how/why did you get your first 110?

110 Dave

110 Dave

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howdy youa'l!
ok I am going to give away another buck knife of some kind

what I am looking for is your story of
how you got your first one ten!
was it a gift,
or did you buy it ?
if you bought it why did you buy it ?
did you like it right away .. do you still use one ...
how did / do you use your 110?
any crazy true story of you and your folding hunter also might be used
please all entries must be true stories of you and your 110 ... 560 ... 426... what ever a 110 blade will fit in to !
winner chosen at random by some sweet girl ...
if'n there be a lot of stories two knives might be given away...

edit 3/5= ok I and some others recall loosing a buck 110
so if you have a true story of loosing your 110 or looseing it and finding it again
please tell that one also!!
and hay any true story of you and your 110 is welcome
I and others would really like to hear
any story of how a 110 saved the day :):thumbup:

edit 3/5 and again any thing a 110 blade will fit in or that the blade will fit in 110 frame is considered here as a 110
this includes the buck lite 426 560 186 the goliath the new buck lites 486 ect
any thing that a 110 blade will go in to or any blade that will go in to a 110 frame
and yes I will consider any 110 style knife that has after market changes long as it is a Buck Blade ;)


entering is acknowledging that your story may be used in my book
with out compensation ...
yea that's right ... you submit it for only the joy of that your story might be used in the book
 
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Cool Dave, Thanks for the opportunity!


Having owned a 119 and a Crosslock 2 blade, I never really "needed' a 110.

When the First Elk shed I found broke, ( because we had just hung too many Canadian Winter Jackets on it), I was disappointed , but looked to find some sort of craft to use it with. Turns out the Buck 110 was on sale at our local hardware store I thought the 110 was the perfect candidate to get some Elk antler handles. That was the first 110 I ever Customized, and have fell in love with the knife since.
 
I have two 110's. Growing up I carried a buck 110 knock-off a few months until I saved up for the real thing. Several years later, I wanted a good knife for all around tasks and whittling. That's when I purchased a second 110. While my "original" 110 from my childhood is preserved, I continue to use the other one. I have dropped my 110, scratched its blade, and have sharpened it several times. The 110 is the knife that ages with you due to the softness of the brass handles, which have rounded up nicely after years in my pocket. I have carried my 110 in its leather sheath until the sheath warped and rotted. I have also carried it loose in my pocket. You never forget that it's in your pocket due to the weight. The 110 is also the only knife that has ever left blue marks on my hands (from the brass handles) after long periods of use. Out of all the knives I have ever owned, the 110's the one that I have gotten ten times my moneys worth out of.
 
I purchased my first 110 along with a 103 in 1967 while I was in school in Denver, CO. I had been looking to purchase a 110 and when a classmate from San Diego told me he would sell it to me for $5.00 I jumped on it. I paid a total of $10.00 for both knifes. I have used the 110 off and on since then and I still use it today. Since I have other buck knifes I use them all in rotation. I edc all of my folding Buck Knifes. I only edc the fixed blade Bucks during hunting season. (Alas, not much of the hunts any more.)
 
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I grew up with Schrade knives as they were a lot more affordable than Bucks in my area. I had a 7OT for many years which is the same size as a 110. As time went by I decided I should buy a 110. One lead to another and I now have about 6 or so, I have 1 with no dots, 3 with 2 dots and a couple newer ones. One of my 2 dots is wearing some elk scales that was added by JAG custom knives and I use it quite a bit.
 
I got into bucks knife because my dad carried what appeared to a bucks knife for years. I never verified if it in fact was a buck knife thought. Just assumed it was. My dad lost the knife before i could check. So on my 25 birthday I bought a knife that looked very similar to the 110, but wasn't. This knife looked so much like a 110 a couple friends thought it was. I carried that knife for about 8 years. When I stumbled across the bucks website. Turns out the knife I had wasnt a buck. I had used the non buck knife while helping a friend moved. It was my e.d.c knife. And some how that knife disappeared during the move. So in October of 2013. I finally order my first official bucks 110. I got a costume made 110. I ordered an asian water buffalo (smooth) handled knife. With silver blosters and rivets. I love it. Not quite what my father use carried but I made my own knife. My dad actually like my asian water buffalo. Which i think is cool since its partly because of him I carry around a knife.
 
