Hey you newly inducted Hogs!!!

[mckrob]

Rob here, aka mcrob, mcrib, and mccritter...

I've been collecting knives most of my life, but had a bit of a revival whilst working in Norway off and on the past few years, I started buying Norwegian Helle's and have I think acquired one of every model (beautiful practical blades). I stumbled upon Busse's and Swamp Rat's here in the forum earlier this year and picked up a Game Warden from De Opresso Liber, and it's been a minor addiction ever since.

I am a consulting Exploration Geophysicist working in mineral exploration. I love my job; the past 14 years in the field have taken me to some very interesting places all over the globe. The majority of my career has been spent working/living in camps all over the Canadian Arctic, Labrador, Greenland, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Alaska, and South America. My “speciality” is gravity surveying/mapping, which involves measuring minute local changes in the earth's gravitational field to map geological structure. In my spare time I am slowly working towards my MSc degree in Remote Sensing and GIS.

I came to Peru four and a half years ago for a two month job, met a girl, got married, and have been semi-based in here ever since (the work still takes me all over the place much to my wife's chagrin). The past year has found me in a local desk job (yuk!!) at Minera Yancocha, a massive gold mine owned by an American mining company called Newmont (if you punch my signature coordinates into Google Earth and look for the massive pits 20 km N-NW). I am now sitting behind the computer 99% of the time, and although I don’t particularly like not being in the field, this has at least allowed me to come home to the wife every night (a rarity amongst people in my profession) and it has also afforded me the opportunity to take part in BF and specifically the Busse forums.

I look forward to “seeing” you all here in the forums and I hope with your help to substantially grow my collection of INFI !

 

[Tim the Slugman]

Tim,( aka )Tim the slugman (aka) Bogman (aka) Tim the troughman, slugman comes from me building custom slug shooting shotguns. I started out with Swamprat knives 4 years ago & still love my Battlerat & now my Ratmandu! but I was in love with the Battle Mistress from the first one that I saw & I waited 3 years to get A FBM, & it will probably remain my all time favorite blade from now on. I have 2 FBMs & carry my user everywhere I go outside. I have a 15 year old son that some of you know. My loving wife does'nt try to hard to curtail my knife buying. this year was the third year that we have been to the induction dinner. I have made some lifelong friends thru Busse! thanks!

 

[OldPhysics]

I'm Guy, aka resinguy, now aka resinrib. :thumbup: I have been interested in knives for a long time. When I used to do garden and yard work for a lady way back in 8th grade, I bought my first good knife, a Case Sod Buster. Still have it, of course. I gradually acquired a modest, eclectic collection. Old Al Mars, early Spydercos. I was fortunate to find a Randall 1-6 in the display case when I stopped in to see the shop on Orange Blossom Trail, over 25 years ago. I went to gun shows mainly to see interesting knives. Scored a Parrish Survival knife, and a early Bud Nealy Aikuchi that way. Then AG Russell started to feed my need, and I got turned on to the old Bertram Hen and Rooster slip joints. I have more than a few of those pretty little knives. Somewhere along the way, a few years ago I stumbled in to BF, but just lurked occasionally, never registered. I remember visiting the Swamp Rat site when I could have actually bought a Tan Camp Tramp. :grumpy: I don't remember hearing of Busse back then. Last spring I read Cliff Stamp's review of the Ratweiler, and decided to get one. Spent more time here, and finally snagged one from Tyrkon Lawson last Fathers Day. You know the drill, it's been downhill ever since.

You have seen pictures of my wife and daughter here already. To help pay for the INFI addiction, I am a polymer chemist. Our company makes coatings for the inside and outside of food and beverage cans. We make the Frost Brewed Liner for Amy's favorite beverage, see US Patent #4,308,185. I am in the Global Research group, and 'cook' various epoxy, polyester, and acrylic resins for testing.

I am a lapsed cyclist. Ten years and 40# ago, I actually rode the three bikes in my stable.

Amy, may I please have my Milganza Leaner now?

I have always said...wet chemistry is cool.

Why, you can do it at home. Whereas, they will not let me install a particle accelerator, high energy laser, or neutron howitzer in my basement...no matter how nicely I ask!:grumpy:

 

[OldPhysics]

I am a consulting Exploration Geophysicist working in mineral exploration. I love my job; the past 14 years in the field have taken me to some very interesting places all over the globe. The majority of my career has been spent working/living in camps all over the Canadian Arctic, Labrador, Greenland, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, Alaska, and South America. My “speciality” is gravity surveying/mapping, which involves measuring minute local changes in the earth's gravitational field to map geological structure. In my spare time I am slowly working towards my MSc degree in Remote Sensing and GIS.
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Hmmm. Brother, if you ever entirely lose your senses, give me a call. Can always find a use for an MSc in Remote Sensing/GIS up where I work!! Sadly, lots of stress and not nearly as much fun as what you've been doing for a living...

 

[Hogwash]

I have always said...wet chemistry is cool.

Why, you can do it at home. Whereas, they will not let me install a particle accelerator, high energy laser, or neutron howitzer in my basement...no matter how nicely I ask!:grumpy:

The answer is: Don't ask.

