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I found this last night
http://www.buckknives.com/index.cfm?event=product.detail&productID=4209
I can't find much about it. Few reviews and nobody talking about it online.
Is it that new?
I think I might have to get one. With a street price around $55-60 it looks to be a good U.S.A. made Buck.
Please let me know what you think.
The TOP's Dart and Buck/Hood Thug are the only other knives of this style I can think of. Any others?
 
I like that shape. I like even more that it's not stupid thick. The one with the skull handles is a bit tasteless to me, and that's ramped up by the black powder coat on the blade. The snakeskin handled version is much more pleasing to me. Damned if I'd pay anything like that for 420HC, but as a bit of design, yeah cool. I can see the appeal.
 
baldtaco, I agree with most of what you said.Thickness is good and it does look a little "tactacool". 420HC would not be my first choice but it has worked well for Buck for a long time and with Bos heat treat I think it would do OK.
I guess we will find out as I orderd one and it should be here in a day or two. Found one for well under MSRP and thought I would take one for the team.:)
Looking forward to wearing off some of that coating.
 
LG&M, hola....................................Pukka. Just for reference – I don't have a particular down on that steel, only that the market is very competitive now. So unless there's something extremely unique about a knife design that really gets me buzzing I can easily pass and something in a comparable material will show up soon enough, often improved in some way 'cos it's standing on the shoulders of something else, and I don't get to pay the premium for being an early adopter. I'm sure that steel will be just fine, especially because of the Bos treatment. Hell, the old Nighthawk is still loved by many actual users despite the legions of armchair theorists that would cock a snook at it. It just reminds me of a time when I would repeatedly pay a fair amount for Seki SOGs in AUS6 and not flinch. They all worked just fine. Now though, I would literally have to find something bizarre and irresistible to pay what I was for that, or even a quarter as much. If you've snagged one of these at a bargain price then, more power to you. Whilst it isn't my ideal flavour now it does look like something I could have a lot of fun with. I recall finding a lot of use for something approximate in the back when made from 440A. Nobody had told me it wouldn't work and it worked great. Excellent adventures were had.
 
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