The ones that got away.

kyhunt

kyhunt

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Has anyone ever pass up on buying knives only to down the road wish they bought it or them? If so what was it? Mine are the stag 300 series that SMKW had about a year or so ago.
 
One of mine was a Buck Custom Sub-Hilt Bowie Knife model 904 with Mastodon-ivory grip and there were more, like a 110 American Bison and so on... :eek: :yawn: :eek: ...

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There is a knife I liked so much I have owned it twice. About a year ago I traded a bunch of knives for a 110 four colour etched Bald Eagle in a display box. I had to have it and gave up too much to get it. A few months later the guys I did the trade with were selling some knives and there was my Schrade Ducks Unlimited Bird Knife, like a 321 with a gut hook, that I had liked very much the first time around and this time they want about half what I paid the first time so I bought it back again. How many times do you think I will have to buy it before it is free? Next time it should be very reasonably priced any way.
 
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I't hasn't gotten away yet (hopefully), but a mom&pop fishing outfitter near me has a 307 Wrangler in their Buck display.

I gotta get over there and make them an offer.
 
Several rare 300 series on fleabay. I just didn't have the stomach to bid one more dollar, but now (some years later) having never come across any of them again, I wonder if that one more dollar would have turned the other guys stomach......."No man knows the day"
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ItsTooEarly said:
One of mine was a Buck Custom Sub-Hilt Bowie Knife model 904 with Mastodon-ivory grip and there were more, like a 110 American Bison and so on... :eek: :eek: ...
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OH man i can feel your pain!
yes omg how i can relate...
oh so really really easy !!
a highly desirable thing of rare perfection and ...
jest almost touching it with your finger tips....
only to watch it slip and fade away ...
stolen by another lover no less!
oh... to miss a sub hilt ivory bowie!!!:confused: :eek:
any thing else is just ...
jest....
:(

i have lost count of the times i wish i had spent that one extra buck!
 
Stringfellow, The 307 is a good size knife and has 3 well shaped blades. A good choice to carry in the pocket.
300, I know what you mean on bidding. I've actually used vacation if something I wanted was coming off in the middle of the day and I thought I had a good chance at it. Some I snaged some I had to wash dishes and stew about it. DM
 
For me it was a turquiose/silver 112 I tried to snipe on the bay...It went for 37.00 and my snipe for 55.00 did not go thru...I still think about it..
 
I had an opportunity to buy a Randall #1 from an E-8 that carried it in Viet Nam. I was at a place where I was raising toddlers and could put up the 100 dollars he was asking. I hope he didn't sell it.
 
Quite a few years ago My uncle offered me a Ruana he bought when he was a teenager, one of Rudy's early large bowies for $500 I passed and I've seen this same knife sell for $8000 to $10,000 recently.
 
honesttom said:
Quite a few years ago My uncle offered me a Ruana he bought when he was a teenager, one of Rudy's early large bowies for $500 I passed and I've seen this same knife sell for $8000 to $10,000 recently.
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OK, you win, Tom! :eek:
 
Heres one I lost to a higher bidder on ebay a while back. Its the only elk handled ax knife combo set from the 1950's that I have ever seen. I have a few in Lignum Vitea and even one in lucite but....none in elk. :(
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