As Jeff Cooper was to 1911s or John Taffin to Sixguns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuZlPJBA61I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVS3K9PeP4A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_bIQUXXKLw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSTkrJ3X_wc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FqUL6slhtA

his book is worth reading as well;
http://www.amazon.com/Bowies-Knives-Best-Battle-Blades/dp/1581601077/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8...

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Lots of good info.

When he called it a BOOOwee my enthusiasm waned expotentially, Rob.
The mans name was then and remains now BOWee.

as does Mr . Bagwell and Keating who have both spent a lifetime studying the man, the techniques and history of and knife.
Wikipedia :James "Jim" Bowie (pronounced /ˈbuːiː/ BOO-ee[1])
^ Manns, William (May-Jun 2004), "The Bowie Knife", American Cowboy 11 (1): 40–43; Janin, Hunt (2007), Fort Bridger, Wyoming, Jefferson: McFarland & Company, p. 138, ISBN 978-0-7864-2912-7; Davis, William C. (1998). Three Roads to the Alamo: The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis. New York: HarperCollins. p. 35. ISBN 0-06-017334-3.
Me, I just like a great blade.

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We have a town in texas named after him and the people bro ounce that name like "gooey" or "buoy".

I need to get a copy of that book and one of his Bowies. He went with us on our Del Rio hunting trip and I got to know him pretty well. He sharpens a knife with a plain India stone and showed me how to do it. I have spent countless hours practicing and can't seem to get it so I just use my Spyderco sticks. They work well but not as well as he does it:)

Bill and I go back to the old Soldier of Fortune days. His Bowie knives just come alive in your hand. We lost contact for a number of years, but we got back together and have shared a number of hunting trips over the past 7 or 8 years. At night we always worked with the knives. You might be amazed at how deadly one of these things is in the hands of someone who knows how to use one.