Buck Marksman, looking for comments...

Makael said:
I'm not obsessing. I just don't think judging a knife by dropping it is fair. I've dropped mine as well with no issues. I stripped the paint to get rid of the screwed up black paint. I believe the knife is a hard use tactical knife and every review I've seen agrees.

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I disagree, if something can accidentally fall a short distance and then be rendered useless, its tactical applications and reliability are more limited. I'd trust a framelock, backlock or scorpion lock more than the marksman. It's like carrying a gun that failed a drop test.
 
Stephen W Huyssoon said:
Concept? I thought we were discussing experience. My experience is that I defended myself one time against an animal attack with one (forward) swipe of my Marksman and now it is unuseable. I don't CARE about your concepts.
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can you elaborate on what happened and why the knife is failed from the use? thanks.
 
unwisefool said:
My mistake, I thought you were comparing the marksman to the 110, sorry about that. 110 is a solid knife, my only concern would be how fast you'd be able to deploy the blade one handed if you needed to defend yourself again.
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The time it will take is probably a good thing considering how much I love dogs. I usually see them coming.
 
Unknownroad said:
I just wanted to post a link here to the ridiculous torture test Makael put his Buck Marksman 830 through (which goes far, far beyond a simple drop test; the things he did to the knife would cause many more expensive knives to fail) in case anyone who finds this thread in the future, as I did, was curious about the absurd toughness of this knife.

Much appreciated, Makael!

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/i-tried-and-couldnt-break-the-buck-marksman-photo-heavy.1593240/
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That's great and all, but mine still broke. It's almost like different people can have different experiences. Or that the same model knives might be put together with varying tolerances. Amazing....
 
Makael said:
Pictures or it didn't happen.
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Pictures of the knife I fixed? What's that going to prove? Or do you want pictures of where it impacted on the knife? I'm not sure why you are having such a hard time believing this, it's not like I go around dissing knives every chance I get. Your determination to believe that nothing could make a buck marksman inoperable is a little concerning...
 
Don't be a fool. I know things break. It's your assumption that they all break.

It is what it is. Too bad yours broke but you fixed it. Did you have the parts? Did it just need an adjustment? If an adjustment is all that was needed then it's no different than any pivot on any knife.

So you dropped your and the lock came out of adjustment? So you adjusted it and moved on except to blab your experience in a Buck hosted forum?

I gotta admit, it's a little concerning, then again its not.
 
Makael said:
Don't be a fool. I know things break. It's your assumption that they all break.

It is what it is. Too bad yours broke but you fixed it. Did you have the parts? Did it just need an adjustment? If an adjustment is all that was needed then it's no different than any pivot on any knife.

So you dropped your and the lock came out of adjustment? So you adjusted it and moved on except to blab your experience in a Buck hosted forum?

I gotta admit, it's a little concerning, then again its not.
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We've been over what happened more than a few times. And the lock not working after a small drop is concerning, at least to me. Maybe you don't have the same requirements to have a knife be reliable. And I'm not sure what me blabbing about what happened on the buck forum gets you all hot and bothered. It's a discussion about their knife, where the hell am I supposed to discuss it? I'm not telling people not to buy it, heck afre days ago I posted it's one of the knives with the best flipping action I've used. It's just not a hard use, tactical knife.
 
I ground the thing into cement under the wheel of a 3/4 truck, then gravel, threw it multiple times down a paved road, threw it at a large rock in my front yard, it still works. The pocket clip broke. I took pictures of every step. So yeah, in my proof of abuse it's a hard use knife.
 
I'm not wrong stud, I tried to break it and documented it. Plus the many reviews out there. You just have a hard on for your opinion as fact. It's not. Just an opinion. In my opinion it is. Plus pics. You have none. So it didn't happen.
 
Your knife needed an adjustment. Maybe it left the factory in a state of build that allowed the knife to come out of adjustment when You dropped it.
Your experience is rare, otherwise it would be posted all over the place.
 
Someone brings up thoughts on Marksman and all of a sudden you appear. Your credibility is shot.

Have some input other than your 30 inch drop rendered the knife inoperable. But yet you fixed it. That's awesome.

The lock is rated at 700 lbs.
 
I loved everything about the Marksman except the aluminum handles... I need to get one of those SK g10 models someday. Truly an amazing flipper.
 
Maybe I got a bad sample, but I'm not taking the chance. So in my experience, it's not a good lock if you need to stake your life on it. End of discussion.
 
Makael said:
Someone brings up thoughts on Marksman and all of a sudden you appear. Your credibility is shot.

Have some input other than your 30 inch drop rendered the knife inoperable. But yet you fixed it. That's awesome.

The lock is rated at 700 lbs.
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I got an alert that someone had replied to a thread I commented. And you can shove your stupid thoughts about my credibility where the sun don't shine. What an ass.
 
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