the vid! haha

[@raychilensky3618]

Thank you D-bad! On behalf of my self and my alter ego TheNuttyKnifeGuy!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

You two are good people

[@ramonvelasquez8431]

As always very informative segment spiced with some awesomeness! Good vid there, man!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Gracias my brother

[@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors]

I never liked Bowie knives until I read about The Sandbar fight now I love them with all my heart. The first time he fought the sheriff and got shot all he had was a large folder but he couldn't get it deployed had he had Emerson wave technology the bowie may have never come into existence. His brother gave him the first one a little food for thought

[@DonnieBAllDay]

His brother was the better knife maker. He made the Musso we all know for Jim

[@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors]

@@DonnieBAllDay his brother was also known as bullet dodger Bowie because unlike his brother he never got shot

[@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors]

@@DonnieBAllDay and God Almighty before everybody starts quick typing I it's a damn joke

[@DonnieBAllDay]

@@choirboyzcutleryoutdoors Hahahahahahahahaha

[@zackstork4420]

At 12:58 min...great explanation of momentum (p) which is the blade mass (m) times the swing velocity (v). p=mv. Also, once the blade impacts the log and velocity goes to zero, you have transferred all swing kinetic energy (KE) to the wood. KE=[mvv]/2. Knife physics...awesome.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Absolutely, but in layman's terms! Haha

[@WEREWOLFUSMC]

"All i have with me is this WOWTAC Torch and my EDC knife". Yah, oh!....and two big badass blades from the bowels of Hades!!! 🔪🔪🤣

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Well.... And those. Haha

[@Captain-Electro]

"Mary had a little lamb for the 188th time"... can confirm 😞 I'm not much of a reader but my wife can read a book in a day. I will check it out.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

The author is thenuttyknifeguy and I completely missed that!

[@kongandbasses8732]

Its fine to carry " only a pocket lamp and a knife", while wielding a mighty although budget Bowie and a Bowie Machete. Btw, nothing wrong with 440c, if it has a good heat treat. And again you are right, a budget Bowie will do the job as good as an expensive one. The more expensive one will hold an edge longer, depending on the steel, and it may have a better sheet. My favorite Cold Steel knife, my old Trail Master in Carbon V, came with a nilon sheet. This sheet still is in verry good condition, after 35 years. I have some knives that allready needed the second leather sheet or the sheet needed to be fixed with glue, needle and heavy thread. Stay safe everybody, and stay blessed. Greetings from Germany!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I wish this thing was 440C! Haha! Plain 440 is definitely not that great

[@kongandbasses8732]

@@DonnieBAllDay Aaah, ok, my bad. I am an old fart and may have misheard this. You are right, 440 alone is not that great. But it works in big chunks of steel.

[@Jimmy-gd5ho]

Boom!! love these large knife review. Just picked up an esee 3 for backyard use and a bestech arctic for edc. Not large knives I know but whatever!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

No such thing as too much knife... No such thing as not enough

[@stefanklaus1652]

Im pretty glad that your gorgeous lady is a nurse cause in case you hurt yourself she is able to offer you medical care, nice comparison Brother, stay save brother ❤️

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Haha! She'll just shake her head and call me stupid.

[@RETOKSQUID]

​@@DonnieBAllDayLOL. I hear ya. My better half is a Nurse also. They could probably share war stories about us men folk.😂

[@JuaneDosesII-wj6dd]

Black bear Bowie best bang for buck

[@DonnieBAllDay]

great for the money

[@Katana-Karl]

Wow designed differently but still overall give the same results. Really like your vs. Vids

[@DonnieBAllDay]

You only liked it because I mentioned you by name. Haha

[@JoeSteel1]

Great vid. D great point throughout...on both blades that bear bowie was in my sites ..like how it performs....

[@DonnieBAllDay]

you wouldn't be disappointed

[@MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV]

Excellent insightful test analysis,valuable pointers! I like how you called out the foolish snobs! Based on your test and JoeX's, the only superior aspect that the thicker Bowie knife has is with the blade weight momentum. I was surprised to see JoeX break both the Cold Steel Western Bowie and 1917 Bowie knifes blades. However, he could not break the Cold Steel Black Bear Bowie Machete blade! Based on that, I will take the Cold Steel Black Bear Bowie and regular Bowie Machete over the more expensive Bowie knives. These Cold Steel hybrid Machete Knife/ Swords are virtually indestructible!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

its a better knife than it gets credit for

[@MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV]

@DonnieBAllDay Yes, indeed, it is. Have you handled the older Cold Steel Bowie Machete? If you have, how do you compare it to this newer CS Black Bear Bowie Machete?

