Loosearrow. What good is a mountain man knife if it can't carve out a few feathersticks to start a campfire? Howard etc. To give you an idea of what they mean by "hand production," check out this video of workers in Puma's Solingen, Germany plant, crafting their famed White Hunter knife from start to finish: When he made a second to replace the first, it also was purchased. The ricasso is only about 1/4" and the plunge line appears to be reworked.Alan, On the examples you gave the handle was pinned with 3 single pins. Yep, there has been no Jeremiah Johnson one....but ooooh if they ever do one, I'll be gettin' it!!!! The stag handle at the ricasso is cut at 90 degrees as if it were butted up to a guard. On a recent trip to the Buffalo Bill Cody Museum I was able to photograph a bowie knife purported to be owned by a Mountain Man named Jeremiah, (aka Liver Eating), Johnson made famous in part by the movie; Jeremiah Johnson staring Robert Redford and the book; Liver Eating Johnson. All rights reserved. In the winter of 1863 Johnston joined the 1st Division 2nd Colorado Calvary 4th Brigade H Company as a Private/Scout in the Civil War. The Bowie comes with a beautiful hand-made chocolate-brown leather sheath that is both stitched and riveted together. The knife is held in place with a single leather retention strap with a heavy metal snap. If I were reproducing Johnston's knife, I'd just copy the knife as is, only with a 1/4-1/2" more tip so the grind line ends at the center of the tip, and a nickle silver guard.You need to be a member in order to leave a commentSign up for a new account in our community. Was it a Western 49 in a mountain man sheath? 10.625". It's about 3/8" thick at the ricasso. I can't remember the knife he used in the movie. Some say they should be dull. REVIEW: The Puma Bowie Knife- For The Jeremiah Johnson In All Of Us...... "Jeremiah Johnson made his way into the mountains Bettin' on forgettin' all the troubles that he knew The trail was wide and narrow This one's for you Dad..... About the author The knife is traced in his hand on the letterhead, around the note. It has a distal taper both ways. At the dawn of the Mexican-American war, he left home to enlist in the Navy.However, his stint as a sailor didn’t last long either. In light of his history working at Weirton Steel Mill as a blacksmith’s assistant, he knew that he had the skills to make his own knife at a much lower cost. Jeremiah Johnson, a 1972 film by Sydney Pollack starring Robert Redford; John Johnston, Felton & Fowler's Famous Americans You Never Knew Existed, By Bruce Felton and Mark Fowler, Stein and Day, 1979 ISBN 978-0-8128-2511-4; Butchery of the Mountain Man by William W. Johnstone features Johnson as friends with the main character. According to Puma, it takes 25 different hand production steps to complete a finished Bowie. Is it possible that the knife might have been re-handled and at that time the guard removed? Since the Bowie is primarily a hunting knife, we decided to try it out on a fresh Christmas turkey to see how it would perform. When he withdrew his knife, there was a bit of liver remaining on the blade. So did Jeremiah rework the knife or did a subsequent owner? Here's some links to what it probably started life as, although these look a bit later to my eye:This thing is a club. Jeremiah goes from green horn to mythical figure while on his trek. Unique sailor's Clip-Point Bowie knife, ca. Any help would be appreciated. Hoyt and his son Al moved to San Diego and set up shop as H.H. I still think the knife is more or less original, and the missing guard and possibly broken and resharpened tip (look at the grind line at the tip) are just from heavy use, not intentional modification. Email him at rockymountainbushcraft @ hotmail.com (without spaces) To test the strength of the Bowie's tip, I jammed it into a dead Ponderosa Pine log and twisted it around multiple times.

I’ve always felt that Puma made some of the most beautiful and functional production knife sheaths. The Puma Bowie....... somehow, I feel like a real mountain man when I carry this knife, like I just stepped back into the 1840s. Though the Bowie's shallow V-grind doesn't carve as well as a good Scandi-grind knife, it still did a good job creating feathersticks during our tests. In JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and the "Lord of the Rings," the Elves were reputed to be the finest ... Back in my teen years, I was lucky enough to own an original Armalite AR-7 .22 survival rifle. When I received the Bowie, I was rather surprised to find that the back of the blade was fairly sharp, so I suspected it might be good for striking a firesteel. "Jeremiah Johnson made his way into the mountains It has a lanyard cord at the bottom of the sheath to secure it to your leg, as well as cord at the top of the belt loop that can be threaded through the lanyard hole in the knife for extra retention. The film was written by John Milius and directed by Sydney Pollack, who also collaborated with … Most of Johnston’s life is preserved through oral histories.

:-)) bodybuilding and martial arts.Swords, knives, tools. As a joke Johnston turned to his friends, held up his knife, and then asked if they “wanted a chaw”. Discussion in 'Wilderness & Survival Skills' started by Loosearrow, Oct 30, 2009. I'll keep on lookin' though, maybe one of these days they'll put one out.
It was a real honor.

As expected, the Bowie, was an excellent meat carver. RW Wilson has been making custom-made knives and tomahawks for over 40 years. It may even be the original scales; when I was younger, I often used to go in the woods and throw random cheap knives at tree stumps and various non-living things (actually, who am I kidding, I still do that all the time It looks like it originally had a thin guard to me. He is well-known in the business, has received many awards, has been in many trade magazines, has been a member of the Guild and the ABS, made 500 of the Texas Rangers commemorative tomahawks one year and also made all of the tomahawks for the movie, Jeremiah Johnson.

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