Let's here some Busse Knife Stories!!!

Andy Prisco

Andy Prisco

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Hi All....some of the pleasures of working at my desk include the phone conversations I have with so many folks who tell me how they put their Busse Combat Knives to work, Basics, Combats, and Variants!!!

I have some loaners out now in all the corners of the world that can tell stories of their own, and I know their respective custodians are planning to share some stuff this coming week, but how about the rest of you....MTF carries his around the Bus Station...too cool Mel!!! He even picks up girls with his Busse Combat shirt
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Straightblastpfs (where have you been by the way
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)uses his to persuade his clients
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..just kidding...we miss you man...post something will you?

Mr. Dailey carries his in a vest everyday for simple cutting chores or for threatening me to go have coffee with him...
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Share some thoughts here on this thread for fun...it's always so cool to hear how someone uses their Busse Knife.



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Andy Prisco, Manager
Sharper Instinct, LLC
Phone: 1-201-493-2469
Orders-Toll Free: 1-877-557-5200
Fax: 1-201-493-2039
Visa & Mastercard Accepted

Authorized Dealers:
Busse Combat Knives and Big East Traditional Bows

Professional Shooting Svcs: Corporate Training and Stress Mgmt.

Custom Variant HeadQuarters http://home.earthlink.net/~gregrnamin/andy/sharper.htm

Sharper Instinct Website www.sharperinstinct.com

[This message has been edited by Andy Prisco (edited 08-13-2000).]
 
OK, this is not much, but I have been clearing up some of my bamboo in my yard and using my Basic#7. Wow! this thing whacks off bamboo like it wasn't even there. Nice clean and sharp cuts that have no ragged ends on the standing pieces.

Sorry, can't give my impression on the BM until I receive it from you
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Awaitin my nuclear experience!
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Ron Cassel

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Ron,
Now Thets-A-Noif Shop
Bremerton, Washington
 
A few weeks ago I went home to visit the folks. I had a little contest with my momma- who could clear saplings and brush faster: momma with a saw or Derrick with a Steel Heart II?

Needless to say, we can now add momma to the list of Busse fans. Her only complaint came later in the kitchen: "not good for chopping onions. Go get me my paring knife and fetch me another beer."

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I just got back home. Of course my Mean Street was with me in my travel bag.

As soon as I got to the house I took off to the barn to feed & gather some eggs. I took "The Melvin Project" with me. (9" BM/Bolo type Variant) As I was walking up the path through a wooded area I took a swing at a dead limb. My first reaction was "What?". I know the limb fell but when did the blade actually make contact? So I started whacking at a few other small dead limbs. The best description I can think of is "effortless." Somehow Jerry obtained psychic powers and made this knife to match my chopping stroke. I whacked away a various limbs and dead trees with ease. I tested the edge, and as expected, still shaving sharp. I have a few trees growing up on the power line that need to meet this baby. It is amazing how easy it is to swing and chop with this knife.

When I got back down from the barn, I took my new 7" clip point straight Steel Heart variant out to some low hanging cedar limbs and gave then a few whacks. This one has enough heft in the blade to do the job and would be ideal for spilting firewood at a camp site. Remembering my first conversation with Andy about this variant, I gripped it by the blade and chunked it at a cedar tree from about eight feet. The tip stuck in the truck with a solid "thunk", sinking in about an inch. I am not a knife thrower, but I think this one has enough balance if someone practiced with it. I am still of the opinion that I have now obtained the perfect knife.

When I came back in the house I laid all three Busse Variants out on a table by the computer. I went after some water and upon returning I saw one of my female cats nuzzled up next to the E-handled one. That is when I realized what the secret ingredient is in INFI steel, pheromones. I remembered that just as my two new knives were being delivered these two (2) women coming up to me asking, "Why haven't you called?" It has got to be the INFI.

I know several are waiting for thier knives, but I, for one, believe they are worth the wait.

Yours in Nuclear Pheromones, Melvin
 
Man, out of the loop for too long. Hope all is well with each of you.

Andy, several years ago I was in the woods near home, scouting for deer season, just taking it easy. Meet up with a dog that was crazy as hell. It starts to get serious, ears straight back, teeth showing [and that was just me!
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Sadly, as I am a dog lover supreme, this thing needs shot, fast. Why the 45 was at home, I have no idea. The Battle Mistress though, always there. Split the skull like cord wood, although that range with a feral dog is damned frightening. I honestly believe that day would have been the end of me had I not had the knife with me. Thank goodness it was not a kid playing in the woods that met up with this thing.

Good to be back, keep up the good work.

