The most outrageous thing I ever read in a Buck Knife for Sale ad.

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Huh????.. The Battle of Little Bighorn was June 25-26, 1876
Surely this guy was joking.......

"I HAVE A VINTAGE BUCK # 120 HUNTING KNIFE AND NON FACTORY SHEATH FOR SALE. THESE OLD BUCKS ARE GETTING HARDER TO FIND, THIS ONE WAS USED IN THE WYOMING TERRITORIES ABOUT THE TIME OF GEN. GEO. CUSTER. IT HAS SOME SMALL CHIPS MISSING FROM THE BACK OF THE BLADE_SEE THE PICTURES), WHERE I THINK A ROCK WAS USED TO SPLIT THE PELVIS ON ELK AND DEER AND ? THE REASON I SAY THAT IS WHEN I HUNTED ABOUT 55 YEARS AGO I DID THE SAME THING TO MY OLD BUCK. THE BLADE IS STILL GOOD, THE BUCK BLADES ARE SO HARD THEY CHIP WHEN STRUCK WITH A HARD ROCK."

Photo by seller, I don't think it's a 4-spacer which would make it newer than 1980.
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Wow, general custer? I can see how a knife from 55 years ago could relate to one from general custers time. Really? Sadly enough some sucker will pay too much for it. Hopefully it is at least a real buck.
 
"THE BUCK BLADES ARE SO HARD THEY CHIP WHEN STRUCK WITH A HARD ROCK"

lulz

He actually just mispelled it. Jenji O. Custer was an outlaw biker with the hells angels wyoming chapter in the 1980s. He carried a Case hunting knife though, so this is obviously a fraudulent claim.
 
I got to have this one, to go with my arrow head collection... All my arrows were made by young bucks... :eek: ... ;) ... :D
 
Everyone knows that Custer and his Soldiers carried the Buck 124; who is this guy trying to fool?
 
My favorite response.... :thumbup:

A Justice said:
He actually just mispelled it. Jenji O. Custer was an outlaw biker with the hells angels wyoming chapter in the 1980s. He carried a Case hunting knife though, so this is obviously a fraudulent claim.
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What is it with the need to connect a knife for sale to a historical event... I always chuckle when I see a "Vietnam War Era" Buck knife for sale.
 
He is a liar. I know this because I made most of the knives used on both sides of that battle! I still have a few of them for sale.
 
As a Vietnam Veteran I get really PO'ed when I read the Vietnam Era crap. Bet they don't know what year the US Military started training VN troops or when the war was declared over.
In 1956 the French forces left Vietnam. 1957 the US Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) assumes responsibility, from French, for training South Vietnamese forces.
The war officially ended in 1975.
I always have to ask the seller if they actually know anything about Vietnam or any other US combat era, I generally don't get a response. I would not buy a knife from anyone who even mentions such mindless garbage when listing a knife.

Mike
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Is the seller's name Paul Bunyon?

San Juan county, see the imprint on the ruler is the seller's photo, doesn't ring a bell. But he's probably from the West. Out west somewhere is my guess. The official home of the tall tale. I haven't time to explain, gotta whip my weight in western wild cats...

That being said, in jest of course, a good story compliments a good knife. Time travel, as this vendor hits at, could make this possible. Personally, I'd take 100 AK 47s, and plenty of Buck knives, back in time to such a battle (having read the interesting book "Guns of the South" and enjoyed it. I won't tell you which side I would take but Custer wouldn't survive my version either. BTW, I would read this story of how the West was lost if competently written.

Update: Vendor is located in Aztec, NM 87410 = the West. (TAll Tale is possible but they probably cut and pasted verbiage from a gun description into this knife description by accident)
 
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genewiseman said:
He is a liar. I know this because I made most of the knives used on both sides of that battle! I still have a few of them for sale.
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Killer thread. Your post made me laugh at loud, for a nanosec I was hooked by you doing "both sides". :-D
Someone PLEASE "set the hook" on this seller and post back. Ha!:D
 
"A Hard Rock"

I don't usually bash my knife with Rocks but when I do I try to pick the softest one I can.
 
Oh now you guys went and did it!!!!! I have Custer's personal Buck knife in my collection, you see he scratched his face on it and the face of his enemy just before he went into the big horn battle, you can clearly see his prediction of his last stand. So I know they had Buck knives way back when;):p.




This is one funny thread...LOL
jb4570
 
Well, I have a Buck Lite that was used to assassinate Lincoln. My old crosslock was used at the first Thanksgiving meal at Plymouth Rock, where King Louis Ferdinand the IVth told me it was the finest knife he had ever seen...........
 
You all have proven that "the first liar doesn't have a chance." My sides now hurt. LOL!
 
ChicoMike said:
As a Vietnam Veteran I get really PO'ed when I read the Vietnam Era crap. Bet they don't know what year the US Military started training VN troops or when the war was declared over.
In 1956 the French forces left Vietnam. 1957 the US Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) assumes responsibility, from French, for training South Vietnamese forces.
The war officially ended in 1975.
I always have to ask the seller if they actually know anything about Vietnam or any other US combat era, I generally don't get a response. I would not buy a knife from anyone who even mentions such mindless garbage when listing a knife.

Mike
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BCCI Life Member 2506
Vietnam Veterans of America Life Member
Disabled American Veterans Life Member
Contributor Wounder Warrior Project
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First off God Bless you for your Service!! It is men like you that make me love this country. My Father was a 100% Disabled Vietnam Vet. He passed in 2006 I miss him so much.

That said, how does a WAR officially end, that was never officially a war? Just busting your balls. Again God Bless and keep you
 
Answer by lister: "IT WAS TONGUE AND CHEEK, BUT IF IT HAD BEEN AVAILABLE, I THINK CUSTER WOULD HAVE DAD ONE ON HIS PERSON, THANKS FOR THE HISTORY , GOD BLESS, (name omitted by me)"

Question put to lister: "Exciting history to this knife. However, I don't understand how this Buck 120 could have existed in the time of Custer when Hoyt Buck, the founder of Buck Knives, wasn't born until 13 years after Custer died. I see that you are from the West so I guess that this is a tall tale like Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. Or is time travel involved? Thank you kindly."

Hay St Louis (AKA desotosky): You have an act, yes you do, that you could take onto the road and entertain cutlery enthusiasts world wide! The only thing missing from the BCCI 25th last summer was a comic, not that folks there weren't jovial and fun, a laugh riot generator with a routine capable of putting an enthusiast on tilt with humor. You are that guy. Such is the stuff of a good book, act, magazine article, BCCI newsletter piece, key note speech and such. You have a gift. Lots of fun in you. Big fun. Thank you.
 
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