Buck produced Winchester 301 Stockman

Jeff,
I have had the Winchester 301 with MADE IN USA stamp for many years, a long time before the Camillus bankruptcy sale. I will pull my card and see when and where I obtained the knife.
Larry
 
skyhorse said:
Sorry,was referring to the model 1894. U.S. production was shut down in 2006:o
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No worry:), always disappointing when an iconic symbol disappears.

To quote 300Bucks, "Now me and a dozen other people will be carefully looking at the bay 301 Winchesters. I have two of the later ones." Me too, I'd like to find any of those badged 'Winnie Bucks'.

300, thanks, you add so much. I'm glad you take the time to post this great info. Preston
 
Larry Oden said:
Jeff,
I have had the Winchester 301 with MADE IN USA stamp for many years, a long time before the Camillus bankruptcy sale. I will pull my card and see when and where I obtained the knife.
Larry
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Don't go to much trouble Larry, that's mainly what I was curious about. Since you had it well before, that shoots my "post auction parts" down.
 
Jeff,
Today I remembered to check on the BUCK / MADE IN / U.S.A. 301 with Winchester shield in my collection. I'm afraid my input is not definitive because I obtained the knife in 1999 from an eBay auction. I can say that I see no evidence of it having been re-bladed or of the shield being replaced but it is certainly a possibility. As I have written in the past, there is little to gain financially by "reworking" most 300 series knives as the likely return is not worth the effort. For this knife in question, I paid the same amount for it as most anyone would have paid for a similar knife with the standard Buck logo shield. So, with no other known examples, I am lean toward thinking that my knife may have a replaced shield but that is strictly conjecture. Craig, do you have any thoughts on this?
Larry
 
Larry,

If it was anyone but you, I would have to ask: Can you tell if the blade or the shield has been replaced ? Have you really looked. Looked with a glass around the shield for glue seepage or scratches from prying tool, then looked at main blade pivot pin area for signs of reworking/polishing. I would finish by asking does the look of the other blades surfaces match the finish of the main (marked) blade. All that said and done and all OK, I would chalk it up to the "changeover' gremlin. That gremlin who is in the plant that puts the odd blades in at least a few of all models of knives.......usually as models are changing over tang stamps or blades shifts.

I can go with a MIUSA Winchester shield as Buck gremlin factory issue, as I know you have put the high powered glass all over it.................... Will watch for me one now. You got that one just before I was getting Ebay serious.......and after I got my example I quit looking.....I will almost bet someone will come up with another one.

300Bucks
 
Craig,
I have had the knife for 11 years and I am sure I did not look at it with a glass. I have not looked at it closely for years but can dig it out, take a close look and then let you know. I may bring it to Sevierville just for the fun of letting you and a few others discuss it.
Larry
 
Well, you got the high power eye....But, if you bring it, I will take a really good closeup and we can re-open this thread with picture, just to settle things out. I am a gremlin believer. That is, just about anything is possible out on the factory floor....there was probably at least one person with a sense of humor assembling those knives..... I wouldn't swear what I might do if I was there.....I am also a firm believer they used up all available parts at a production run change, which I have heard from Joe and others several times.........300
 
300Bucks said:
I am also a firm believer they used up all available parts at a production run change, which I have heard from Joe and others several times.........300
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I wonder about that myself. I've always had the impression from a phone conversation I had with Vern Taylor back in 2000 or 2001 that the Winchester knives were from the early 80's, I wonder in Camillus used up some older tangstamped blades when they did the Winchester knives and then finished with the current ones form that time???
 
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