New Buck 110 owner, is this normal?

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Iris223

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After making my way up the Spyderco and Benchmade ladder, and then through Chris Reeve knives, as I was walking through my local sporting goods store, I found a Buck 110 on sale. It then crossed my mind, that I did not yet own such a classic knife! So I picked it up, as a treat to myself, and rushed it home to play with my new knife.

Everything seems fine, but I notice that if I push down on the closed blade, I can make the tip of the blade contact the back spring. Is this normal behavior for a Buck 110?

Thanks!
 
The "kick" on my folder keeps the closed blade from slamming into the inside of the back of the knife (Buck 110 fingergroove Hunter). It is that proud portion of the unsharpened part of the blade above the B, from the word Buck, on the blade close to the pivot:

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You know that the kick is working when you push on the closed blade and the blade moves, though under resistance to movement due to the tension of the backspring, toward the inside of the back of the knife:

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With the kick working its magic the closed sharpened part of the blade stands off from the inside of the back of this knife about 1/4 inch:

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link to illustrative pic: http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/informative_pictures/terminology pics/blade_parts.jpg

I have had the misfortune to have a few folders, various manufacturers, whose blades actually slam into and rest upon the inside of the back of the knife when closed. You can feel the flattened or chipped impact zone of the sharpened blade and and seen the strike zone of the blade on the inside of the back of the knife. They either had no kicks or non-functioning kicks. Do you have any folders like that?
 
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Thank you kindly Ed.

I got a lot of respect for Buck, the family, the products and the whole team producing objects of my desire.
 
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