Active Duty test?

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE???

Beating on poor defensless little knives like that! :eek:

Seriously, who are you? :confused:

Who's this Jerry fellow? :o
 
Hmm I have taken several deer this year and over 2 dozen rabbits from field to table with my custom AD (NOT thick, with thin tip and narrower grind). I have gone through the pelvic bones of those deer and rabbits with the edge. Its held up fine. I did some stropping to maintain the edge but other than that no sharpening was done to it. I guess very few people go out and scream OH MY AD IS SOOOOO FANTASTIC, because we dont have too and most already know it is. I dont even understand the scepticism....its made of INFI which has more than proven itself. its like saying Knife A sucks but knife B doesnt when they are both S30V and have a Paul Bos heat treat.

because I want to say it too. NUFF SAID
 
Tony G said:
The idea that a knife maker’s products that use the exact same steel with the same heat treat need to be tested to destruction in every different size they make is a premise that I can’t see containing any logic. Can you explain why the tests on an INFI knife with a 10 inch blade showing that it is super tough doesn’t say the same for an AD from the same steel & and manufacturing processes?

By the way I have an AD that I routinely pound through firewood. Why? Because I can… and it is fun to see people’s jaw drop when the see me beat on this beautiful knife… and it still looks beautiful.:thumbup:

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Now THAT is one BEAUTIFUL knife Sir:thumbup: Without that choil it would be ALL THAT & A BAG OF CHIPS to me:D
 
barrabas74 said:
I guess very few people go out and scream OH MY AD IS SOOOOO FANTASTIC, because we dont have too and most already know it is. I dont even understand the scepticism....its made of INFI which has more than proven itself. its like saying Knife A sucks but knife B doesnt when they are both S30V and have a Paul Bos heat treat.
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Now this really clears things up. I always assumed that the INFI used in the smaller Busse knives was that cheap Chinese INFI. Now I know better. :cool:
 
I have no idea who anybody on this thread is.

But I think the Cold steel will hold up way better. I have a limited quantity around, and for a limited I'm offering a trade in plan. You only have to pay my shipping and yours. Send me your infi, I'll save you the heartache of it breaking and having to use Busse/Scrap/Swamp's UNCONDITIONAL LIFETIME GUARANTEE!!

I would think to most people a waranty like that would speak volumes about the quality of a product...
 
Sigh, I guess I will have to put my own AD to the test against one of the Buck knives. Oh well..
 
superc said:
Sigh, I guess I will have to put my own AD to the test against one of the Buck knives. Oh well..
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Please take pics and let us know what you come up with.

I am kind of curious to your first post now because if you have an knife made of INFI then why could you not have made an informed comment earlier with results from use?

you said they seem immune from testing yet you own one and have not done it yourself yet?
 
superc said:
Sigh, I guess I will have to put my own AD to the test against one of the Buck knives. Oh well..
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really, you have an AD? I have not seen one post of yours indicating so, but so many discussing Cold Steels you own. So if you have one can you post a pic, I'd like to see it.:thumbup:




superc said:
I have, while working construction, also acquired some experience in destroying knives. My first advice is avoid the big bucks knives. They get just as destroyed and better to be out $50 than $300+....
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Yup, I said that and basically stand behind it having once destroyed an old 70s vintage Randall while working and some other big buck toys . That doesn't mean I won't pick one up now and then at a show or elsewhere if the price is right. What I won't do with the more expensive ones is expose them to wet concrete or use them as tools simply because construction work is the environment where most of my knives fail. Interestingly enough I have only had one or two fail while hunting or doing similar leisure activities. [It should also be noted that when we criticise Cold Steel product tempers when the blade is one of the older Carbon V blades, we really aren't complaining about CS, because those blades were actually Camillus products as CS sells knives of a given pattern but leaves making them to the supplier and that was Camillus in the Carbon V 'Made in the USA' days.]

Here you go, just for you, an AD with some of the others I have mentioned.

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[Incidentally I have no idea why the Buck photographed that color. Trust me it really isn't that color to a human eye.]
 
very nice..:thumbup:

how thick is it?

I do not own any AD's but I have always liked their looks. The handle is the saame as my Meaner Streets and it is very comfortable.
 
Just .191 inches at the ricasso. For the record I have other knives I haven't mentioned before either as this photo hints.

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Thanks for posting the pics superc:thumbup:

Have you had a chance to use it yet? I have several AD's and its my favorite small busse. With the stout tip and thickness I think they would be tuff to put a dent in let alone break. I have done alot with mine through standard use and have slipped and hit the tip of my muddy AD into a concrete floor and the concrete ended up loosing.

Worried about breaking it? PLEASE DONT! lol I have seen very few busse's broke or badly injured, and the ones that were...were either pounded on with a pipe wrench for hours. shoved into concrete blocks and pounded on until broke (skeleton key-small thin busse) or shot with firearms. If you break it with normal or even abnormal use Jerry will replace it for FREE! So use away I have no fear in using mine as I have seen Jerry replace the ones I mentioned and they were ABUSED.

Its expensive...yup. But you wont regret using it AND you'll know personally what that knife will take and how its edge will hold up and if you even like it. And that alone is worth using it.
 
.191 sounds like the heavy duty variant of the .14 active duty. In that event, yes, I'm quite sure it will prove far harder to destroy than an srk.
 
Well, I like my SRK (which incidentally is .23 at the ricasso) so the AD will probably be compared to the Buck product instead of the Camillus made SRK. My current Buck however is only .145 at the ricasso, so maybe I should wait till one of the AD 'lights' cross my path to make it fair. No, I haven't used my AD for anything tougher than cutting blocks of Muenster cheese yet. Waiting on a below $30 sheath to fall out of the sky first.
 
superc said:
Waiting on a below $30 sheath to fall out of the sky first.
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superc, I'm left handed and have an Amoralleather right-handed sheath that came with my GW. I just tried it on the AD and fits nicely. Drop me a line if your interested, its yours for less than $30. :D
 
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