Alaskan Guide wish for Cabelas and Buck

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LOL.

In my experience, Buck has never made a regular production knife with a six-inch blade in S30V.

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I'd almost forgotten about this one. Alaskan Guide, 6" blade of S30V made by Buck.

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A special project, not regular production......and we've been talking about hunting knives, not fillet knives, Plumberdv.....but if you want we could speculate on why Cabela's has had these S30V fillet knives on sale for months and can't seem to get rid of them.

:)
 
And theres the 5" Simonich Raven ... Looks like Buck doesn't have any now though.
 
The 800 Series came out several years ago. I'm suprised as much as we bring those up, those that down that steel haven't gotten around to actually testing one for themselves inorder to have some facts. DM
 
That 800 series you mention was just another special project......NOT a regular production knife.

So, I'll repeat (just to make sure there's no confusion) the fact that Buck has never made a regular production knife with a six-inch blade in S30V.

A fact that, combined with JB45-70's statement:

....like to have one of the AG 119's that Joe's BCCI news letter LE/SO list shows was made last year. I never saw one of these knives and could not get anyone from Buck or Cabelas to say if they were made or not.
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Gotta wonder what happened there and why the stonewall on information about it.
 
The OP of this thread was not talking about regular production knives,or did I miss something?:confused:
 
It would be helpful to get a comment from Buck on JB45-70's statement:

....like to have one of the AG 119's that Joe's BCCI news letter LE/SO list shows was made last year. I never saw one of these knives and could not get anyone from Buck or Cabelas to say if they were made or not.
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Maybe these knives are just delayed. It would indeed be nice to get a Buck with a big general-use blade in S30V to see how it would test out in real-world use camping, hunting, etc.
 
I guess there's something wrong with BG42 steel as well because Buck has never used it in a production model fixed blade.I wonder how common tool steel would fare in real -world use.:rolleyes:
 
Yes, there's something wrong with BG-42 steel and most of us who know anything about steel know what it is.

BG-42 is too expensive to work with......modern mass production demands a powder steel like S30V.

Thanks for your question, though. There are always some who do not know and can learn from these posts.
 
skyhorse said:
I guess there's something wrong with BG42 steel as well because Buck has never used it in a production model fixed blade.I wonder how common tool steel would fare in real -world use.:rolleyes:
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I was wondering the same thing about ATS-34 Tom. Buck produced a run of them (119's) as a special projects knife and a few as buildouts but never as a production run as far as I can find.
 
BG42EDGE said:
Yes, there's something wrong with BG-42 steel and most of us who know anything about steel know what it is.

BG-42 is too expensive to work with......modern mass production demands a powder steel like S30V.

Thanks for your question, though. There are always some who do not know and can learn from these posts.
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I guess mass production ball bearings are real expensive,that's what BG42 was designed for but was replaced by more advanced steels.
 
Yeah, it takes a tough and expensive steel to make ball bearings.

They never seem to use these new powder steels like S30V for ball bearings. Wonder why?

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I have used my AG 110 for the last 7 years for mostly cleaning birds. It has performed very well. That being said, I didn't intend to start an argument. I thought with the performance I've got over the last seven hunting seasons with the S30V 110 that a 124 in S30V would perform equally well and be very cool.
 
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I have used my AG 110 for the last 7 years for mostly cleaning birds. It has performed very well. That being said, I didn't intend to start an argument. I thought with the performance I've got over the last seven hunting seasons with the S30V 110 that a 124 in S30V would perform equally well and be very cool.[/QUOTE]

I think alot of folks feel the same.:thumbup:
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+1 for the S30V. :thumbup:

I have used a Buck with S30V this year for the first time and really like the way it holds an edge....much longer than my older 110.
 
BG42EDGE said:
A special project, not regular production......and we've been talking about hunting knives, not fillet knives, Plumberdv.....but if you want we could speculate on why Cabela's has had these S30V fillet knives on sale for months and can't seem to get rid of them.

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Give it up ol' man,buck makkes the best s30 v around even better than the bladetec pro hunter,which is a heckuva knife,the filet knife can be used to do backstrap removal,and is super usefull in that it flexes along the spine getting more meat than a regular "stiff" blade.You don't like the puff puff powder steel,but it works good and doesn't chip out like a lot of other companies' blades using simular steel.........its good don't have a cow man!!!!!!!!!!!
 
There's no argument, I just asked a question about JB45-70's mysterious phantom 119 in S30V.

That ruffled some feathers, obviously. But it's not my problem.

And I would still like to hear an answer from Buck.
 
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