Show me your Bushmen

[kirk13]

Ok,so my Cold Steel Bushman Bowie arrived this morning

For £30 I'm very pleased

What I'd like to see,or hear about is this:

I know a lot of folks have added some sort of covering to the handle for extra grip,or have added useful goodies to the interior of the handle,or to the generous pouch on the sheath...so if you've done anything like this with your Bushman,lets see the pix!

[AimlessWanderer]

I have the bowie and the standard (not been able to track down a discontinued mini at a decent price), and played around with both stuffing the handles and covering them. I tried bicycle inner tube for a handle cover, wrapped paracord, and both together. Rubber was sweaty, sticky, deteriorated and distorted easily, paracord was just as bad if not worse as it was also too bulky.

I also played with stuffing the handles, but wasn't happy with that either.

If you are planning on doing any light chopping with it, you either need to empty the handle beforehand and repack after which is a PITA plus there's a chance of losing something, or you can use it full. If you use it full it will not only rattle and risk damaging the contents (dependent on what's stowed in there), but it will also shift the centre of gravity backwards into your hand making it less effective at chopping.

Now both of them are just plain empty handles, and to be honest I've found that much better 

[kirk13]

  I hate it when your senseable

[AimlessWanderer]

It's the beard ... 

[Taxi Dad]

I have the bowie and the standard (not been able to track down a discontinued mini at a decent price), and played around with both stuffing the handles and covering them. I tried bicycle inner tube for a handle cover, wrapped paracord, and both together. Rubber was sweaty, sticky, deteriorated and distorted easily, paracord was just as bad if not worse as it was also too bulky.

I also played with stuffing the handles, but wasn't happy with that either.

If you are planning on doing any light chopping with it, you either need to empty the handle beforehand and repack after which is a PITA plus there's a chance of losing something, or you can use it full. If you use it full it will not only rattle and risk damaging the contents (dependent on what's stowed in there), but it will also shift the centre of gravity backwards into your hand making it less effective at chopping.

Now both of them are just plain empty handles, and to be honest I've found that much better 

+ 1 to wot he said ! (i'm a little concerned i'm agreeing with Al to be honest, but it is good advice)

plenty of pouch to store crap ! and if you get attacked by zombies and need to attach a pol.....

[AimlessWanderer]

Has it got to be a Pole, or will any member of the European Union do? 

More options is always better 

[kirk13]

Thing is a Pole will do it cheap,on time and do a good job of it to boot

[enki_ck]

[jzmtl]

I had one and found the steel to be very soft, guess they have to or it'll snap when used as spear.

[kirk13]

I had one and found the steel to be very soft, guess they have to or it'll snap when used as spear.

  I was reading about your adventures earlier

[Sparky415]

I read on another site people wrapping handles with ‘tennis racket handle’ tape, might be worth a try 


 
I have to say I was in two minds about opening this thread to begin with

Show me your bush, men   

[Taxi Dad]

you have to take your chances with anything started by Kirk !