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cool stories ! so far I like all them!
it is my plan to put these stories here and there through out the book
I will be using your "site nick name" from here but if you wish me not to jest say so ...

UNLESS you would like your real/true name used if you have a business
such as say JAG custom knives might ... in which case let me know what to use in a PM or email !
hay it would be free advertising and yes I will be using jag's post ..
this is the only post that I will admit I will be using...
OH BTW -
I ran a contest ( more then one) a good while back so I might be using some of those stories as well ...
and I would like any one that posted in those past contests to re post their story here
yes a second chance to win with the same story!!!
so no one has to go look them up to enjoy them !!!!

so I will be telling my story of my own 110's a bit at a time ...
I bought my first folding hunter in 1967 or 68?
it got "lost" as I later learned many buck 110s do ...
more on my story later ....
 
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I had been carrying a 500 for years that I had received as a Christmas gift from my mom. I still remember parking up hill at a friends house to drop something off and heard a noise when I got out of my truck. I looked around but didnt see anything and continued my quest. Once I got to work I realized my Duke was not in my pocket and the realization came that it slid out of my pocket, hit the ground and slid under the truck where I didnt see it. I was sick to my stomach. I called for them to check and see if it was on the road but no answer. I went back after work to look for it but no luck.:barf: I went home dejected and told my wife and started looking on the bay to replace it. I found one and ordered it up. Before it came in the mail, my wife presented me with a gift, thinking it was the same knife I lost. Turns out it was a 100th anniv 110. I was happy and thankful but it wasnt a Duke(kept that to myself of course). I thought the 110 was too big to carry. Wow was I wrong, though in my heart the 500 is still my favorite Buck. I rotated the two as edcs but soon found I carried the 110 way more than half the time and used the heck out of it. That was 2002, now 14 years later, I have over 30 110s and 3 500's and carry a 2 dot 90% of the time. Love the 110!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thanks again Dave
 
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Well here is my story Dave (I will try to keep it short). I wasn't raised as a hunter. My father didn't hunt or any relatives and to be honest not being exposed to hunting at a young age I didn't think about it. At about age 20 my sister was dating the youngest brother of a family who were huge hunters (5 brothers and two sisters). I knew the brothers because we all went to high school together and played ball together. The oldest brother was a bit older than the rest of us and had his own roofing company. I started working with them one summer. Now for the knife part. That fall as they prepared for opening day of deer season in the Adirondack Mts of NY. they invited me. I had no gear what so ever. The one brother that I hung with the most said I could use one of his rifles. So off we went the night before, me with no clue and a borrowed rifle. There was five of us including me. One of the participants was their uncle who was well off and owned several businesses. Early the next morning as we prepared to leave their uncle saw I didn't have a knife and handed me a 110 and said I could use it. Three days later as we packed up to leave the cabin I handed him back his knife and thanked him. He said keep it and use it wisely. Over the years I have bought many other buck knives but I still have the 110 ( a 2 dot) and still carry it every hunting season and use it anytime I dress out a deer or any other critter. Epilogue: My sister broke up with the one brother, I still hunted with them for few more years but still cherish that knife and am grateful for that knife. I will give it to my son on his first opening day.
 
I got my first 110, from my dad, in the late 80's, when I started hunting. At that time, my dad hunted both Ohio and Pennsylvania. While walking through the woods, in PA., he came across a gut pile from another hunter. When he went over to investigate there was my some to be 110 stuck in a log by the pile. It's a two line inverted stamp model. To this day I never go deer hunting without that knife. Researching the history of my knife and that stamp lead me to the BCCI, this forum, and collecting Buck knives most of which are 110's.
 
