new BUCK KNIFE give away!!!! you & your buck story

First let me say some great stories and I would like to thank everyone for helping with my story,

Visiting at Aunt and cousin's house at age 9 cousin is showwing me a bunch of knives, my Mom is not happy, Dad helps keep her calm short version prior to leaving as it is an 1 1/2 ride home cousin hands me a knife turns out to be a buck now Mom is really mad and no way am I getting this knife, Dad steps in and takes control as he will keep knife and finally mom agrees. Dad gets knife to me just lets me know 1st time I miss use or my Mom finds out or see's it the knife will disappear. Have knife less than a month as I go into woods with friends and I have my knife in pocket yep DUMBASS losses knife never to be seen again. Forward 30 years as I am visiting my cousin with my son now 12 and my cousin hands me the box to the knife I lost 30 years ago at last I know what knife I did have for a little while. Got a box and no knife but I know what to look for at least I did as I waited and my wife is one that see's something empty yes she throws it out but I remember it is a Ranger I will get to it. Yes 10 years go by and no time to hunt my knife, saddly my cousin's health really starts to fail and he does pass. Prior to passing we get to talk hunting, guns, knive's. That is when I find out that the knife was the 1st version Ranger as he goes through the story of how pissed my mom was about the knife and we talk about taking it with you and I tell him shut up we got alot of beer gun's knive's to go through. He tells me I just want a few as he always had a knife at all times hey you never know he tells me, my Buck's are for using my Kabar's are for show and the rest depends on the hunt and my mood. Ok so how hard could it be to find this knife ? 1st find out what I am looking for, Join BF, locate Buck SF, Read Read Read, ask some question's, meet lot's of great people with a wide varity of knowledge, see alot of nice knives, read somewhere that it takes time to locate that special knife just got to be patient and it will come sooner or later,later,later hey it's been a year and a half and it is here 1972 1st version, 1st variation, new in the box, 2 line inverted, micarta scales, brass retainer, stainless pin, brass rivits, leather sheath 112 on top, paper's, box, (THIS IS HEADING TO JOE H FOR THE SPA). Thanks 110dave as I got to share my Buck Story and I must Thank everyone for helping with my story whether they knew it or not.
 
My BUCK story:

I am 48, & been into knives my whole life. Killed my first snake with my plastic sword when i was 7. I really didn't know much about knives until the last 5 years. Went to SMKW on a vacation. Was looking at the bazillion knives they have. I had a $500 budget. I also had a list of stuff i wanted. I have never owned a Buck knife. I prefer hard use fixed blades, but my tastes go all over the board every now & then. Well the looks of the Tops/Buck CSAR-T fixed blade seemed appealing to me. Once i held it in my hand, it was all over. I instantly loved it. It fit my hand like it was made for me. The balance was perfect at the choil. I like a big functional choil. The fit & finish was excellent. The grip was excellent. It is fast in the hand. The sheath is excellent (which is a rarity these days). I had to change & reorganize my whole darn list, because once i held it, i KNEW it was coming home with me. It is one of the sharpest out of the box knives i have bought, & i think i am up to 50-60. I have since bought a Buck Nano Bantum & a Buck Silver Creek Bait Knife. I love them as well. I carry the Buck nano bantum everyday at work. I am not an easy man to impress, yet Buck has impressed me. I WILL be adding the folding version of the CSAR-T to my collection as well. Thanks for producing some GREAT products. Thanks for the contest.
 
My buck story:

I became obsessed with the 112 ranger after I found a cheap knife that closely resembled it on a biking trip. After some research I found a cutlery shop that had them in stock. I went and had a great conversation with the man who was working there about David Yellowhorse and why Buck disassociated themselves from him. I left the store with my first 112. After some more research I found out that I had purchased that knife from the same store that OJ Simpson bought a stiletto knife just a few days prior to his wife's murder. Not much of a story, but it's mine.
 
