Busse Stories

Barrabas

Barrabas

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Please forgive my ignorance, I know this has been asked before, but is there a resource available that has a compilation of some of the cool stories related to how Busse have performed in some amazing ways?

For example, heard a story referenced about an EMS worker using one to pry open a car door to save someone.
Or maybe someone else has posted about all the game they skinned out and it would still shave etc.

Just wondering if there is such a compilation, or if any one would like to share a story?

I enjoy a good laugh, (and might be to much to ask - and if so I understand) but hoping to keep it free from "I used mine to open 3 bills yesterday" kind of thing ;).

Thanks,

sp
 
I wish I could tell a great Busse story, but the most severe duty my most-used Busse (an original Custom Shop AD) has done is dress a few suicidal Mourning Doves and cut Viagra tablets in half.
 
Barrabas: Pretty much all the abuse I have put my INFI through has been in fun during normal use or testing. No stories of heroics yet. But I have thrown them, pried with them, chopped with them, dug with them, and probably more. So far INFI is batting a thousand with me. If you click on the "KNIFE-DATA" link in my sig you will see a compilation of short vids of people just having fun with their INFI.

BTW: gret topic. :)
 
I'll leave it for you to find the link and track down the story, but there's one about a straight handled badger that deflected an accidentally discharged bullet and saved a LEO from getting shot.
 
I remember reading somewhere about a guy and his friend who got trapped in a jeep during a rollover while 4 wheeling and had to cut and dig his way out with a Swamp Rat Camp Tramp.
 
Uncle J - my sentiments exactly.

Tykron - that's been my experience as well, have had a blast with all the Busse I've had the pleasure to have, and they have each served me very very well in much the same capacity of what you mentioned.

I guess the one cool story I should have thrown out; a couple of years ago I had a B5 in the woods with me while gathering some fat wood, I found a Huge PineTree that had been hit by lightning and so I decided to try to pry out some of the really resinous stuff out of the trunk - It was my fist Busse so I thought I'd see what it could take, I wedged the tip about 2 inches into one of the cracks and pryed with all I had (I'm not Hercules - but not in bad shape either)- I could not believe how the blade flexed - it looked like at least 30 degrees, and then sprang back to true - needless to say that sinched it for me as the knives I wanted to own more of. Up until then I was pleased with the ergos , how it sharpened, but I knew then I could use it hard - and this was no hype.

It also became crystal clear to me why these bad boys have such a killer guarantee.

Great blades :thumbup:

Been grabbing them when I could ever since.
 
I have used mine(an SHBM) to cut rope, metal bands, pry wood crates open, dug holes in thick wet clay. I have also used them to cut many cords of wood to stay warm in the winter. Pretty much nothing I haven't done with my SHBM.

One of the more memorable stories is once on an excursion for several days. I usually hide my SHBM where the water bladder goes in my medium pack. It fits perfectly and you would never know it's there and I even forget it's there myself such as in this case. Anyway, on this excursion, there was supposed to be some boxed dry goods waiting for us at a rest stop. Everyone carries some sort of SAK or clipped folder. We get to our rest stop and there it is in all it's glory. Dry and canned food in a box...errr....1/2 inch thick wood crate...with slotted screws..WTF? One guy pulled out his sak and started to unscrew the screws, but no leverage and a stripped screw later, nothing. Someone else tried prying with a clipit folder...snap! Someone asked if anyone brought a hatchet and that is when I remembered what I might have. I took my pack off and checked, sure enough there it was, one of my trusty SHBM's. A few minutes later I had the crate in pieces. There are more stories..but.....;)
 
No major cool here, but right after I got my first, a SHSHII, I was building a deck from pressure treated wood.

Was cutting pieces out of 2x4's so they would overlap the deck edge.

Rough cut them with a powersaw, then used the SHSH to smooth out the cuts, batonning across grain as well as with.

Did 20 or so, plus some other trim/baton work.

At the end of the day, my brother-in-law asked how I planned to resharpen the edge.

I took it, and shaved my arm, and said "Probably won't".

There was at least one Red Cross first responder who had hers at Ground Zero, and used hers to pry open doors on vehicles and in buildings.

She was at Blade 2003, but got away before we could find somehting to write her story down in detail.
 
The SHBA LEO whose life was saved is a good friend. He received the Badger from me as a birthday present with an Okuden sheath.

The shooting was a "live" dynamic entry training excercise with his departmental tactical team that will not be named. He was wearing the SHBA Okuden "John Wayne style" inverted on a tac vest. He was shot at point blank range by a 40 cal. The sheath shattered into about five pieces as I recall. The bullet quite efficiently removed the smooth coating (coating at the time on all Busse's) but failed to even dent the SHBA. The outer perimeter of the POI circle borders the spine. One more inch laterally, and it wouldn't have been pretty. Don't recall if they were wearing armor. He doesn't like to speak of the incident much, but will ask if I can get a picture and if successful, share it with you.

Jerry did not use the story to his benefit in any advertising (all class).

Likewise stories of Busse's actually saving peoples lives from "situations" we will probably never know. But it would be doubtful any could top that one.

As one might imagine, his SHBA is his favorite blade.

Out.
 
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