I've been looking at this knife online as a simple pocketknife with no clip. No one local to me sells it, so I would have to order one to try it. Does anyone pocket carry this knife? Any thoughts as to sturdiness would be appreciated. As always, thanks in advance.
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Bantam BBW
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I did just pick this one up for my pocket, Buck Bantam Realtree Xtra Camo Handles 420HC Lockback Knife 284CMS18 w/lanyard. Like I said it risky business here in Mass.....this one has a legal length, my other one is my old standby COLD STEEL "VOYAGER" I just also aquired this one COLD STEEL "MISTER TWISTER" its like a Opinel only way better! 
Very interesting thread "link belwo" about how your pocket knife does in your pocket in regardless to comfort & dirt etc...300 brought up an excellent idea for compartmentalizing your BUCK knife from the rest of the array of objects in your pocket on a daily basis.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1172689-How-does-your-knife-ride-in-your-pocket
Very interesting thread "link belwo" about how your pocket knife does in your pocket in regardless to comfort & dirt etc...300 brought up an excellent idea for compartmentalizing your BUCK knife from the rest of the array of objects in your pocket on a daily basis.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1172689-How-does-your-knife-ride-in-your-pocket
I have a couple, never really used them hardcore. Its $20 knife made in the USA and its mostly plastic. I wouldnt use it beyond the basic cutting uses. Opening boxes, cutting paper and slicing rope, no way would I go hacking at trees and the like with it.
I thought of the BANTAM as backup for my pocket while hunting.....but on the other hand I have my ~WAVE~ but its allot heavier and way more useful, and served me well. I'll let you know what I think of the bantam after next hunting season of its worthyness to carry it along for a back up If I decide to take with me.
The Bantam BBW is a great pocket knife.
I just left one job where they didn't care about seeing a knife clipped to your pocket to another job where they absolutely do NOT allow us to use anything but the company provided box cutters. My first week at the new job, I attended a meeting with the regional VP. He was standing at the front of the room (before the meeting actually started) and I overheard him telling another manager that if he even sees a clip on an employees' pocket, he will make them take it and put it in their car. The second time he sees it = automatic write-up.
Talk about a sinking feeling!! I've been carrying a knife clipped to my pocket for years!!
I can't bear to be without a knife at all, so I started hunting around my collection to see what might work.
I considered just taking the clip off of one of my normal carry knives, but my OCD won't let me carry a knife with "something" missing. It just drives me nuts!
Plus, most of them are too large.
Then, I found the little Bantam BBW I purchased a few years ago to be a knife I just toss in my check on luggage when I fly. The price was perfect in case some TSA agent decided to help themselves to it.
I started carrying it, and it works perfectly for what I need. Its very lightweight, so it doesn't weigh down your pocket. Its razor sharp, and very easy to touch up. I've used it for anything from opening packages to cutting up cardboard. (Very discreetly, of course! I don't want to get into trouble!)
Since I've started carrying it, I've been checking out info about it online, and I love the different colors it comes in!
The price makes it easy to start a small collection of them!
If you have an Academy Sports, Cabellas, or Bass Pro Shop anywhere near where you live, they all carry this knife.
As a matter of fact, Cabellas carries it in a really cool Copperhead pattern that I think I may just pick up this weekend!
As far as sturdiness goes, its handled all the normal cutting chores you would expect.
Its not a super-duper hard-core tactical knife, but for a lightweight, less-than-$20 made in the USA pocket knife, it can't be beat.
I say get one!
John
I just left one job where they didn't care about seeing a knife clipped to your pocket to another job where they absolutely do NOT allow us to use anything but the company provided box cutters. My first week at the new job, I attended a meeting with the regional VP. He was standing at the front of the room (before the meeting actually started) and I overheard him telling another manager that if he even sees a clip on an employees' pocket, he will make them take it and put it in their car. The second time he sees it = automatic write-up.
Talk about a sinking feeling!! I've been carrying a knife clipped to my pocket for years!!
I can't bear to be without a knife at all, so I started hunting around my collection to see what might work.
I considered just taking the clip off of one of my normal carry knives, but my OCD won't let me carry a knife with "something" missing. It just drives me nuts!
Plus, most of them are too large.
Then, I found the little Bantam BBW I purchased a few years ago to be a knife I just toss in my check on luggage when I fly. The price was perfect in case some TSA agent decided to help themselves to it.
