DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. Above all, enjoy the show. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
This Day in History March 6, 1836
The 13 day seige of the Alamo Mission near present day San Antonio Texas took place from February 23 to March 6, 1836. 6,000 Mexican troops under General Santa Anna took control of the Mission with casualties estimated to be between 400 to 600. Of the 256 known present at the Mission there were 43 survivors. Famously present were Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, the Seige ending the morning of March 6 with their deaths. In keeping with my last weeks presentation there was a 1960 movie with John Wayne The Alamo
Wiki link for further reading.
Battle of the Alamo - Wikipedia
Drawing of the Alamo c.1854
Around 2008 Buck made a series of large knives for Browning''s Living History Series. There were 6 total and Buck made 3 of them for sure. They are documented in the Special Projects list. 003 Robert E Lee, 004 Eisenhower/Normandy, 006 Vietnam. The 001 Liberty Tree and 002 The Alamo are not documented. 005 Crazy Horse is an Obsidian bladed knife so I don't know how that could be connected to Buck. Each of the knives has a wooden handle taken from a tree with some historical connection. In the case of the Alamo knife, Oak from a tree in the Mission courtyard.
I officially have too many knives and spent the entire evening trying to find my camera shy Alamo Bowie. I found it just before midnight......
update....Boy, I really messed up this week, in trying to find out more about the Alamo knife I discovered it was made for Browning by "Arrowhead", not Buck. I made a bad assumption that since 3 were listed on the special projects the other 2 were part of the same series. I guess I really am like Larry David.
I'm going to post a picture of the Browning 002 Alamo knife anyways. Shown here along side the Buck 903 Bowie to maintain correctness.
Jim Bowie died at the Alamo but to this day large bladed fighting style knives are iconically called "Bowie" knives.
The following 3 knives are also from the same living history series and actually were made by Buck and documented in the Special projects list.
Browning 003 Robert E Lee, Buck model 611, Black Oak handle with D-Guard, 500 made, 2008 SP list
Browning 004 Eisenhower, Buck model 612, Ash wood handle, 420HC coated blade, serialized to 1944 but only 500 made, 2008 SP list
Browning 006 Vietnam, Buck model 610, Khan Hin wood handle, serialized to 1975, 2007 SP list
There are a number of customs based on this blade, MT_Pokt shows one in #3 below.
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