Back Story of Your Favourite.

bucksway

bucksway

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Every rare Buck has a story..I find the story of the hunt the most fascinating part of collecting in fact it can be more amazing than the knife itself. This SPS is a perfect example of a hunt and rare (1 of 1) in Armand's story about his odd 422. He had the sheith for 8 years and wondered what the knife looked like and after all that time he found it! Turns out it was a sample most likely made for a salesman at Buck and thru luck AND dedicated looking he found it. Skyler sometimes looks for years for a rare big Buck..even if it was just a rumour he heard years back. My brother David tracked down old employees just to talk about a particular 110 he had heard about ...
So share some of your great adventures hunting down rare odd Bucks! I just made a multi knife trade because a BCCI member remembered a knife I had talked about briefly here a dozen years ago! It stuck in his mind all that time.. I bet there's some great stories that yall can share !
 
I was searching online and there she was. The 110 of my dreams ... All I had to do was hit the "Buy Now" button and send payment.

Another time I was at a gun show and trying to haggle the seller to lower the price on another 110 I really liked.

That's how a lot of my stories start out.
 
I will share a good story. I used to teach a Single Adult class at church. They were a great bunch. My 303 came up missing and several in the class knew I liked Buck pocket knives. So, they collected the money and bought me a new one. True, it was not the old style. However, it came from them and that made it more special.
 
So where is your story? You told 2 other peoples stories and now they don't have one?

I don't hunt for rare old Bucks, I hunt with them. But if I can find an odd, rare 112 I would buy it and display it...

I was hunting with a friend up in the local mtns., where I worked they always called me the knife guy, it was right before the snows the forest service clears all the drainage ways and right in front of me was a Buck knife laying there half sticking out of the dirt. Then I was called by everybody the knife guy...
 
I don't have anything old or rare, and my 119 is the only that wasn't a simple " buy off the rack ".

Long story short I wanted a 119 with factory left handed sheath and, a generous member offered me a clean lightly used 2010 119 with lefty sheath ordred from Buck.
now I'm the proud owner of it, and have a hard time not just leaving it on my belt 365.
 
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sassafrassdogs3 said:
So where is your story? You told 2 other peoples stories and now they don't have one?

I don't hunt for rare old Bucks, I hunt with them. But if I can find an odd, rare 112 I would buy it and display it...

I was hunting with a friend up in the local mtns., where I worked they always called me the knife guy, it was right before the snows the forest service clears all the drainage ways and right in front of me was a Buck knife laying there half sticking out of the dirt. Then I was called by everybody the knife guy...
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What model ?
You still own and use that knife ?

Great story and you could've been called much worse.
 
Hickory n steel said:
What model ?
You still own and use that knife ?

Great story and you could've been called much worse.
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It was before I was into Buck knives as much as I am now. It was a medium folder similar to a 500 series. It's probably found its way back to the dirt pile where I found it, this was 30 years ago...I haven't seen it for quite awhile, moved a couple of times since then...Maybe someday it'll turn up?

Believe me, I have been called worse...Ha!Ha!
 
sassafrassdogs3 said:
It was before I was into Buck knives as much as I am now. It was a medium folder similar to a 500 series. It's probably found its way back to the dirt pile where I found it, this was 30 years ago...I haven't seen it for quite awhile, moved a couple of times since then...Maybe someday it'll turn up?

Believe me, I have been called worse...Ha!Ha!
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Sounds about what my dad remembers of his Buck he took when he reported to ft Bliss.
All he remembers is that it was a smaller Buck droppoint lockback, so I'm thinking it was probably 503.
 
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Not rare, but a common item - I am a fan of common items and rarely buy a commemorative or limited edition (an AAPK or Blade Forum knife being the exception). This Buck 301 was my first Buck Knife. I used to haunt the gun and knife department at H.L. Hodges Hardware when I was a boy (mid to late 1960's). My grandma let me pick out a Buck Knife and bring it to her at the jewelry store where she had the jeweler put my initials on the bolster. I carried the Buck from early 1973 (when I was a senior in HS) until I retired the knife when she passed away in 1989. It is a cherished possession. OH
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bucksway said:
Every rare Buck has a story..I find the story of the hunt the most fascinating part of collecting in fact it can be more amazing than the knife itself. This SPS is a perfect example of a hunt and rare (1 of 1) in Armand's story about his odd 422. He had the sheith for 8 years and wondered what the knife looked like and after all that time he found it! Turns out it was a sample most likely made for a salesman at Buck and thru luck AND dedicated looking he found it. Skyler sometimes looks for years for a rare big Buck..even if it was just a rumour he heard years back. My brother David tracked down old employees just to talk about a particular 110 he had heard about ...
So share some of your great adventures hunting down rare odd Bucks! I just made a multi knife trade because a BCCI member remembered a knife I had talked about briefly here a dozen years ago! It stuck in his mind all that time.. I bet there's some great stories that yall can share !
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Good idea Clinton, I'm sure there's lots of great stories out there. I sure would love to read more on how they came across a knife that they really wanted or seen in a magazine and they finally came across it. Even new from a store right off the Peg or out hunting or hiking or camping excetera. I didn't even know that buck made so many different knives, until I joined the blade forums. And the hunt has been on ever since. I'm more of a collector then a user of my knives. But I enjoy and cherish every one of them that I have. I hope my grandkids enjoy my knives as much as I did when I'm long gone.
 
One of my stories is my search for a BG42 bladed 112. When I first found the forum here I looked at old threads on odd 112's to look for . I actually had one in my hand in 2007 but condition was only fair. Then one popped up on Ebay..I was excited my quest of a decade was almost over! A snipe came in at the last second and I lost.. In a way I'm glad because my trophy Buck hunt continues.
 
My hunt for a Buck that was rare was back in the 1960's. The Buck 110 was new, it was very expensive, and they were very hard to get. How was I, just a kid, going to get my dream knife. One day, on my birthday, my father walked up and nonchalantly put something in my hand. When I looked, I could not believe my eyes! It was a shining new Buck 110!

That knife was sharp! That knife was sharper than even a Spyderco out of the box. A friend was admiring it later that day and handed the knife back to me. Then, he kept wiping what he thought was sweat off of his hand and looked and he had dozens of tiny little cuts where he had turned the blade over to admire it and was cut each time, but the knife being so sharp, he never felt any of them.

I felled small trees, opened metal cans of food, skinned animals of all sorts, carried that knife day in and day out in my back pocket for many years. I still have it in storage and it is still tight.
 
I was at a gun show and saw a hard used Buck Mayo TNT...The guy said; Want it? Got it in a trade...I'll take $40 for it. I did not counter offer :) my kid said he'd of bought if I didn't.

It was a knife I coveted but only now could afford.
 
I found a 2 dot 110 at the lawn shop, kinda rough condition, no sheath ... I had the $14 they wanted for it, so I bought it.
I think it is a 5-7; the last of the two small cover pins.
 
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