Bruce
 
Straightblastpfs: Which side of the blade did you use? I'm sure either would work, but I was just curious. Jeff
 
I am a fairly big fellow and that comes in handy sometimes. And a general rule is that big guys wear big pants, and big pants have big pockets. I am able to carry either my mean street or my Badger in my side pocket without anyone knowing. When I go to the city I usually have one in each pocket. Well I just got a new truck and there was this stinkin tree whose limbs where hanging over the drive way. And I just new they were waiting to scratch up the top of my new truck I got a week ago. So one day while riding up the drive I had my Mean street in my pocket. Jumped out and laid into the side of that tree. well even though the MS is small... lets just say the side of that tree is going to be bald for a few years to come. tough little knife and holds a damn good edge. Even with it being a Symm model.

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To All...my apologies for the mis-spelling in the title of this thread...started it late at night and was just informed of my error by your friend and mine, MikeD60...you know, they guy who told everyone about the glass door I walked into at his favorite restaurant!!!
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Andy Prisco, Manager
Sharper Instinct, LLC
Phone: 1-201-493-2469
Orders-Toll Free: 1-877-557-5200
Fax: 1-201-493-2039
Visa & Mastercard Accepted

Authorized Dealers:
Busse Combat Knives and Big East Traditional Bows

Professional Shooting Svcs: Corporate Training and Stress Mgmt.

Custom Variant HeadQuarters http://home.earthlink.net/~gregrnamin/andy/sharper.htm

Sharper Instinct Website www.sharperinstinct.com
 
I don't think anyone can top this one.
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We had a small party for a co-worker who was leaving the firm. We had an ice cream cake for her, but didn't have a knife to cut it with. No problem! I whipped out my Battle Mistress and cut the cake with it. Funny thing was that no one was surprised I had it. They expected nothing less from the resident knifenut.
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-Greg

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My BM (sometimes my BA)rides in a daypack when my wife and I ski the backcountry. The pack also includes a survival kit complete with signalling devices. There is also room for extra insulation, jacket, etc
It has been a tough summer for us living next to national forests in the highcountry (9500ft). Just yesterday two fires started minutes away from our house (dry lightning)We are lucky to have a badass fire dept that never sleeps!!!
The same pack (with the BM) I ski with is now by the bed! Just in case a fire drives us out with very short notice!

Waiting for INFInite snow to fall and cover us all.


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I used my Apache Thrower to kill a Wild Boar...no dice...bounced off his head
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I might do a streaming video of it at the website...

The press on the hunt however elevated me to new heights in the annals of knifethrowing
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"...Oh....you're that guy who did WHAT? Wow...it's nice to meet you Andy...I think that's the most hysterical thing I ever heard..."

Now, I just imagine the boar when throwing at my wood target
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If I go to Africa next year, I expect to try it on a Warthog with Aubrey next to me with his 375 just in case...
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Andy Prisco, Manager
Sharper Instinct, LLC
Phone: 1-201-493-2469
Orders-Toll Free: 1-877-557-5200
Fax: 1-201-493-2039
Visa & Mastercard Accepted

Authorized Dealers:
Busse Combat Knives and Big East Traditional Bows

Professional Shooting Svcs: Corporate Training and Stress Mgmt.

Custom Variant HeadQuarters http://home.earthlink.net/~gregrnamin/andy/sharper.htm

Sharper Instinct Website www.sharperinstinct.com
 
Go to Africa?, Go to Africa? Oh no you don't not until you have delivered all of the BM's and Mean Streets
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BOOOOMM.....the cloud will get you even in the deepest part of Africa!
Originally posted by Andy Prisco:
I used my Apache Thrower to kill a Wild Boar...no dice...bounced off his head
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I might do a streaming video of it at the website...

The press on the hunt however elevated me to new heights in the annals of knifethrowing
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"...Oh....you're that guy who did WHAT? Wow...it's nice to meet you Andy...I think that's the most hysterical thing I ever heard..."

Now, I just imagine the boar when throwing at my wood target
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If I go to Africa next year, I expect to try it on a Warthog with Aubrey next to me with his 375 just in case...
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Ron,
Now Thets-A-Noif Shop
Bremerton, Washington
 
Wish I had a story like Straightblastspfs' to tell. I carry my Desert Warfare Meanstreet every day at work, it has cut burlap and pried the nails out of root balls, cut tons of cord and weed eater line; during a recent camping trip in the Smokey Mountains, my wife used it to prepare food...I did not see it for three days. I used it to split kindling on the same camping trip.

Pretty mundane stuff, but you know, the damn thing works.
 
Sounds like fun Andy
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I'm getting a .338 lapua magnum soonish, If Aubery can't go
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James

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