NRA Endowment Knife...Colonial, Prov. USA

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Drum4fun

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As found....
This past weekend at the Swap Meet. I gave $10. Cool 2nd Amendment
support artifact. Did not notice the delamination along the entire top of
the blade until I got it home. Was hoping for higher quality from the NRA
but apparently not uncommon. (per internet search). Have seen various
Member level logos of the same... i.e. Member, Patron, Endowment. All
said, I think a cool reminder of something important. :cool:

Charles
https://imgur.com/a/pLpLF6m
 
Drum4fun said:
As found....
This past weekend at the Swap Meet. I gave $10. Cool 2nd Amendment
support artifact. Did not notice the delamination along the entire top of
the blade until I got it home. Was hoping for higher quality from the NRA
but apparently not uncommon. (per internet search). Have seen various
Member level logos of the same... i.e. Member, Patron, Endowment. All
said, I think a cool reminder of something important. :cool:

Charles
https://imgur.com/a/pLpLF6m
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Today they only give out crap but this is actually a good knife as were the Barlows and the rest of Colonials frontier line.

There is no steel delamination on this knife not that there could be on an unlaminated piece of steel, that is simply a low spot where the spine wasn't perfectly ground flat after the blade was stamped out.
You'll see this all the time on the springs of the later Camillus #27 electricians knives.
They and the Colonial frontier line were meant to be good sturdy inexpensive users, not to be fancy.

This should make an excellent user, I know I'd use it.
 
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I have a couple of those. Mine are stamped Lakota USA. Seems like Lakota (Japan) contracted colonial to make some of these, which I think is strange. Regardless, they are decent inexpensive knives and I like the linerlock.
 
Thanks for the correction HnS. I did not know what the terminology was
to describe what I could see (ulceration) .... so, I went with the default. :confused:

Jux...I agree, the brass liner lock is nice... this blade really snaps open
and closed.

Will make a nice everyday carry... and good conversation starter. Next up,
a good cleaning and lube....

But most of all...everytime I pull this out of my pocket I am reminded of
the 2nd Amendment... and that is a good thing. :thumbsup:

Charles
 
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NRA has given out a lot of very nice knives over the years as well as cheapies (foreign and domestic). It would take quite a collector and a lot of money to find them all (if it could be done) - not sure how many I have had, given away the cheapies but I kept some of the better ones. Just in the last two years I acquired these three (two Buck Knives and one Case Knife) - the Buck 110 I bid on and won, the Buck 119 and the Case 6254 were presented to me for 20 years of volunteer gun rights activism. OH
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This is a Schrade USA 897UH Medium Stockman that my brother gave me in the late 1990's. He bid on and won a set of three knives at an NRA banquet - there was a fixed blade (153UH) and a Lockback (LB-7) and this one - he kept the other two for hunting and gave me this one for EDC. The Colonial knife above was given to current members that upgraded their membership during the new Millenium in 2000. There were several knives given out, depending on what they had in stock at the time you upgraded; I received a small Lakota lock-back made in Japan when I upgraded from Life to Endowment - still have it, but it's in my car, which is at the dealership being worked on - so no picture tonight! OH

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This is the Schrade 153UH fixed blade from the set. My brother kept his, however I found this one at a pawnshop many years later, different serial number. I still need to find the LB7 in nice shape to have the whole set. I may have more NRA marked knives, but this is what I can remember now. OH
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Those are some nice looking knives. Based on the knives they gave my Dad, I figured that they were all junk. Ugly, one-hand opening, half-serrated, plastic-handled, low-quality, over-logoed junk, to the point where I didn't even feel bad refusing one. I avoid any "deal" that they offer me that includes a free knife. Dad did give me a NRA SAA replica that's done much nicer, with a small round brass emblem on each side of the grip. I shoot the crap out of that, so it's not collectible anymore ... if it ever was.
 
Thanks gaj. I received several Buck 110 knock-offs made in Taiwan or China. They had a green faux leather sheath - gave them to nephews (who loved them) and weren’t going to treat them well anyhow. I take all they send me and pass the cheapies around. Now that SAA replica sounds like a great piece to own. I missed out on the nice Buck 113 they had a few years back, got my eye pealed for one of those when I stumble across it. OH
 
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