We never had a lot of extra money growing up. Both my parents worked hard and pretty much put it all into the household. They had four kids to raise all with different interests. I was the one who liked the outdoors and hunting. In the 90's a buddy and I used to to hunt small game with our pellet rifles in the woods behind his house. I carried a Bucklite, he carried a 110. I wanted that knife in the worst way. The bolsters were tarnished, the blade was wore down and the scales were banged up. It was a thing of beauty. I came home and told my Dad what a cool knife it was and how I wanted one. I described the knife in all its glory and mentioned it had two dots on either side of the blade. I had no idea what they meant and neither did he. My Father was always a Buck knives fan and was the reason I purchased my first model 422 when I was ten. Buck was always the choice knife whenever we discussed what we wanted for Christmas or drooled over in the Catalogs. Like I say my parents never had a lot of extra money and my Dad never spent a dime on himself. I bought that old knife from my friend for $25.00 and gave it to my Dad.

It was the first 110 I ever bought and owned it for at least 3 hours. It was the first Buck knife my Dad ever owned and he loves it to this day.

Buck did one heck of a job at the spa
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Dont ask me how, but leave it up to a 250 pound Lumberjack to bend the blade
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hello, well for me it was the Duke Boys. I grew up in the late 70's, early 80's and loved the dukes of hazzard. I remember seeing them wear their 110's in the leather sheaths and I wanted one so bad... I actually had (all I could afford) to get the knock of pakistani made folder and that did not cut it so I saved and saved and got myself a genuine 110, probably 1979 ish..
one of my first memories of having my "real" buck was sitting in our kitchen near the window when it was snowing out and I was just holding it, admiring the quality etc, watching it snow and for some reason I can remember Kenny Rogers song in the background, The Gambler was on.. such vivid memories of that scene..
Then somewhere years later the knife got lost or stolen... thats my story...not too exciting but some of the best memories I had..
 
110 Dave im curious, what type of book are you writing? Will it readily available? This project sounds interesting.
 
I carried a Bucklite 422 for years, it was my first real knife. Around 2004 it was stolen. Reading up on knives, I discovered how Iconic the 110 hunter was and picked one up at Wal-Mart in a gift tin around 2004. I had a hard time warming up to the 110 and kept going back to the 422 or 112 size knives, but every so often I would carry the 110. In December of this year, my wife bought me a 110 ecolite and either that or the regular 2004 110 hunter has been in my pocket. I'm finding that after carrying the paperstone Hunter, the size of the 110 is fine in my pocket. I've always been a fan of the 112 clip blade, but after carrying the 110, I'm finding I prefer the larger clip of the 110. It has taken me almost 10 years to warm up to the 110, now I don't know how or why I didn't carry this knife all along. It took getting used to, but I now have no problem edc-ing a 110 in my front pocket. I figure my cell phone weighs more than my 110(phones seem to be getting bigger rather than smaller) and my knife is just as important of a tool than my phone if not more so if I was stranded or something.
 
Dave, here is my story (not exactly what you are after I'm afraid). I've been a Buck guy since the late 1960's (still have my first, a 1970 301). Twice I set out to buy a Buck 110 but didn't get one; first time was with my buddy Bobby, a fellow 2LT at the Ordnance Officers Basic Course in APG MD - we had our first big field training exercise coming up at the Ordnance School and we wanted to carry field knives, so we went to the PX at APG to look for some. Bobby picked out a 110 right away - I opened one up but thought it was way too "blocky", the edge was not rounded enough to feel comfortable to me. I bought a Buck 105 instead, I still have it today. The second time was at a gunshop in Kinston NC circa 1980 - I was handling a Buck 110 with the idea of buying it, but expressed the same sentiment about the bulk - the gun dealer showed me his new line of Gerber's and I bought a Sportsman II. A few years back I was in another gun shop, this one in Benson NC when I spied a Buck 110 in a tin; it was the 2005 Commemorative set - I noticed the edges looked nicely rounded and I bought the knife after handling it. I have since gone back and bought several older "blocky" 110 and 112 lockback folders, but I think Buck really got it right once they started with the rounded edges. OH
 
