buck vantage?

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how are the buck vantage knives? worth getting? i heard they had some blade centering issues?
 
I love em. Centering was a 1st year production issue-dont think its much of a problem anymore.
 
Legenda, just do a search for Vantage and you will find dozens of threads about the subject. :)

It's one that's been beaten to death here.
 
I have a large and small Select. Blades are perfectly centered, and there are no problems with them. Both very nice, and very affordable. 2011 date stamps.
 
I have every Vantage except the new desert colors but they are on the hit list as well. If you can't tell, saying I like them would be an under statement...
 
My Force Select Marine olive drab is a notch shy of perfect, centered, incredibly sharp. Buck got this one in a proper format at a good price. I like it.

-sevensix
 
I have several Vantages, and I've given some as gifts.

I have a daily user (Avid) that isn't perfectly centered, but opens sure and certain, locks up well, and cuts like the dickens.

I have a couple of PaperStone handled Select models. They both have handle blems (sold as blemished), but the blades are solid, centered, and smooth.

I have another Avid that's centered and solid.

I have returned a single Vantage, a small Select, because it was too hard for my arthritic fingers to open easily. I traded up from the small to a large -- an excellent copy -- and gave that to my son.

I have an unfair advantage, I suppose, because I've never had to order one by mail. I've either gotten to pick one from stock in a store or at the retail counter at Buck's factory. It's easy to pick the perfect ones when you have several in front of you.


However, mail order or not, if you don't like the way it is when it gets to you, Buck will make it right.

 
I have a Buck Vantage and it's a pretty nice knife, but it's really not for me I'm trying to trade it on here.
 
I have a few of them in different variations and all but one were fine. The first year out I had to fidget with the aforementioned centering. All good now.
 
I have a Vantage Pro and my spyderco and the Zt are now in the back seat. It is a GREAT knife!!!!!!!
 
In addition to the earlier post I have purchased the desert colored Vantages and love them. I don't like the matte finish on them but the knives are great all the same. Also I recently got a custom Vantage made by JAG Knives. Jered made the custom carbon fiber scales, nice work. They are shown in a previous Vantage thread.
 
CalBearTactical said:
does Wal Mart sell the Vantage ?
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Nah. Not so far as I've seen. We have a bunch of WallyWorld stores up here, and I've just not seen a Vantage in any of them.

On the other hand, virtually every sporting goods store up here has them.

It could just be a regional thing, but I'd bet there's a retailer in your area that has them, even if it's not Wally.

 
Plumberdv said:
Some do, or at least they did for awhile. There was the Select model with Dymondwood handles for one.
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Yep there were those and if you can still find it, there was a black paperstone model they had. Before the wally world here sold them out, they were going for around $15.
 
I'm not a true Buck-o-phile, though I do have a sweet Vantage Force Pro in my pocket, but I always find the different Vantage flavors confusing. When I see a thread like this, I have to remind myself what an avid is, a select, a force, and force pro and so forth. It gets confusing for my shriveled brain.

What I do know is that the more I've had the Force Pro in my pocket, the more I like it. Its fairly thin, but grippy, looks sweet, flips open easily and feels good in the hand. But even the name "Vantage Force Pro" is hard for me.

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My first Buck is the Vantage Pro. It's one of my favorite EDC. It's got great edge retention and carries very discreetly.

@PowerNoodle, your Vantage Force Pro looks really cool.

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No regrets... :)
 
Funny thing. I picked up one of the $19 Walmart Dymondwood Select models a while back. While it was surely a nice knife, well worth the cost, I just couldn't fall in love with it the way everybody else seemed to. That all just recently changed. I went on a 3 week road trip south to Florida and tucked one along in a pack intending for it to be a back up for the 422 I carried horizontally in a nylon sheath. For some reason, I started to use the Vantage about 2 days in. It handled lots of jobs very well. I cut rope and braided fishing line with it, used it as a cook knife and even (verrry carefully) ate off it as a spoon once or twice. I dispatched and cleaned a few fish with it, and enjoyed how easily it cleaned up. I sliced oranges, limes, cheese, and pepperoni with it, and used it in a biker roadhouse where the plastic knife just wasn't adequate for the pulled pork sandwich I ordered. We grilled steaks at my bud's place and I needed it in place of the shovel dull knives that were available. It easily sliced off some fuel line hose my FL buddy was replacing, and he commented on what a sweet blade it was (was stunned when I told him the price for a USA made knife). It discreetly tucked away nicely in jeans and fishing shorts and it was always there as a handy companion on the road. After owning it for a year or so, I finally "get" the hub-bub on the Vantage. Don't doubt there are others in my future.
 
I just received a Vantage Pro and a Vantage Select on Monday. Fit and finish they are great. I called the company I ordered from and asked them to check the blade centering before the ship them to me.
 
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