My first three years active duty, I was stationed in the Philippines and carried a non-Buck...Somewhere along the way it was either lost or stolen? I bought a SWEET desert camo Bucklite (442,426?) at the PX/BX...It took tons of abuse and served me well...Last year I sent it to my cousin who is stationed in Iraq serving active duty with the Navy (security police)...A 22 year old desert camo Bucklite still in service, still being used by an active duty soldier !! That says alot about Buck quality..
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ah wow .. this was on page three!
so i will bump it yet again
and hope we get some new stories
will close this around the first of may
and pick a winner!!!
so come on we all want to hear about you and your buck!!
and yes if someone over seas wins i will ship the buck they won there!
 
Back in my USMC days the PX sold guns of all kinds (that was California before it became California) plus a wide assortment of Buck products. I spotted a model 106 hand axe paying a whopping $13 that my former wife thought was wasteful spending as she felt on every outdoor piece of equipment I purchased. It was shnarper than a razor and I always managed to cut myself when puttig it away in its stout leather sheath. Fast forward several years.... One day I was looking for my old 106 and found it in the bottom of my foot locker half submetrged in water. Great, I ruined it I feared. Upon retrieval it had large bunions of rust (bad news) and the sheath was moldy (yuck). Well, I took a green abrasive pad and scrubbed the rust away and after some polishing the steel was indeed stained-less. The aluminum components were mostly intact but pitted. They buffed out real good. 42 years later I still have that unused 106 on my workbench far away from any corroding element ever ready for service. I learned a valuable lesson: Take care of your equipment and it will take care of you. -sevensix
 
This is a story involving two bucks...a 3 pointer and a 110.


Not MY story and it happened before I was born...but here it is

My cousin Billy Ray was a bit of a hellraiser when he was a teenager, he and some buddies had been drinking and cruising gravel roads in an ol' farm truck. My cousin was in the back, imbibing of a malt beverage when he saw a young 3-point buck in the ditch ahead, revealed in the headlights. On a spur of the moment harebrained idea...he pulled his 110 out and leaped on the deer as they passed it (going about 10MPH). He somehow actually managed to tackle the deer, and while he was laying on it, proceeded to ''stick it in the ribs'' with his Buck. at the first stab, the deer lurched up and ran, bouncing repeatedly off a barb-wire fence while dragging & kicking my cousin who stupidly held on. after about 15-30 seconds of this, he managed to bring the deer down for the second time and ''stuck it in the ribs'' again...meanwhile the truck had stopped and his buddies piled out to ''help'' Billy Ray with this deer-killing. The driver came up with a snub-nose .357 from the glovebox and after running up to Billy Ray and the deer....commenced to firing at it from about 5' (much to my cousin's displeasure). According to my cousin, you have NOT had a ''sobering experience'' until you've had a deer half maul you to death, and then have a drunk crony start firing a hand-cannon at you in the dark.


Billy Ray survived, the deer did not. My cousin still carries that 110 and the scars on his back, ribs and arms to this day. After High School he joined the Navy and retired a few years ago as an officer. It's hard to believe looking at the quiet, dignified retiree and grandfather that he is today that he ever had such a wild stupid Youth LOL

Hearing that story growing up, and seeing his well-worn/traveled 110 as he pulled it out to show us kids at family reunions...is the main reason the first knife I bought myself was a Buck 110. I lost it years ago, but have always replaced it, my second and third 110s I gifted to friends and every time I go in the woods now I carry my fourth 110 along with me.






*I do not condone or support any illegal/stupid behaviors displayed in this story.
 