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110 Dave im curious, what type of book are you writing? Will it readily available? This project sounds interesting.
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well.. I had thought of a web site on the 110 or buck's in general but did not move on it fast enught to get the web name I wanted
but I keep collecting information on the 110 ... well folks asked a lot of detailed information but it was general info I wanted to make known.
this started out as a story for the bcci news letter on the 110 and kind of grew from there when
at the 25 I talked with several who encouraged me to make it a book
while there is a lot of information on the 110 most of it is highly detailed for the
advanced collector which most folks are not ..
I have over 350 110's most are gold etch which many have not seen
heck there are many I have not seen as yet!
but I relised there was not a book's worth of information on the 110
I mean... think about it lots of highly detailed information but not for the newbie or novice
when folks post here about a knife it is pictures, pictures and when any one is still confused
more pictures ...

so ... I now have a photographer lined up to do pro shots of my knives
and asking for any images of knives I do not have ...
and I will be asking after market customizers to submit images of their fav 110's
for a chapter on the life of 110s after they leave the factory..
and as this thread states
I will be putting in short stories of 110 owners. .and will include some of my own ...

when ? I don't have a clue! when the shed juice runs out I guess...
 
While this is not a great story, its the only one I got.

I grew up always getting cheap made in Pakistan 110 clones from the Flea Market with my dad. I always loved the styling, but never had a true Buck knife. Lately I have been trying to get back to my roots and get more traditional in my knife selection. I have been wanting to pick up a 110 for a couple of months, but for some odd reason I never pulled the trigger (probably lack of funds had something to do with it). Finally I was able to work out an online trade for a user 110 and get rid of one of my "tacticool" knives in the bargain. Cool deal. Now I am just waiting....

So on the very same day that I mailed off my end of the trade, I wander into a big box sporting goods store to browse while my wife and kid were shopping at the toy store. As is often the case, I first went to the knife section. Some ho hum selections until I noticed the 110. Then to my surprise they had three 2012 model Boone and Crockett 110s. The first one on the rack had three different prices attached so I asked the only employee I could wrangle up to check the price and he said that today that knife was $30!

Well, needless to say I bought that darn thing and risked my wife's wrath. To her credit as a fine lady, she agreed that the deal was too good to pass up. She even said I could go back and get another one for my dad. Awesome. Well when I tried to grab my second one, it rang up as $40. Even brought in my receipt. The manager guy double checked the receipt and the numbers and we went back to the display and for some odd reason the first one I got was the only one different and cheaper than the rest. They all looked the same to me, but the SKU number was different for heaven only knows why. Even he was baffled. I was just happy to get the one I got for $30. So now after 37 years on this planet without a Buck 110 I now have one in hand and one on the way.

By the way, the B&C 110 lives up to my expectations. It immediately kicked my trusty Spyderco PM2 to the curb and I put it on my belt in the parking lot. Looking forward to many more Bucks in my life.
 
Since I was a boy, I drooled for a buck fixed blade like the woodsman or pathfinder, you know, the one with black scales. Over time I bought a 110. For the autumn 2012 Scout family camping, I just remember my wife has only a small SAK, a purple one with the Scouts logo, and I wondered, why not give her a more appropriate knife? So after some days debating about the new knife for my wife, the 110 was selected.

Today I have two beatiful 110s, yes I know, one is my for ms. Zaper, but I'm the care taker.
 
When I was a boy I had a friend that I squirrel hunted with who had moved to Missouri from California where his dad had been a Police Officer. He had a 110 that his dad gave him that he taken from a criminal during an arrest. I had a small Case stockman. My friend wanted the stockman and I wanted the 110 so we traded.
I carried that knife in my back pocket for the next ten years or so until sadly I lost it. It served me well. I used it for all my outdoors activities as well as my work knife.

Jim
 
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