Buckshot Bone

The Fort

The Fort

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Anyone else really like the Buckshot Bone scales on the Colt knives, but avoid them because they're made in China? They have a couple of patterns that I think look especially good, like the Rail Splitter. The price is reasonable also. Anybody have any opinions on them.
 
I do enjoy the look but i try to avoid China at all cost. The jumbo trapper with wharncliffe blade really caught my eye i just can't pull the trigger on it so to speak.
 
Actually, its ironic in a couple ways for this topic to pop up right now. I have the exact opposite problem that you do; I have no problem with Chinese made knives, but think the handles on these are terrible.

Just last night I was looking at a couple of their patterns that I'd like to try. Ones that I know R. Rider have made before in several materials, but as of now I can only find them in the Colt Buckshot bone... And as I said, I think its one of the Ugliest things I've ever seen on a knife... But I think I will be forced to get it if I want the patterns. :(


I already have a few from Colt, and they're nice. As far as I can tell made by Rough Rider, the same quality build. Usually they're the same patterns as the RR line with different handle materials.
 
I'm with ICE Tigre, don't like the buckshot bone at all. Have several RRs, Colts and Marbles.

ICE Tigre-
You might look at the Marbles folders. Same maker as RR and Colt. I think you would like them.

Rich
 
The Fort said:
Anyone else really like the Buckshot Bone scales on the Colt knives, but avoid them because they're made in China? They have a couple of patterns that I think look especially good, like the Rail Splitter. The price is reasonable also. Anybody have any opinions on them.
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I probably have more knives (Rough Riders, Colts, Marbles, Taylor Brands) from China than from any other country, so apparently I don't care much about where knives (or clothes or cars or food or ...) are made (if you can even be sure about country of origin). I have a couple of buckshot bone knives that I'm quite fond of. (Mine are Colt-branded; Colt seems to have disappeared as a knife brand recently, and the buckshot bone knives now carry a RR stamp. In the past, I'd have claimed that my Colt knives were more solidly-made, were a bit fancier trim, and had "upscale" packaging compared to my Rough Riders, and a Colt model would often cost almost twice a similar RR model.)

I have a canoe (thanks, Gasman, and congrats on how well your male and female Gamecocks basketball teams did! :thumbup:):
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I also have a buckshot bone teardrop that I'd claim is perhaps the best-made knife I own, and that includes comparison to a couple of GECs and several Case folders:
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Both of these knives have bolsters that are "fancier" than I like them, but both also have red "gaskets" that seem like a high-quality feature to me (even if I'm ignorant of their exact purpose :rolleyes:).

I can imagine myself looking for Colts on auction sites now that the brand is no longer used for new production.

- GT
 
5K Qs, thanks for the pics and comments. Now I'm really considering a swayback whittler and the rail splitter.
 
Ice Tigre and Rich S, I appreciate your feedback. It sounds to me like the quality is more than acceptable on the Colts, RRs, etc., even if you don't care for the appearance. Thanks guys!
 
I don't have any of the Buckshot bone models but I've got this "Railsplitter" that I bought in early 2011. The quality is very good. Tight blades with good snap on all of them and good fit & finish throughout. It's a very nice knife and rather beefy for a 3 5/8 inch knife. The beefiness is one of characteristics that I like about the Railsplitter pattern in general.





In my first sentence above I typed quotation marks around the word Railsplitter because I learned that is not the official name of this pattern. In September 2011 I was inside a knife store in Seiverville, Tennessee which as I understand it was owned by the owner of the Colt brand at the time. They had a bunch of Colt knives on display but they didn't have this model so I asked the two clerks working the counter if they had any Colt Railsplitters. They both swore up and down that there is no such pattern in the Colt lineup and there never was.

I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone because not only does every dealer I had ever seen before call this a Railsplitter but I even own one myself. I thought those guys were nuts so when we got back home I checked their website and learned that Colt actually calls this a Rancher Stockman. But everybody else, myself included, calls it a Railsplitter.
 
Great looking knife Rick! I appreciate the extra information, as well. Have you carried and used it? How about sharpening it? Does it take and hold a decent edge?
 
I have a canoe (thanks, Gasman, and congrats on how well your male and female Gamecocks basketball teams did! :thumbup:):

- GT[/QUOTE]


Thank you sir, but to be honest the only basketball I watched this year was the playoffs. The SEC player of the year is from our town and my son played football with him in high school. The Gamecocks did have pretty great basketball seasons.
 
The Fort said:
Great looking knife Rick! I appreciate the extra information, as well. Have you carried and used it? How about sharpening it? Does it take and hold a decent edge?
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Thanks Lance. I did carry the pictured knife for maybe 3 or 4 days when I first got it. I don't remember using it but if I did it wasn't enough to require touching up the edge.

I did carry a Rough Rider Sowbelly for about 5 months. I don't know for sure if the steel is the same but I suspect that is. I did use and sharpen that knife and in my opinion, the steel was very much like Case's Tru-Sharp stainless. Easy to sharpen, got very sharp, and although edge retention wasn't anything extraordinary, it was satisfactory.
 
It looks like an exotic tropic skin disease. Like you've been infested with some sort of parasite.
 
Planterz said:
It looks like an exotic tropic skin disease. Like you've been infested with some sort of parasite.
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Well, yeah, not the ideal cover material for a lady leg knife, but for other patterns it's primo! :D:thumbup:

- GT
 
Planterz said:
It looks like an exotic tropic skin disease. Like you've been infested with some sort of parasite.
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It has a blistered aspect yes.......imagine naming it Herpetic Bone :eek:

I have a single blade (Sabre ground) Gunstock in it. Finish is high, build quality too, steel like RR is good. I just don't like the overdone ornamentation on Colt knives, too much bling and that bone is kind of odd too...:D
 
Railsplitter said:
In my first sentence above I typed quotation marks around the word Railsplitter because I learned that is not the official name of this pattern. In September 2011 I was inside a knife store in Seiverville, Tennessee which as I understand it was owned by the owner of the Colt brand at the time. They had a bunch of Colt knives on display but they didn't have this model so I asked the two clerks working the counter if they had any Colt Railsplitters. They both swore up and down that there is no such pattern in the Colt lineup and there never was.

I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone because not only does every dealer I had ever seen before call this a Railsplitter but I even own one myself. I thought those guys were nuts so when we got back home I checked their website and learned that Colt actually calls this a Rancher Stockman. But everybody else, myself included, calls it a Railsplitter.
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I would have certainly termed that model a Railsplitter. I guess I think of a Railsplitter as a Stockman pattern on steroids.
 
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