Originally posted by Mr. Dave:
Geez Hoodoo, every thread I look in has you posting about the Badger Attack! You know what's gonna happen now, don't you? My Basic 7 (first Busse ) will get here. Sure I'll be happy about it until I start thinking to myself, "Self, Hoodoo turns summersaults and wets his pants over the Badger Attack. And dang it, he knows something about knives too, walking around with those wild animals all day. Guess I'd better get one too."
So how many hundreds did all your enthusiasm set me back?
I have to admit, I'm stricken with Badger fever (and mean street fever too). And now they are going to bend the handle on the darn thing.
List on the Badger is something like $250. But what you get is an indestructable knife WITHOUT a rubber handle. And that nice long exposed tang! Beat with it and you have much less chance to muck up the scales. Nice taper in the point for a thick knive, Etc, etc. What can I say but gush over the thing. I know I'm sounding like a broken record but ... oh well.
It's like when I bought my SKB 20 guage side by side. Nothing else is as much fun to carry into the woods.
Sorry to be redundant but my Fallkniven A1, Becker Companion, Buck Nighthawk and a couple of Cold Steels, Kabars and Ontarios just don't stack up to the Badger (just my opinion). Now put a set of micarta grips on a Fallkniven F1, leaving some extra tang on the south end, and we'll talk (they do make a micarta-handled one).
The Fallkniven and Becker rate 2 and 3 for me (although I dislike "rubber handled knives)and I'm sure there are a lot of customs out there that will fill the same niche as the badger but for now, the badger has me purring and contented. And knifenuts are rarely contented. The grass is always greener syndrome. The only thing that will make my grass greener is to get another Badger.
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Hoodoo
The low, hoarse purr of the whirling stonethe light-pressd blade,
Diffusing, dropping, sideways-darting, in tiny showers of gold,
Sparkles from the wheel.
Walt Whitman
