how/why did you get your first 110?

my very first folding hunter I dropped from on top of a pole
I went to come down to get it and the lead man said get back up there tell I was finished
I said I dropped my knife would he get it for me
I come down and asked him for it and he said he did not find it ...
I looked and looked but to no avail
last day was fri
called by boss on mon to come back tues & wed - school started turs.
low and behold the lead had a 110 but NO sheath !!!!
I asked if he had found mine and he said he got it at a yard sale!!

oh well ...
 
I saw my first 110 at a stockyard near where I lived at the time, the man I was with owned a heard of prize herfords. some man pulled one out and I remember telling james, the man I was there with that was a nice knife. the owner sliced rope with ease. james told me to go over and ask him where he got it and what it was. I did and he told me where he got it, so we went by there on the way home and he bought two 110's one for him and one for me. I still have mine and his as well, he was killed in a break in many years ago and his oldest sister gave me his 110, I don't think he ever used it for more than carrying at times. i'll never forget him though I took care of his cattle for as long as I care to remember. he always carried silver dollars and jingled them in his pocket, asked him once why he did that and he said " I just like the sound of silver". anyway that was my first 110 and I still remember and have it.
 
When I bought my first Harley it was part of the latest in biker fashion to have a wallet with a chain hanging from it hooked to a belt loop and a knife in a sheath hanging on your belt. I remember my late Father taking me to the local Bait and Tackle store that one of his Buddies owned to buy some minnows and worms for a day of fishing the upper Niagara river near Grand Island. While we were looking around for some new jig heads and split shot I saw they had a sale going on for the Buck 110. The price was fair so I figured I'd finally get that required sheath knife to complete my "Biker Uniform". While I was at the register paying for everything my Father walked up and said "Here buy two of these they will be worth something someday" So I left there with two brand new Buck 110's the Holy grail of Biker knives. I was on cloud nine. Anyway moving forward I used one and on my Father's advice I put the other away. As it worked out I never ruined or lost the first one so the second one is still in it's original box. Last year I sent the user into the Buck spa for a clean up and to tighten a little blade wobble. Here's a picture of them as they are today. My pair of 2 dot 110's and my memory of a day with my Dad. Thank you for the reason to go down memory lane.

 
My dad gave my my 110 when I was in high school. Back then, it wasn't a big deal to have a knife at school, so I carried it at school quite often. When I got bored in class, I was known to quietly take out a knife and whittle on pencils. I'd ask one of my friends if I could borrow a pencil, then at the end of class they had a nicely carved pencil. They liked them because if they lent them out to other friends, it was easy for them to get it back since they looked different.

Ric
 
I was given mine as a Christmas gift when I was old enough to hunt in Pennsylvania around 40 years ago. My brother and his wife gave it to me. My sister-in-law is from France and wasn't fond of hunting. Her note to me was, "please don't hurt any animals when you use this".
 
I got mine because Bo and Luke Duke had one! Along with every other red neck I knew!
 
Pictured below is my Dad's 110 that my Mom gave him as a gift in the early 70's. He passed away last week. That knife is definitely the beginning of my attraction to Buck Knives. If it could speak, it could tell a lot of good whitetail hunting stories and camping adventures. Many deer and sticks have been "carved" by this knife. He had always told me I could have it when he didn't need it any longer. We found the knife in his car, which was strange because he never kept it in the car. So, I think he put it in his car and was intending on giving it to me soon as he could see what was coming those last couple of days.



Fourth Version Variation 1

Don't consider this as a contest entry, but my post does seem appropriate for this thread.
 
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I bought my 110 in December of 1999. I had a gift card and picked it up during the final phase of the Y2K panic. Since then it's been on every camping trip I've been on and traveled who knows how many miles of hiking trails. I love it. Today I should get an Ecolite 110 in the mail. I plan on trying it out as a replacement, but my standard version is a tough act to follow. We'll see how it goes.
 
wow some great stories here!
I got my first one by mistake ..
I needed a wire skinning knife and having never owned even a pocket slippie bought this one as the
man I was working with said that was a mans knife ... a buck knife
in 1968 I paid I think 6 or 8 $ for it ... I made only 1.75 an hr..
oh well... when the men seen it that evening after work
and all the comments of " now that is a real mans knife" ect it was worth it!!
I still recall standing there beaming with a big case of pride of owner ship over that knife..

and never to this day did I ever not have one close at hand ...
 
