history re-written - Buck 110 fought in WWII Europe !

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I'm away on business, and last night caught what looked like a TV movie named "Silent Night" about Nazi and US soldiers holed up together on Christmas Eve in the same German farmhouse. Linda Hamilton played the hausfrau. When the US soldiers arrive, one is wouded, and the sergeant cuts away his uniform with...of course, a Buck 110, the ubiquitous WWII soldier's best friend. :eek: :rolleyes:

From the Buck website:
"In 1963, Al Buck designed the Model 110 Folding Hunter, and when it was brought to the market in 1964; this lockblade literally revolutionized the knife industry."

I really hate when movie producers don't do their homework on something as simple as that. I mean, all the people involved in production and filming on the set, nobody has the guts to raise heir hand and say "uhhh, folks, I don't think that's a "period piece" of equipment there". They may as well give the soldiers M16's instead of M1's.
 
I have a 110 my grandaddy took off a dead German officer! Are you callin' ma grandaddy a liar?????

Just kidding, that ranks up there with civil war movies with guys carrying 1873 Colt revolvers or my personal favorite, movies set in the 1880's with Cavalry troops charging into battle with a 50 star flag!
 
They should have called Dale Dye for tech support. He would not have made such a mistake.
 
The Last Confederate said:
I have a 110 my grandaddy took off a dead German officer! Are you callin' ma grandaddy a liar?????

Just kidding, that ranks up there with civil war movies with guys carrying 1873 Colt revolvers or my personal favorite, movies set in the 1880's with Cavalry troops charging into battle with a 50 star flag!
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You mean like the "Duke" in the movie with Rock Hudson heading down to Mexico at the end of the War of Northern aggression and the have Colt peacemakers and Winchester rifles???

Yeah, that fantacy movie land out in Kalifonia gets it a bit mixed up on occasion.
 
jackknife said:
You mean like the "Duke" in the movie with Rock Hudson heading down to Mexico at the end of the War of Northern aggression and the have Colt peacemakers and Winchester rifles???

Yeah, that fantacy movie land out in Kalifonia gets it a bit mixed up on occasion.
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Yeah that's a classic screwup. I caught another example of my favorite pet peeve again last night, on the final episode of teh new Little House On The Praire, the father, edwards and laura rode into a camp to file a land claim and rode right past a 50 star flag hanging on a pole.
 
The Buck 110 is a silly error, but I still thought Silent Night was a pretty good film. Weren't there any knives similar to the Buck 110 in WWII? If so you could just pretend it was one of those... :)

-Bob
 
The Last Confederate said:
I have a 110 my grandaddy took off a dead German officer! Are you callin' ma grandaddy a liar?????
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Bob W said:
The Buck 110 is a silly error, but I still thought Silent Night was a pretty good film. Weren't there any knives similar to the Buck 110 in WWII? If so you could just pretend it was one of those... :)

-Bob
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Yes my Friends, there were similar designs in years past. The locking action on the back of the blade was used on a design back as late as 1920 to 1930 or so. There are records of locking folders back as far as 1880’s.
While it is not possible for a Buck brand lock back folding hunter #110 to have been used, it is not incorrect to have a lock back blade folding knife used in WW2.
 
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