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SCI HUNTER'S CONVENTION Everything you might need for any hunt anywhere on the planet will be under one roof in Las Vegas at the 42nd Safari Club International Hunters' Convention. The event will be held February 5-8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. With 2,500 exhibitors from all over the world, SCI visitors can book hunts, shop for guns and related gear, purchase wildlife art and a wide variety of collectables. Seminars will be presented each day for the projected 24,000 international hunters in attendance. Nightly dinners celebrate the many accomplishments of the organization. Top entertainers are scheduled to appear, including Big & Rich, Jeff Foxworthy, Chicago and Beatles tribute band BritBeat. Funds raised during the show support hunter advocacy programs, global wildlife conservation efforts, outdoor education and humanitarian efforts. To register, visit www.showsci.org. This fancy Bowie-style hunting knife (circa 1900) by Tiffany & Co. is silver mounted and with a fringed buffalo leather sheath. It will be among 200 Bowie knives displayed at the Historic Arkansas Museum in Little Rock. Top: The beautiful Gold Inlaid J.P. Sauer & Son shotgun and Lancaster Quad Barreled gun will be offered at Rock Island's December Firearms Auction. BOWIE KNIFE EXHIBIT The largest and most important exhibit ever done on America's iconic contribution to the world of blades – the Bowie knife – will be hosted by Historic Arkansas Museum in downtown Little Rock, December 13 to June 22. "A Sure Defense: The Bowie Knife in America" will trace the history of the country's most famous knife, from just before its birth in 1827 in Natchez, Mississippi, to the skilled craftsmen who keep the classic blade alive to this day in the form of handcrafted reproductions and modernized versions. The exhibit will showcase knife designs associated with Alamo martyr James Bowie and his less famous brother Rezin, in addition to bowie knives once owned by Davy Crockett, Theodore Roosevelt, General Winfield Scott and John Fox "Bowie Knife" Potter. The role of the Bowie knife in the antebellum era is explored along with the Civil War and the opening of the West, and there's a special focus on the role Bowie knives played in the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Among the 19th century knives featured will be those attributed to James Black of Arkansas; Henry Schively and Daniel Searles, known