I started being interested in knives when I was pretty young. I remember sneaking around the house to admire my older brother's and my dad's knives, trying not to get caught as I knew I'd probably get in trouble. I'd find a knife, look it over, and put it back in the exact same spot that I found it so no one would know. I was always very cautious, never cut myself in any way. For a long time, I would just admire others' knives. Then one day, my mom decided it would be okay if I got a utility knife. I remember taking it out back and whittling the bark off of a stick for the first time. I thought it was the coolest thing. As time went by, I acquired a couple/few other utility knives, and moved 'up' to some cheap (basically junk) folding knives. Then one year for my birthday, my parents decided I could get a 'real' knife. Something that wasn't the cheapest cheapie on the shelf. I looked at many knives; Case, Gerber, whatever caught my eye, in preparation for the day I would finally be able to get whatever knife I chose. Finally that day came. My dad took me to the local Walmart, and I scanned/ studied the knives under the glass counter for a bit, and finally settled on a Buck Odyssey 186. I was proud of that knife. I kept it in the original box for the longest time. I used to take it out and admire it like a prized gem. That's what started me on Buck knives. I'm a big fan, and I recommend them to friends and family whenever they're looking for/ interested in a knife.
 
In February of '89 I was leading an engineer recon team in Honduras as part of Task Force Tiger out of the 20th Engineer Brigade from Fort Bragg, NC. One of my NCOs was a surveyor named Mike Finley. Mike showed up with a Buck 184 dangling off of his pistol belt. I'd never seen one in the flesh before and thought it was a really neat design. Mike had not babied it. He had lost one of the anchor pins and virtually all the survival items that came in the sheath pouches were gone. The knife was a bit scratched and dinged but in otherwise good shape. I told Mike that if he ever considered selling it to let me know and I'd give him a fair price for it.

About a week later we were sitting across from each other in a C-130, heading for a parachute jump in southern Honduras. Before deploying for Honduras I had purchased one of the first Casio altimeter watches sold in the PX at Fort Bragg. Before the plane took off I was sitting in my seat playing with the settings so I could monitor the C-130's altitude just before the jump (we always suspected the pilots came in a bit too low on our jumps). I wasn't particularly impressed with the watch. It only provided altitude readouts in meters and I was planning on replacing it when we got back to Fort Bragg. Mike, however, became fascinated by it. I let him play with it during the short flight to the drop zone and he thought it was the coolest thing he'd ever seen.

Back in camp after the jump Mike came up to me and asked if I'd be interested in doing a straight trade - my watch for his knife. I hesitated. I knew his knife was worth much more than the watch and I told him so. Mike didn't care. He told me he was never much impressed with the knife and he really wanted the watch. We did the trade.

I'm sure the Casio went into the garbage decades ago, but I still have the Buck 184 in my collection.
 
some really good storys here !!
i have not been on here to read them much as computer crashing
and finley died a hdd death
so this has run long enught and next week will end with a winner picked
so consiter this last chance to enter your story!!!
 
ugh.. hello you'all!
yes been a few days sence i been own line here
lot of things happening in my life and i appolgise for the delay
one was that i lost my pass word for the site ..
the others i am going to post in a seperat post..

well we have a winner the story was picked out by a friend who dont know any of you'all
it is .... ta da ...JNieporte with his post about the 112 in the zoo poo !!!
she thought that was sooooooo funny !! said it showed how much the guy liked his knife!!

so JNieporte pleast get with me on your street address...
the prize ( i have to find it first) will most likely be a 3 dot 112..
but may be another buck ...

now as always i can send the prize to who ever the winner wants if they want it to go some place else
or i can donate it to the local scouts ...
 
110 Dave said:
ugh.. hello you'all!
yes been a few days sence i been own line here
lot of things happening in my life and i appolgise for the delay
one was that i lost my pass word for the site ..
the others i am going to post in a seperat post..

well we have a winner the story was picked out by a friend who dont know any of you'all
it is .... ta da ...JNieporte with his post about the 112 in the zoo poo !!!
she thought that was sooooooo funny !! said it showed how much the guy liked his knife!!

so JNieporte pleast get with me on your street address...
the prize ( i have to find it first) will most likely be a 3 dot 112..
but may be another buck ...

now as always i can send the prize to who ever the winner wants if they want it to go some place else
or i can donate it to the local scouts ...
Click to expand...

PM sent on what the knife will go towards.
 
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