The Sunday Picture Show (October 12th, 2025)

[DeSotoSky]

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. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost

Columbus claiming San Salvador Island for Spain (1893 chromolithograph)

These Natives are so nice, we’d be crazy not to enslave them!​

This excerpt from Columbus’ diary describes the Arawak people who greeted him and his men:

They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned… . They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane… . They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.

On This Day, October 12th, 1492, Christopher Columbus lands on the Bahamian Island known today as San Salvador Island. (not the be confused with the capital city of El Salvador). A voyage that only suceeded by dumb luck. It was known even in Columbus's time that the world was not flat and somewhat accurate calculations of the diameter of the earth existed. It was known thru the travels of explorers such as the Marco Polo how far the orient was traveling east overland. Columbus proposed reaching the orient by sailing westward. He convinced himself this voyage was possible because his own calculations of the earth's diameter were much under estimated. If he had not bumped into the Americas he would have sailed out of the history books, a voyage of the true distance not being possible. As history is being rewritten, Columbus Day will probably meet the same fate as the 140 year old Columbus Statue torn down in St Louis in 2020, part of a national movement to take down statues of Columbus. Many feel Columbus Day symbolizes a disregard for indigenous peoples and cultures and the centuries of genocide against indigenous populations in the Americas that followed. Columbus Day is a Federal Holiday on the 2nd Monday of October. Not all states recognize Columbus Day, some replacing it with Indigenous Peoples Day.


Stag Buck 500 commemorating 500 years, 1492-1992. The distinctive multi-colored etch is by Taylor. Documented on the 1992 Special Projects with no total listed. A serial number is engraved on a bolster. There are 2 different Buck 110's also commemorating Columbus day, one with a Corian handle scrimshawed by Linda Karst and the other with a gold etch blade.

 

[bertl]

BUCK 301 SCHRADE VARIATION 3—Like all of the Schrade and Camillus contract knives, this 301 has no date code. However, the “BUCK” tang stamp on the two secondary blades identifies it as a Schrade Variation 3 made roughly (not roughly made) from 1967 through 1971. The third photo is a knife with the “BUCK” stamp on the “wrong” side.

Bert

 

[bertl]

Many feel Columbus Day symbolizes a disregard for indigenous peoples and cultures and the centuries of genocide against indigenous populations in the Americas that followed.

When my wife taught on the Navajo Reservation and then later at Taos Pueblo, Columbus Day was not one of the more popular holidays.

Bert

 

[Ironbut]

I hope everyone's having a good weekend.

 

[Arian29]

Greetings,

 

[Arian29]

 

[SoDak81]

Being of Norwegian descent, I don't recognize Columbus Day, I celebrate Leif Erikson Day (October 9th) as he was the first European to discover North America roughly 500 years before Columbus. LOL! Also, living in South Dakota, we have Native American Day instead of Columbus Day. He's not much of a big deal where I live!

 

[Tecate]

 

[DeSotoSky]

Leif Eriksson Discovers America by Hans Dahl (1849-1937)

Being of Norwegian descent, I don't recognize Columbus Day, I celebrate Leif Erikson Day (October 9th) as he was the first European to discover North America roughly 500 years before Columbus. LOL! Also, living in South Dakota, we have Native American Day instead of Columbus Day. He's not much of a big deal where I live!

"October 9 was chosen because it is the anniversary of the day that the ship Restauration arrived in New York from Stavanger, Norway on October 9, 1825. This was the start of organized immigration from Scandinavia to the USA. The date is not associated with an event in Leif Erikson's life."

Columbus gets credit for "discovering" a place where people were already living. He never stepped foot in North America yet Columbus Day is a Federal Holiday in the United States. He did spend some time poking around the Central and South American coasts. "Columbus Day" is celebrated elsewhere under various names. For North America, Leif Erikson Day would be more appropriate for a federal holiday beating Columbus by about 500 years. First recognized in 1925 by Calvin Coolidge, it has been recognized every year since 1964 by presidential proclamation. It is an official holiday in several states. He is believed to be the first viking to have visited North America.

I could picture a Viking carrying a small personal dagger. Handy for a lot of things.
Carbon steel (not stainless) blade and 9" OAL. The BUCK* stamp suggests a possible '66-'67 time period.

 

[Chilebrown]

 

[Old Hunter]

Columbus Day here means no mail delivery and the federal government shuts down (guess they are having a long Columbus Day this year). Never heard of any C.D. celebration going on in these parts nor any Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations - regular folks simply go to work. I have an American made knife to show, Buck 846 Vantage Forge. OH

 

[tiguy7]

Thank you Roger for doing the Sunday Picture Show and the research to shed light on improvements to historical accuracy. The first circumnavigation, 30 years after Columbus, was a close run thing. This is a Model 428 Selector. The clip blade is not removable and does not lock. The other slot handles all 10 Selector blades and locks them in the open position.

 

[howiema]

Getting ready to go to hunting camp in a few weeks was sharpening my trusty and favorite 119 figured I would post, Thank You Roger and all who post for the SPS, Enjoy Pete

 

[Chilebrown]

Three Buck custom Colombus 110's. The first is a scrimshaw done by Linda Karst and the last is a proto where Karst was experimenting with bone material.

 

[kyhunt]

Getting ready to go to hunting camp in a few weeks was sharpening my trusty and favorite 119 figured I would post, Thank You Roger and all who post for the SPS, Enjoy Pete


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Absolutely gorgeous.

 

[kyhunt]

Once again thank you for the SPS.

 

[DaveHS]

Thank you Roger for doing the Sunday Picture Show again, and the always-interesting historical research about events on or around this day. I’ve shared some of my Bucks in previous SPS, but today’s knife is a special one. I am the happy new owner of the Buck Collectors Club 2025 auction knife. It is a Brian Hugh Custom 112 Ranger, featuring a rock pattern on spring and blade spine, with beautiful stag and a Mammoth Tooth spacer. I was so blown away by this knife when I first opened the box this week that I picked up the phone and called Mr. Hugh to thank him for making it. What a craftsman, who is a nice and knowledgeable man to boot. I’m a relative newcomer to this scene and the whole experience has been grand. Thanks again to him, Dale Eichberg, BCCI and to all who post and share.

 

[Invoice]

A couple of new ones. The Range and a custom 110 in Orange G10. I'm a sucker for orange

 

[jmh33]

 

[Kyui Su Kim]

Got this at the local gun show. A Leroy Remer marked, double bladed 110.