Interesting thread here guys

I'm not really a huge Buck fan like some of you all are but I do have a few of their knives in my long term collection and they have always been one of my favorite American production knife companies over the years.
The reason I chimed in on this particular thread is because this appears to me to be another indication of a very disturbing trend that is taking place throughout the entire country. The trend is to no longer concentrate on selling high quality USA made merchandise or even high quality foreign imports but rather to sell cheap, inferior foreign made items produced in "hell-hole sweatshops instead. The profit margins on such lousy quality items is much bigger than selling high quality items and the main thrust of most retailers here in the USA leans toward the very bottom line and that is how much money they make per quarter>> and can they keep the shareholders happy

and not necessarily to give you or me something for our money.
Buck is a very quality minded company and I have had the priviledge of speaking to a couple of the Buck family members at the big BLADE show in Atlanta a couple of years ago. I think BUCK is truly an American institution and has set a standard of quality throughout the entire USA knife industry.
As long as we got people going to places like "rip-mart" like a throng of herd animals we are going to see less stress on quality and more people favoring cheap items over quality built merchanidise. I say that because I would bet that if Cabellas has indeed deleted the BUCK line they have more than likely replaced it with merchandise produced in 3rd world hell-holes (for a much cheaper price I might add)
Now I'm not against all foreign imports as we know there are some imports that have equal quality to our own manufactured goods. And many of these countries have decent living standards and at least reasonable human rights. But when you see a knife that looks like a Buck model 110 for $4.99

you already know the story behind that one

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When will people ever learn the one age old principle that has proven to be time tested and true>>> YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR<<