BPS Buck Bowie

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I was looking to add a little something to my Buck collection when I came across this on the BPS web site. It was a nice surprise to see it is #3 of 250.
I'll get a better picture if there is any interest.this picture really doesn't do it Justice
 

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I like it!

Could you give us your opinion of it? Model number? Blade steel? Could you measure it? Their site says "Blade length: 8". Overall length: 11", that would make for a 3in handle which doesn't seem right to me. However, I"m tired......

I don't usually like the fixed blade Bucks but that one looks good to me.
 
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"BPS" says it's a 916...

Wilde Bill Cody designed, Bowie custom features a stacked leather handle, coffin-style butt cap, and a mirror-polished blade. Includes black distressed leather sheath. Blade length: 8". Overall length: 11".

Manufacturer model #: 916BRSBP.

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See if this works...

There's a 916 on an auction site which gives the lengths as Overall length 12 3/8" Blade length 8", and looks like this -

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I'd check the Buck site...Or I could, if it didn't take 20 minutes to load a single page... :grumpy:

My WAG would be BPS made a misprint...The blade lengths look the same, and so do the grip lengths...
 
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Thanks!

Looks to be the same blade, just a different handle.

Pondering it for now, I have time to do that..................
 
:cool:...If the blade on the BPS knife is 8" then that's the longest lookin' 3" handle I ever saw...Is that a "U.S. inch"???...:eek:
 
Hay 'Trax that is the verry same blade i seen in the boxes stacked up at buck jest before going in to the laser room!! and hay it is less then a custom 110!!!! why of all the dang burn things to do ... sell a bowie fer less den a 110! the nerve!!

far as i know all inches are the same every place..
it is the gallon that is more in canada..
 
DarrylS said:
:cool:...If the blade on the BPS knife is 8" then that's the longest lookin' 3" handle I ever saw...Is that a "U.S. inch"???...:eek:
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The handle is 4 1/8"l, 3 1/8 leather and a 1" nickle silver pommel.

It's a nice knife, I was hoping it would look better than the picture on the BPS web site and I wasn't disappointed.
 
Definetely a misprint. I could not locate one here to measure but I did find another 916 and the handle length was 4 3/8" from the front of the guard to the end of the handle. The Bass Pro handle might actually be longer by a tad due to the pommel. Nice looking knife!
 
So, they were made up in ID? Is it 420HC or something else? Looks like a 'buy'! Anyone know, or measured, the blade thickness? Thanks!

Stainz
 
Would love to see a "user" model with standard blade finish and not numbered.

I don't like using the pretty models like this one. However, for the price I may have to deal with it.
 
ohen cepel said:
Would love to see a "user" model with standard blade finish and not numbered...
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...Uh...The 2nd one I linked to (the auction knife with the tan sheath) *is* the "standard model"...The one you want is the "Custom"... :p

I'm not sure how Wilde Bill Cody would feel if he found out you want his beautiful custom Bowie knife "dumbed down" so you can use it to probe for mines... :D
 
This is going to be my next purchase!

I don't see it anywhere on Buck's website....you think this could be a completely custom model for BPS or are they going to release them elsewhere? This would be a good replacement for my old Gerber coffin bowie
 
red96ta said:
This is going to be my next purchase!

I don't see it anywhere on Buck's website....you think this could be a completely custom model for BPS or are they going to release them elsewhere? This would be a good replacement for my old Gerber coffin bowie
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I would think they made them for only BPS... There's only 250 of them... They sure look nice... I would love to have one... :confused:
 
Chicken,
Well then, I think I'll just have to grind the number off of it with a sharp rock and then hit it with a can of Wal-Mart's finest flat black spray paint to make it tacti-cool:D

That should make it "just right" for me:)

Oh, and pound a hole through the pommel with a nail for my skull head lanyard:p

Really though, need to ponder this or the custom shop 112. Can't have too many boxes showing up at home at one time. The Wife gets a bit grumpy.
 
ItsTooEarly said:
I would think they made them for only BPS... There's only 250 of them... They sure look nice... I would love to have one... :confused:
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If your wife loved you, she'd let you buy it...If she *really* loved you, she'd buy it for you... ;)

(If she says you already have enough junk, then drop her like a used Kleenex...) :D
 
Chicken,
Thanks! All the great comraderie here, knife info and marriage advice:D

However, I kind of like this one and since I left here home with 2 very young Boys I can't push her too much. May get the Bobbit treatment after 15mns of her holding down the home front alone.
 
ohen cepel said:
Chicken,
Thanks! All the great comraderie here, knife info and marriage advice:D

However, I kind of like this one and since I left here home with 2 very young Boys I can't push her too much. May get the Bobbit treatment after 15mns of her holding down the home front alone.
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The BPS Bowie looks like it should be up to the job!! :eek:
 
I'm not much of a photographer, but here is the best photo I could get.
The blade thickness looks like 5/32", just over 1/8".
 

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