124 Buck

Newest one I have is the latest Micarta.

It's great. Nice balance. Feels like it could stop a truck. I'm invincible when I carry it.

I'm just hoping to meet a Griz.

:D
 
Yeah, we had to get rid of them along with the buffalo.

They both tended to annoy (and sometimes stomp and chew) the settlers.

:D
 
Off topic but I would say eradication or the American Bison (technically not Buffalo) had more to do with denying a food source
to the first citizens forcing them into submission.

One factor was that for a long time, the country’s highest generals, politicians, and even then President Ulysses S. Grant saw
the destruction of buffalo as solution to the country’s Indian problem.
 
Last edited:
DeSotoSky said:
Off topic but I would say eradication or the American Bison (technically not Buffalo) had more to do with denying a food source
to the first citizens forcing them into submission.

One factor was that for a long time, the country’s highest generals, politicians, and even then President Ulysses S. Grant saw
the destruction of buffalo as solution to the country’s Indian problem.
Click to expand...

MORE OFF TOPIC: F V Hayden who led several expeditions to the Rocky Mountain area saw destruction of buffalo as central to the "Indian problem". His advice for effective elimination of the buffalo was to concentrate on killing the cows rather than the bulls. For breeding purposes there is always an excess of bulls, but eliminate one cow and that's one less calf that is born.

Bert
 
Last edited:
DeSotoSky said:
Off topic but I would say eradication or the American Bison (technically not Buffalo) had more to do with denying a food source
to the first citizens forcing them into submission.

One factor was that for a long time, the country’s highest generals, politicians, and even then President Ulysses S. Grant saw
the destruction of buffalo as solution to the country’s Indian problem.
Click to expand...

Of course that's not from the point of view of the settlers who were getting chewed and stomped.

:)
 
Bison were killed for there hides and tongues. Smoked tongue was considered a real treat..Years later a market develop for the skulls and bones.
 
I always figured it was (partly) to make room for herds of cows.

Although I’m sure the starving Native Americans into submission played a part.

The 124 is clearly a step above the other Buck production knives. I think it needs a title. The King? The Crown Jewel?
 
DeSotoSky said:
Off topic but I would say eradication or the American Bison (technically not Buffalo) had more to do with denying a food source
to the first citizens forcing them into submission.

One factor was that for a long time, the country’s highest generals, politicians, and even then President Ulysses S. Grant saw
the destruction of buffalo as solution to the country’s Indian problem.
Click to expand...


bertl said:
MORE OFF TOPIC: F V Hayden who led several expeditions to the Rocky Mountain area saw destruction of buffalo as central to the "Indian problem". His advice for effective elimination of the buffalo was to concentrate on killing the cows rather than the bulls. For breeding purposes there is always an excess of bulls, but eliminate one cow and that's one less calf that is born.

Bert
Click to expand...

"Paw! Paw! Them damned buffaloes is in the garden again!!!"

"Chase'em out yourself! Last time I went out there I got hooked, tossed and stomped!"

Paw didn't get any broccoli for supper.

(That ain't all he didn't get.)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top