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I like the BB better@@MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV

[@tangsoodoarnis4life]

Awesome video brother and I agree with you one who is the savage” the one being a jerk or acting with ignorance “. If I had to choose I would go with the CS Bowie machete.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Savage has always been used in the wrong text

[@taylorjeremy71]

Bowie knife vs Bowie machete 🤯 DBAD you just made my mofo Sunday brotha.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Haha! Somebody had to do it

[@ronalddunne3413]

Glad you missed your leg! Day-um, dude... Interesting vid comparisions.. Ive always sworn by original Lynn Thompson Cold Steel products. I have read that the "original" Bowie knifes were designed by the Bowie Bros and James Black, their smith in Arkansas- as a fighter- which turned out to be very useful camp/do it all knife.. After the Sandbar situation.. Rezin got together with James Black and designed the knives based on Jim Bowie's input and experience. These days, anything with a longer, clip-pointed blade is a generic "bowie".. The steel on that machete bowie is probably very similar to the steel used on the early bowies available to most frontiersman. The closest I have to the early knives, steelwise- is probably an older Western W49... which even so is probably a lot better steel than that available on the frontier back when... NOT to denigrate the role of the hawks by frontiersmen of both red and white persuasion. I tend to agree with Robert Heinlein's assessment in "Tunnel In The Sky", that a properly-regulated explorer in primitive conditions needs three knives- a smaller pocket knife, a mid-size general purpose belt knife, and a large blade for heavy work or self defense situations. As always ya go with what works for one's self. 🤠

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Black and Musso are both credited for the brass guard knife that was originally thought to be designed by Rezin. We'll never know. As far as the sand bar, they may have found the knife! It was recently discovered. The coffin grips are long gone and the blade is more rust than knife, but the pins in the coffin tang are still there and are a perfect match to Jims blade

[@jerseyknifeguy6382]

I have to look around for a decent Bowie knife!!!! I have to pick one up I’m on 4 acres of woods here.... I want to go in the woods I used to!!!!! Thanks brother

[@DonnieBAllDay]

So many good ones. Being a Case fan I'm surprised you didn't get the XX

[@elliotdryden7560]

DBAD nails it again. I can peel a cherry tomato with just about any of my Bowies. Undertaker, American 502, Gold Rush, or either Espada XL. I could also field-dress a Giraffe, and I cannot do that with an SAK SD pen knife.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Truth!

[@KnifeKandy]

Holy cow thank God you didn’t stab yourself with that bowie. I did the same thing in the high Sierra’s with my CS recon scout trying to collect fat wood. Good times!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Would make for good content! Haha

[@motorcyclemark2889]

If I hung a bowie on my belt I would need suspenders or have to wear bibs or I'd loose my britches I prefer a sling for large blades got no ass to hold it up .

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Hahaha! Well... then there's that

[@latwoz]

Another awesome review with some awesome advice thanks Dbad

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Thanks bro

[@armorvestrus4119]

I kept a Big Bowie knife in my storage sheaf for years until one day I tested battoning wood with it. After that started to love the Bowie knife in all its forms. No more little six inch blades for me. I want a knife that can cut wood for a fire and also cut up the bear that I killed with it for food. LOL You just can't beat a Bowie knife for all around use.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

they are king of blades

[@TheShredderKnifeReviews]

Really enjoyed this man!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

You just like the name drops! haha

[@CharlesHenning]

13:26 Nice impromptu microphone. That machete sure does get er done.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

It's so fun to swing

[@motorcyclemark2889]

The first person I've ever seen swinging two choppers same time lol

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I cut down some trees like that in a couple videos. I'm not right in the head

[@doomsdaymachine619]

I'll be honest. I like both. I am actually surprised by the chipaway. It kept up with the Cold Steel. I think I like the look of the Chipaway a little more. I would just customize the handle to fit my fingers.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Good for the money