 

[Progunner]

I have always said...wet chemistry is cool.

Why, you can do it at home. Whereas, they will not let me install a particle accelerator, high energy laser, or neutron howitzer in my basement...no matter how nicely I ask!:grumpy:

I feel for you Jaime, I really do. What the hell is a neutron howitzer any way?

 

[MORIMOTOM]

I feel for you Jaime, I really do. What the hell is a neutron howitzer any way?

like a hair dryer, only different.

 

[Tony G]

OK….

I’m Tony G. also known as “Ham Francisco”.

I’m late posting here because I was exploring the Yuba River with my girlfriend and her son. The fishing was poor but seeing the grin on a six year-old boy's face when he figures out how to roll cast a fly rod (about 25-30 ft :thumbup: ) was priceless.

I was born in San Francisco, my mom was born in San Francisco, my dad was born here too; and I plan on dying here.

I got my first knife so long ago I can only speculate that it must have been about 43 to 45 years ago, about when I started fishing. And as I think of it I had a gun before that and I still have that gun. About the same time I got a knife and a gun I got a good bicycle. Now I have about 100 knives, seven guns and 12 bikes.

The first “good” knife I had was a Buck Folding Hunter that I used while I was a stage hand for the San Francisco Opera Co. and San Francisco Ballet Co. Of the 100 knives about 75 of them are Busses or Rats.

I have done a lot of things that have enriched my life; here are all I can think of right now:
1. Played golf fairly well – but it doesn’t hit my fun button any more.
2. Fishing and fly fishing
3. Backpacking and hiking
4. Bicycle racing and riding
5. Music….all kinds of music from all over the world; and a system to play it on.
6. Travel
7. Food & Wine & Scotch
8. My two cats and pretty much every animal I ever come across that doesn’t want to eat me.
9. Reading books – about one or two a month (right now Water for Elephants)
10. Taking care of an old family summer home.
11. Photography - film only- sorry I don’t “get” digital. It seems like listening to a symphony on an iPod. It isn’t that the images are not good but it lacks the soul of making an image.
12. collecting knives

I also have a full time job in the area of international tax, specifically transfer pricing of intangibles.

My politics are conservative, so don’t ever try and talk to me about George W. (he isn't one)

My girlfriend wants me to start rock climbing and I tell her that all I need is another hobby.

Busse Knives are the best I have found and that goes for the people that I have met that own them and also those that work for the company. I can see myself here on this forum even if I sold every knife I owned.

Tony G

 

[RedWolfHowlin]

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[Amy-0]

Good Job all of you that have responded....YOUR INFI IS SAFE....


For those who have not...............BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH

 

[Paul S]

So my first question as a newby Busse knife owner: is there a 12 step program for getting rid of this addiction? I've only had one fix, and I can already see the habit forming. Here's my first:

About me:

• Just 23 (But never underestimate)
• Crazy passionate for the outdoors: tracking, survival, and climbing
• I live to learn

Any of you Hogs from around St. Louis MO?

 

[Guyon]

I am a doctoral candidate at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, where I study literacy practices, writing instruction in particular. I'm also interested in narrative theory, socio-cultural theory, and online literacies such as weblogging and gaming. My current work focuses on the valuation of narrative, its reshaping by online technologies, and its place in educational contexts.

Certainly, I identify as a scholar, but I am also a husband, father, son, friend, teacher, reader, writer, outdoorsman, athlete, golfer, carpenter, gardener, and musician. I wear numerous hats, sometimes too many, I think.

Among my jobs never to appear on a curriculum vitae, I have built houses, bagged groceries, hauled hay, picked cotton, and sold beer at Atlanta Braves baseball games. However, I have never dressed up in a bear suit for a waterbed company. A friend always manages to top me with that one.

My druthers? A few things come immediately to mind. My wife's smile and knowing glances. My son's playful grin and high-pitched laughs. Complex ideas and clear prose. Sand under my feet and salt air. Infectious laughter shared with friends. Wild-filled silences of the deep woods. Jack Daniel's single barrel over cracked ice. Long, straight drives and crisp iron shots. Lively, clean bluegrass instrumentals. The scents of libraries, baseball gloves, and sawdust.

That's all you're getting. Oh yeah, I like Busse knives.

 

[Tony G]

It was nice to see you use the education here

...ONCE....

I wish you'd do it more.:thumbup:

I am a doctoral candidate at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, where I study literacy practices, writing instruction in particular. I'm also interested in narrative theory, socio-cultural theory, and online literacies such as weblogging and gaming. My current work focuses on the valuation of narrative, its reshaping by online technologies, and its place in educational contexts.

Certainly, I identify as a scholar, but I am also a husband, father, son, friend, teacher, reader, writer, outdoorsman, athlete, golfer, carpenter, gardener, and musician. I wear numerous hats, sometimes too many, I think.

Among my jobs never to appear on a curriculum vitae, I have built houses, bagged groceries, hauled hay, picked cotton, and sold beer at Atlanta Braves baseball games. However, I have never dressed up in a bear suit for a waterbed company. A friend always manages to top me with that one.

