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I bought one, then bought another. I had bought several Busse knives to that point, but none since. The giant choil, typical to busses- especially combined with the rounded guard protrusion thing- is a huge turn off. On that sized knife, choking up on the ricasso makes no sense. Actually, I cannot come up with a good reason to have a huge choil or giant ricasso on any knife. Make a handle that extends to the cutting edge, then choking up is unnecessary. Bare blade steel is not comfortable to hold, that's why we put handles on knife tangs. The sar5 handle is the best handle shape Busse ever put on a micarta or G10 handled blade. Jerry hated it because he thought it looked like a hammer handle. Yep, nice and functional. Not at all like some of his creations (scotch dispenser...). I own some fan-coveted Busse blades, but the sar5 is my favorite. If counting ounces is the order of the day it may stay home, but it may make it as an indulgence none the less. Before a week long backpacking elk hunt in Colorado, I spent weeks pouring over weights of everything, and spent way too much money to cut weight where I could. But, that heavy, hammer handled sar5 was on my hip the whole duration of the trip. I stripped, polished, and conceded one, and left one as new. There are better-carrying knives, and there are sharper-out-of-the-box knives. But, in the 5" blade catergory it is my "if you could only have one" knife.
