Unboxing The OKC Spec Plus SP19 Raider Bowie Vs. The Western W49 Bowie

[@longrider42]

I have a Western W49, that was made in 84. It used to go hiking with me when I worked in Yellowstone National Park. It is now more or less retired. I still have the sheath for it.

[@jenniferblooms8283]

I've always admired a nicely organized shop. 😉 plus, big knives are cool.😆

[@johnpearson4899]

Ontario makes some good, reliable blades. Especially for the money. My overall favorite fixed blade is an Entrek Silhouette. Unfortunately, they have been discontinued. When I see someone selling one, I buy it, if I can. Always pays to have extras of something you trust and love. Great video. 👍

[@brianheffernan5434]

Great info on the Bowie knife. I think I'm going to order one of those Hells Kitchen T-shirts. Happy Fourth of July.

[@TheGuyMullins]

Thanks for your insight on this passion... I never went through an intense love of knives however, I love my Buck 119 and my Buck 110. Wnen it is said and done a good knife can save your life if placed in the need for that moment to happen. My first wife was great at handling a butterfly knife and the chucks...

[@tonythetourist2025]

The only thing I heard was, “Hells kitchen”,which my old man used to talked about when I was a kid.

[@johnbelmore1178]

Thank you

[@Likedale3]

Hey Mike....how about a video how to correctly sharpen My Woodsmans Pal when it's necessary. Keep up the great videos.

[@silentseawolf]

you can steam or boil active rust and make it into inactive oxide, or bluing. You can remove the bluing with some steel wool if you want. some CLP and a copper penny will scrub rust out too. 1981 or older. some naval jelly if you can find it will zap rust too.

[@njzeigler4370]

I have a 49er the same age as yours, great knives!

[@kriskringlesatticbuckaroob5671]

Great video Mike.

[@kevinfieguth4377]

I also have a collection of Bowie's. One is a 4x Case.

[@George_Lewis]

Thank you for sharing your knives and thoughts. I prefer traditional folders and have quite a collection of them, but I do have four fixed blade knives... nothing like your collection, however. I recently bought an OKC 499 Air Force Survival Knife... I'm former Air Force, so what would one expect? It's the closest thing I have to a fighting and survival knife. I had been looking at them for quite a while and when I found one for little more than half of retail I couldn't pass it up. Anyway, it had a rough grey coating, probably similar to your OKC Bowie. I removed the coating with some 400 steel wool and underneath there is a (hopefully) durable and nice looking matte bluing. One KZbinr was very critical of the OKC 499 survival knife because of it's rat-tail tang and said it wouldn't hold up to the abuse a proper full width tang can take. No kidding... some of the older aircrew survival knives, the Kabar, the Buck 119, and a number of other similar knives also have rat-tail tangs and are more than adequate for the purposes they were designed. I won't be batoning firewood with these knives.

[@AstroVanTribe]

Yeah, I did a video on a partial bug-out-bag I forgot about ten years ago - I had one of them USAF survival knives in it. It does exactly what it was designed to do which in reality is more than most will ever need it for - If you want to chop wood bring an axe or tomahawk - In the end it's all about people making money... Forever man has been surviving with what be viewed today as crap - How was anything ever accomplished without a $600 1/4" thick full tang hunk of steel....

[@George_Lewis]

@@AstroVanTribe I remember that video. I got some good ideas for my own bug-out bag. Thank you.

[@wellregulated8725]

From watching this video…. I think you’ll appreciate my new knife. It’s the V44X!

[@markdavis5246]

👍👍

[@scatman8963]

I really dig that little trench knife

[@lukealberti5094]

Isn't it bad for the knife (and the table) to continuously stab the knife into the table?

[@barrybark3995]

which was your fave Bowie song?

[@AstroVanTribe]

The entire Ziggy Stardust record.....!

[@mmcostin1421]

Just bought a case kodiac you would like the case zippomuseum in Bradford PA. My landi10 miles away

[@lawrencebest9943]

You know you knifes. Have you made any wood working videos? I have seen your videos of finished products but a video where you're actually making the products putting it together.

[@AstroVanTribe]

I don't think I've done any where it's "start-to-finish" - Too much time between steps for me to keep the clips on my phone - Check my playlists

[@jasonwinter8716]

Do you still have your KaBar from the Corps?

[@AstroVanTribe]

Yes, see my video, "lets talk fixed blade knives"

[@kevinhornbuckle]

See how you’re into leather?

[@markupshaw8026]

My what big knives you have,,,a big knife will do the same thing a small knife will but not via versa, just rember,, don't take a knife to a gun fight,,