But that doesn’t really matter. Bowie knives of the time were fearsome tools designed for combat. Today, they also excel at tasks around camp. From chopping tent stakes to splitting kindling and ...

Well, it wasn’t really Jim Bowie’s knife, but it looked enough like one for an Alamo curator to put it on display for 10 years.

You really want a small hunting knife to field dress a deer. What you’re doing is akin to surgery, and you wouldn’t want a surgeon to pull your appendix out with a bowie knife. That said ...