Date this "Vietnam Fighting Knife"

pjsjr said:
Oh, h3ll no, search and Google:p
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gotcha. I know David makes mention in posts sometimes of referring to his notes and sometimes fires off the information. so I suspect memorized.

wasnt sure who here was also an encyclopedia of Buck factory knowledge. from sitting here reading seems like you, Roger, TAH, and the rest of regular bunch have y'all brains loaded with the information.:)
 
Being on here is a continuous learning experience. I know I have posted incorrect information if I look at some of my old posts. I'm sure David Martins tongue is chewed to leather from biting it at all the dumb stuff I've posted over the years..... :oops::oops::oops:
 
Sometimes a great knife story makes a knife sell for ridiculous money,all fabricated to suck in a buyer,and it works too much imho.
 
This Buck 105 has the dot after the model number and can be positively dated to June 1966. My cousin Mac bought it at the Camp Lejeune MCX on that date (he dated everything he bought!). He didn’t serve in Vietnam with the USMC but rather fought the Chinese and North Koreans as a Soldier in Korea with the 24th Infantry Division DIVARTY in 1950 (he was a Red Leg). He has passed on now but I do have his knife and a few other mementos of his. OH
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Mac in Korea, MSG, Chief of Smoke.
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Now that is special. Traditionally BUCK* has been assigned to 1967 but I have seen 2 knives (I think both were 120's) with late 66 paperwork. Your knife moves that date back a whole bunch when you consider the date it left the factory is well before the date it was shipped somewhere and sold.

Chief of Smoke? Nick name or? Google found a Sioux chief, Chief Smoke.
 
If somebody claims a knife has been to war--the first thing I look at is the sheath.

The sheath with the knife in question has never been to war.

And things get worse for the story with every other thing you look at.
 
Old Hunter said:
This Buck 105 has the dot after the model number and can be positively dated to June 1966. My cousin Mac bought it at the Camp Lejeune MCX on that date (he dated everything he bought!). He didn’t serve in Vietnam with the USMC but rather fought the Chinese and North Koreans as a Soldier in Korea with the 25th Infantry Division DIVARTY in 1950 (he was a Red Leg). He has passed on now but I do have his knife and a few other mementos of his. OH
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Some of the best posts here are ones like these.
Thanks.
 
DeSotoSky said:
Chief of Smoke? Nick name or?
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Both my cousin Mac and my Dad served in the Field Artillery. The FA of the 1950’s used towed howitzers. Their units had 155mm guns, three to a platoon. Mac was a Platoon Sergeant, in the old days the PSG was the “Chief of Smoke”. My Dad was also later a FA PSG (Chief of Smoke). That is not an official term, but widely used among them and their fellow FA PSG’s in the day. Some say it means you bring Smoke on the enemies ass, others say the PSG is always where the smoke is generated (where the gun is firing). All my older family members were Red Legs (my uncle Fred too) and I grew up around the National Guard Armory where my Dad was the full time Training Sergeant and my Cousin Mac was the Battery Commander, my Uncle Fred was a wireman in the Commo Section. However when I became 17 and joined (1973) the unit had been reorganized into Military Police. I always enjoyed MP’s (and eventually became the battalion commander myself) but would like to have been a Red Leg for part of my career. By the time I went to OCS in 1975 Dad was HHC 1SG, Uncle Fred was out, and Cousin Mac was battalion commander. I just told you a helluva lot more than you really wanted to know! Another thing about us all, we four had all bought Buck Knives at different times over our lives for hunting and ARNG use - never compared or talked about it either - it just worked out that way! OH
 
Old Hunter said:
Both my cousin Mac and my Dad served in the Field Artillery. The FA of the 1950’s used towed howitzers. Their units had 155mm guns, three to a platoon. Mac was a Platoon Sergeant, in the old days the PSG was the “Chief of Smoke”. My Dad was also later a FA PSG (Chief of Smoke). That is not an official term, but widely used among them and their fellow FA PSG’s in the day. Some say it means you bring Smoke on the enemies ass, others say the PSG is always where the smoke is generated (where the gun if firing). All my older family members were Red Legs (my uncle Fred too) and I grew up around the National Guard Armory where my Dad was the full time Training Sergeant and my Cousin Mac was the Battery Commander, my Uncle Fred was a wireman in the Commo Section. However when I became 17 and joined (1973) the unit had been reorganized into Military Police. I always enjoyed MP’s (and eventually became the battalion commander myself) but would like to have been a Red Leg for part of my career. By the time I went to OCS in 1975 Dad was HHC 1SG, Uncle Fred was out, and Cousin Mac was battalion commander. I just told you a helluva lot more than you really wanted to know! Another thing about us all, we four had all bought Buck Knives at different times over our lives for hunting and ARNG use - never compared or talked about it either - it just worked out that way! OH
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Wonderful explanation! Thank you 👍
 
Found a picture of Mac (left) and Dad (center) and the First Sergeant outside the Armory from 1961. I was six or seven in those days and loved to explore the Armory, especially the supply room with its lines of helmets, rifles (in racks) and bayonets. OH
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