[@beckystiles1754]

Just added the book to my cart now I gotta find a knife to go with it to get free shipping 😂

[@DonnieBAllDay]

That's the hard part! haha

[@golickaflagpole3557]

Been eying the CS Bowie Machete for over a year now, now i KNOW i need one! Haha would make a great farm/camp tool to just beat the snot out of

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Worth it

[@tomritter493]

Both looked great

[@DonnieBAllDay]

They get the job done

[@JuaneDosesII-wj6dd]

The machete version is extremely durable

[@DonnieBAllDay]

it is

[@levinivison1024]

I have the Cold Steel Black Bear bowie in my Bug Out bag because its lighter.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Great pack blade

[@Captain-Electro]

Leg... not to be confused with Log! 😳

[@DonnieBAllDay]

It's so close I always get it wrong

[@wyatthines153]

just further proof that the bowie is really the only way to go

[@DonnieBAllDay]

King of blades

[@minarchist1776]

When it comes to digging in the dirt I think I would prefer to use the knife to carve a suitable stick to dig with and use the stick. Why put more wear on your knife blade than you have to? And you can always carve another stick when the first one breaks or wears out.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

In combat training we learn the importance of a good trenching knife. Carving a stick is going to put more wear on your edge if the dirt is soft. If the terrain is rocky, the stick wont work.

[@davekelly9657]

Always love me some big sharp steel. 🗡🇺🇸✌

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Hell yeah!

[@MikeHalley]

I love a bowie with weight to the blade.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Me too

[@blindowl-bushcraft-survival]

wow great blades

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Fun at play

[@idaho1959kkidd]

Good 👍video

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Thanks

[@totheendful]

Hey man let me get that Bowie knife with your signature on it the case one

[@DonnieBAllDay]

You mean the $200 Case XX Bowie? As in my favorite? Haha

[@scotthealey1887]

ide go the cold steel black bear.

[@DonnieBAllDay]

You wouldn't be disappointed

[@jimmyj4811]

Bowies are wonderful!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I agree

[@jnzupka]

Personally I think The Cold Steel Wild West Bowie would’ve been a more fitting opponent for the Black Bear Bowie Machete Still an excellent video But since I think cold steel machetes actually outshine most other blades in that price range

[@DonnieBAllDay]

I wanted budget steel. The WWB is definitely not that

[@jnzupka]

@@DonnieBAllDay I thought 1090 was relatively common

[@DonnieBAllDay]

@@jnzupka Not budget. 1090 is a high performing high carbon steel.

[@jnzupka]

@@DonnieBAllDay I figured since it and 1095 were abundant, I thought it was common in budget items as well

[@DonnieBAllDay]

@@jnzupka It should be that way. But it comes down to the steel standards and properties. Some steel is just much cheaper. 1084 is one of those common great steels and it's cost is less than a 1095, but its properties keep it from being budget steel.

[@Damien984]

the best one is a DBAD Preacher HAHAHA and i have one you can pout the photo's i give it to you lolll

[@DonnieBAllDay]

That Preacher will chop other knives in half

[@Damien984]

@@DonnieBAllDay i know my friend

[@Damien984]

szco bowie is a good one ??? for the wood savage camping ??? ok i have a DBAD Preacher but you know just for know and don't make not andomage it you know sorry for my english i'm a french man from Québec city

[@DonnieBAllDay]

Mine has never failed me

[@Damien984]

@@DonnieBAllDay mine to

[@jeffaschbacher3334]

🇺🇸

[@DonnieBAllDay]

USA!

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

What’s going on Dbad!!!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

lovin' livin'

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

@@DonnieBAllDay lovin the cold steel machete bowie. Got one myself!

[@DonnieBAllDay]

@@LegionTacticoolCutlery great Blade

[@Jimmy-gd5ho]

What $100 bowie you recommend??? Large and incharge of course. No ka bar big brother, not a fan of the shape, need more "classic style'" other than that a tops steel eagle would be the best bet

[@DonnieBAllDay]

The best, the dbad Preacher. In that price range there is the Ontario Raider. The Condor Undertaker. For cheap money, the Szco High Carbon Bowie. There are a bunch. But that Preacher at $99 should be $200 minimum.