My druthers? A few things come immediately to mind. My wife's smile and knowing glances. My son's playful grin and high-pitched laughs. Complex ideas and clear prose. Sand under my feet and salt air. Infectious laughter shared with friends. Wild-filled silences of the deep woods. Jack Daniel's single barrel over cracked ice. Long, straight drives and crisp iron shots. Lively, clean bluegrass instrumentals. The scents of libraries, baseball gloves, and sawdust.

That's all you're getting. Oh yeah, I like Busse knives.

 

[T.A.C.]

How do I become a newly inducted Hog? I have signed on to Busse & Swamp Rat Forums. Does that make me a member...or is there a seperate induction process? Thanks

 

[Guyon]

How do I become a newly inducted Hog? I have signed on to Busse & Swamp Rat Forums. Does that make me a member...or is there a seperate induction process? Thanks

There's talk of a new system. I think it involves apprenticing under Jaxx for three years and then completing a series of Herculean trials at the trough.

 

[Tony G]

.... then completing a series of Herculean trials at the trough.

One is that you have $15,000 to spend at Blade and then they put you behind Porkybear, Mike H and Raden. If you can still spend $15,000 on knives at Blade in three days you are in:thumbup:

Oh one small thing I forgot to mention the $15,000... you need to bring it yourslef.

Actually this isn't about money or the number of knives it IS about fun:thumbup:

 

[Guyon]

It was nice to see you use the education here

...ONCE....

I wish you'd do it more.:thumbup:

You apparently missed my diagrammatic illustration of Busse time.

 

[OldPhysics]

I feel for you Jaime, I really do. What the hell is a neutron howitzer any way?

Well, if you arrange a highly active neutron source (chunk'a metal) properly, you can get a fairly well-collimated beam of high energy neutrons. If that beam has a fairly low flux (#density per unit time), as they often do, we usually call it a 'howitzer' (remembering old field artillery units).

Hey -- it's great for research, especially when you want to 'activate' a sample (render it radioactive for a brief time)!

The authorities apparently feel this is a danger to the public. Go figure!

[If you remember the Star Wars project, one of its early interests was a neutral particle beam...]

 

[OldPhysics]

like a hair dryer, only different.

I can't say a neutron howitzer will dry your hair.

Likely, all your hair would fall out!

 

[Guyon]

How do I become a newly inducted Hog? I have signed on to Busse & Swamp Rat Forums. Does that make me a member...or is there a seperate induction process? Thanks

A more serious answer, tman999... There is a process, though I'm not entirely sure of all the details. I think there's a nomination from other folks and/or internally from within Busse, and then Jerry and crew make the final determinations. Until this year, you pretty much had to be at Blade to be inducted, but Jerry mentioned something about online induction this time around. That hasn't come to fruition yet.

Mainly, it comes down to the people and the knives. You sort of need to be around a while, get to know the folks who frequent the Busse forum, and share in the comraderie and jokes. It helps if you know your Busse knives and the Busse system and are willing to share that knowledge with others. HOGs have also been known to share actual knives with other well-known members via straight lends or via passarounds so that they can get a feel for the knife before buying. That's the kind of trustworthiness that is common here.

People also tend to develop certain identities around the knives, so when you've been around the forums a lot, you get a sense of who likes what. Gravelface is a chopper man. Eric is all about the variants. Skunk has everything. Don't try to take a SHBM away from Cobalt. Mulder (whom I count as an old-order HOG anyway) has SHBA's and SHSH's that'll knock your socks off. randucci likes those SHSH's too and probably isn't afraid to grind them. Tony G quickly established himself as king of the Game Wardens, much to the delight of folks over at the Scrap Yard forum. Jaxx came in as a power player on several fronts (though he will always be king of the Skeleton Wardens in my mind) and hasn't let up. And so on...

You probably need to to own, have owned, and/or plan to own a portion of the Busse lineup. Though there are a few holdouts whose knives will never see the outside of a safe, folks here also tend to like to see the blades in action, and one popular pastime of HOGs is to use, abuse, and share the experience. See past posts by leatherman (took out a car hood), Cobalt (SHBM throwing and stump abuse), and David Brown (chopped up a Dark Ops knife with an AK ), for instance.

So it's more than just signing up for the boards. Hang around, and you'll get a feel for the forum, and you'll see what I mean. The community around Busse is one of the most diverse and one of the most enjoyable I've found on the web. We have people here from all walks of life and with all sorts of fascinating interests. They all share a love for these knives, and they tend to be a fairly tight-knit group. While I already had a sense of this connection, I experienced it firsthand at Blade this year.

Hey, welcome to Bladeforums, in case no one else has said so. Hope to see you posting some more around here.

Edited to add: Don't let the above material fool you though. When INFI is involved, HOGs can be a treacherous bunch and have been know to connive and manipulate in all sorts of ways in order to score Busse knives for themselves. At the trough, HOGs will trample their own and not think twice. It's expected that you fight your way to the source. Builds character. Just come back at the next Extravaganzaaaa, and you'll see what I mean.