So how many of you bought on?

I did and I still have it, never abused it, used it for slicing some light chopping etc. Still has the original pack inside the handle an all that.
 
I'm guilty too. one of the first ones was POS Chinese survival/hollow handle knife. ~20$ in 1998. The handle fell off once I tried chopping small branch. I figured serious research was in order.

420 Molecular steel is really something, you don't hear about it every day ;)
 
I got the real deal...the Buckmaster. I was 17 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I took it camping and hunting and quickly realized it wasn't the optimum choice due to its weight, but I still have it and it seems to be in better shape than the chinese pretenders.
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Haha! Yep, I had several of those things as a kid. Never lasted long, and the only thing that worked was the cable saw. Great memories though!

I also had the Buckmaster, I always thought that one was pretty bad A$$! ...too bad mine was stollen years ago! :mad:
 
There was another Rambo thread similar to this, about how the knife was a piece of crap. Knowing what we know now, yeah, you could say it was crap, but so were a lot of our first cars. How many of us were sparked by that knife to become the knife lovers that we are.
I guess what I'm trying to say is at the time, that knife was the shit, not a POS. I would walk down to the river, break out the fishing line from inside the hollowed handle, dig up a worm, sit on the bank fishing, whittling sticks. A great knife then, for a great time in life.:)
 
Cavalry_Scout said:
How many of you saved up your pennies and bought one of those cheesy, crappy, hollow handled, Rambo type survival knives when you were growing up? From the back of your Boy Scout magazine or Popular Mechanics? You know the type, 8" blade with the saw back...crappy leather sheath with a pouch for a whet stone on it?
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Sounds familiar. I was lucky that the ad on the last page of the magazine was for a Camillus Pilot's Survival Knife. Cost all of $9.95 back then. Even had the glow in the dark paint on the pommel, though it didn't glow much and I thought it was just an army surplus marking of some kind at the time. Not the world's greatest knife, but not bad. The original grew legs and walked, but I picked up another on the exchange recently just for the memories.
 
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