I started carrying it, and it works perfectly for what I need. Its very lightweight, so it doesn't weigh down your pocket. Its razor sharp, and very easy to touch up. I've used it for anything from opening packages to cutting up cardboard. (Very discreetly, of course! I don't want to get into trouble!)
Since I've started carrying it, I've been checking out info about it online, and I love the different colors it comes in!
The price makes it easy to start a small collection of them!
If you have an Academy Sports, Cabellas, or Bass Pro Shop anywhere near where you live, they all carry this knife.
As a matter of fact, Cabellas carries it in a really cool Copperhead pattern that I think I may just pick up this weekend!
As far as sturdiness goes, its handled all the normal cutting chores you would expect.
Its not a super-duper hard-core tactical knife, but for a lightweight, less-than-$20 made in the USA pocket knife, it can't be beat.
I say get one!
John
Flinx, I think I bought your knife from a T.S.A. airport [confiscation] lot #666 at an auction at half moon bay.....LOL and the work thing is kind of joke, but understandable with todays p.c. climate and wackadoos out there. So what have we become? as Ben Franklin once said "Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither" I wore my buck *110* at work all the time back in the 70's & everyone I knew did electicians, steel workers, carpenters, mechanics,machinist even warehouse workers.....
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I like the Bantams... I like the way they feel in hand, and the blade design. There is something therapeutic about opening the knife, and hearing the "click" of the lock too.
The first Bantam I had, I lost. It was clipped into my pocket, and I was walking around a hillside looking for a Coyote I had shot, and when I got back to camp, I realized it was gone... The clip didn't have as much tension as I like, and I had planned on tweaking it later, and didn't really think it would be a problem temporarily. I was wrong.
The next one I got had better tension, and I've never worried about it. The wife liked them so much, after playing with mine, she bought a pink camo version, and a black one.
I know some complain that they aren't sturdy enough to be whackin trees, and splitting firewood, but that's not what I use my knives for. For some reason they are kinda addictive
Matter of fact, I think I will go down to the local Mart store today, and get another
The first Bantam I had, I lost. It was clipped into my pocket, and I was walking around a hillside looking for a Coyote I had shot, and when I got back to camp, I realized it was gone... The clip didn't have as much tension as I like, and I had planned on tweaking it later, and didn't really think it would be a problem temporarily. I was wrong.
The next one I got had better tension, and I've never worried about it. The wife liked them so much, after playing with mine, she bought a pink camo version, and a black one.
I know some complain that they aren't sturdy enough to be whackin trees, and splitting firewood, but that's not what I use my knives for. For some reason they are kinda addictive
Matter of fact, I think I will go down to the local Mart store today, and get another 
Anyways for about 10 years here in Massachusetts the weapon of choice by criminals and wackadoos is the MACHETE! Law enforcement a few days ago tasered a guy who was involved in a Domestic after he rammed their cruiser, he got out brandishing a MACHETE an they shot him dead. Thats been going on here since we have become the WELFARE STATE an had a huge inlfux of illegals here.
Now People are getting upset over sheathed or pocketed folders is just ridicoulas......Whats next that we will loose our freedoms an liberties over.
No lie I was in a pub/restaruant local country bar and one night I was standing by one of the tables and the owners son comes over an says to me to take of my Vanguard, I had just got there from fishing,
I laughed and looked down an said now what prevents as I reach down off the table an take a hefty serrated steak knife off this table an stab someone? LMAO I removed it my Vangaurd because thats his business an he makes the rules for his establishment and I understand that, but I just had to point out the ridicoulas situation with a setting of 4 hefty serrated steaks knives right in hands reach on the table setting......with 25 tables 7 booths full of knives He was fine with the Buck Styled knives in a belt sheath though....so he ain't that bad. LOL
Now People are getting upset over sheathed or pocketed folders is just ridicoulas......Whats next that we will loose our freedoms an liberties over.
No lie I was in a pub/restaruant local country bar and one night I was standing by one of the tables and the owners son comes over an says to me to take of my Vanguard, I had just got there from fishing,
I laughed and looked down an said now what prevents as I reach down off the table an take a hefty serrated steak knife off this table an stab someone? LMAO I removed it my Vangaurd because thats his business an he makes the rules for his establishment and I understand that, but I just had to point out the ridicoulas situation with a setting of 4 hefty serrated steaks knives right in hands reach on the table setting......with 25 tables 7 booths full of knives He was fine with the Buck Styled knives in a belt sheath though....so he ain't that bad. LOL