Has your Buck left its mark?

[TAH]

One afternoon in the summer of 1974, I was 13 years old and bowhunting for one of the most dangerous and cunning animals on the North American continent.....the chipmunk. After missing my mark several times, I pulled the last arrow from the quiver and noticed that the plastic nock was missing. Well, trying to be resourceful, I decided to take my knife and cut a new nock into the end of the wooden arrow. When I began to cut down on the arrow, the blade, you know the one that's "famous for holding an edge", was so sharp that in instantly sliced through the wooden shaft and cut my left index finger all the way to the bone. It was so deep that I had to get 4 or 5 stitches. The knife I was using was my Buck 105 Pathfinder that my grandfather had bought me a few months earlier. It was my first real sheath knife.

Twenty eight years later, I still have the scar on my finger and the Buck 105 that I still use in the field and around the house.

 

[Tightwad]

Ah yes, the battle scars of a beginner. We all have them.
I think of mine as a badge of learning how to handle a knife
the right way

 

[folsom]

Well, if that's true, I hope I advance frombeginner someday...

I've constantly got small cuts or nicks in my fingers. Today from sharpening a 110 that had been used to cut sheetrock...

 

[Russell Payne]

As recent as today. I was having my last cup of coffee getting ready for church and decided I needed to cut something real fast. I grabbed the old 301 that was sitting on the end table and opened the sheepfoot blade. As I was cutting I thought, "I need to be careful and not let the blade cut through into my thumb." Well, you guessed it. The thought had not cleared my mind when I felt this tingling sensation in my thumb. I felt like the little guy on the Gieco ad on TV, "we all do dumb things." Those Buck knives do hold an edge just ask my thumb.

 

[Joe Houser]

I'm not exactly sure i want to go there! Too many, too often. I count my blessings that i still have 9 and 3/4 fingers!