My first 110 was my second Buck Knife, and was given to me by my parents at age 12 in 1981.
I had recently lost my first Buck knife, a 500, while snow camping, and they figured a Boy Scout needed a good knife.
I used it as my favorite blade for camping, hunting, fishing and for any other thing I needed a sharp edge, until 1994 when a supposed friend mercilessly pilfered it.
I replaced it with another 110 promptly.
 
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My first 110 was given to me back when I was in junior high (back when they didn't lose their mind when you carried a knife to school. Kept it thru high school and through 8 years in the USAF. Finally gave it to my little brother, and picked up a couple of used ones in the mid eighties...still have both.
 
Until I got my first 110, all my folders had been Imperial, Colonial or Camillus slip joints that had been hand-me-downs from my father or grandfather. My first fixed blade was a Western L46-5 that my grandfather had given me in 1965 (separate story - http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...p=12207173&highlight=grandfather#post12207173 ).

I bought my first 110 in 1973 with some of my high school graduation money. I think it was around $10. I carried that 110 as my EDC for the next 39 years, until I finally broke down and got a lighter locking folder - a Buck 486 Bucklite Max. I still have that well-used 110, along with 5 others that I have accumulated over time, including a 25th Anniversary version.
 
I got my first 110 purely by accident. At the time I was not a knife enthusiast and I had carried a buck knife that was given to me for years, it is a 501 now that I know better.

One year I was looking through a local sporting goods store holiday ad and saw an as for a buck knife that "looked" similar to what I was currently carrying. I told my wife that a new one would be nice and low and behold there is was at xmas, only, a LOT bigger than what I was used to.

So, I ended up with a 110 simply by mistake and it is a great knife and I still have it.
 
wow lots of good stories being told here!!
I really thought the other day of that I should have made it open to ANY 110 story
ugh ... gee ... I can do that still!!!
yowser
any true buck 110 story any one would like to post here ..
by golly jest go ahead and do so as we all would like to read them!!!
 
I bought mine in 1989, at the Base Exchange at Thule AFB in Greenland. I wish I could find it now....
 
Provenance, for My 1974 *110* Was purchased from a man named "TINY" Paul Stacy well know locally and with Newspaper write ups, A 350+ Hippie who's claim to fame was being NEW ENGLANDS HEAVY WEIGHT SKI CHAMPION also a Body Guard & student for the Tibets Dali Lama also was seen in THE WOODSTOCK MOVIE with his Green Ford Econoline Van which had a PLEXI GLASS BUBBLE off a B-24 Bomber mounted on the roof of the van with him peeking his head out the bubble and a HIPPIE FLOWER GIRL. TINY ran a bar called the BLUE PLATE Bar & Grille in Holden MA which was oximoronic it was a REDNECK BAR....where he brought in all sorts of famous music act's all his friends like the HOLY MODEL ROUNDERS who played on the EASY RIDER movie sound track, He was also involved in the EAGLE RESTORATION PROGRAM at the Quabbin Reservoir through out the 1970s in Massachusetts and would host Jack Swedberg and his 8mm films about the Quabbin Eagle Restoration Project that we all loved! it helped raise money for the Eagle Restoration Project 13 pairs nesting to date now! + more locally 9 nest in our town.
Tiny sold me my very first 1974 *110* as I was in a booth awaiting a music act in the Blue Plate Bar & Grille..TINY was helping a friend a BUCK Sales Rep sell them for him, and thats when I fell in love with the whole BUCK *110* & Sheath concept and all my freinds did too! we all wore one.....and we thought they were totally industructable! and tested them to their limits. We mostly spent our weekends out in the woods around campfire's and riding DIRT BIKES.
Our *110*'s were our VERSION OF A MULTI TOOL....LOL believe me! & definitely not your NON-TYPICAL BUCK story.
 
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well well i jest got my pass word back !!! kinda lost it for a while ...
humm seems i need to pay my gold member dues again also!!! wow out of touch ...
sorry for letting this slide for a while but i did get married a short time ago..
she will be coming with me to Atlanta blade show this year also!
ok this contest will close shortly and i will post the winner and a pict of the knife they will get!
 
I always carried a Buck 303 as my EDC while in the Air Force. A few years ago I started collecting 5" folders of various American brands. Of course, that did include a few Buck 110's. I started carrying my 110's at work and was told that the knife was too big. I turned around and bought a 486 and because it wasn't as visible as the large sheath I got away with daily carrying it.
 
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