Replicating a silhouette as iconic as the Bowie knife is risky ... Funny enough, the handle is much more modern, marked by an ergonomic curve and, most interestingly, a button lock.

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 ...

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.