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Only once and I'm not 100% sure of it.
In the 1969 movie The Wild Bunch with William Holden and a boatload of big name stars theres a scene that I think they have a Buck 110. It's where they are delivering the stolen guns and the Mexican army guy goes to take them by force without paying, Holden lights a fuse that is going to blow up the wagon load of guns. Mexican army guy agrees to a later meet with the gold for the guns, and the wagon driver, old actor Edmond O'Brian, cuts the fuse by flipping out a lockblade that looks suspiciously like a 110.
Maybe somebody with younger and sharper eyes can find out.
In Easy Rider, Billy has a Buck 110 that he's brandishing while yelling at the redneck attackers in the night attack on thier campsite.
In the 1969 movie The Wild Bunch with William Holden and a boatload of big name stars theres a scene that I think they have a Buck 110. It's where they are delivering the stolen guns and the Mexican army guy goes to take them by force without paying, Holden lights a fuse that is going to blow up the wagon load of guns. Mexican army guy agrees to a later meet with the gold for the guns, and the wagon driver, old actor Edmond O'Brian, cuts the fuse by flipping out a lockblade that looks suspiciously like a 110.
Maybe somebody with younger and sharper eyes can find out.
In Easy Rider, Billy has a Buck 110 that he's brandishing while yelling at the redneck attackers in the night attack on thier campsite.
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That movie The Wild Bunch took place in 1913 so whatever that lockblade was, it couldn't have truly been a Buck in the correct time context......although the makers of the movie may have used a 110.
That's the problem with most "Westerns," they were set prior to Buck.
There's always the "Duke" boys and lots more Bucks in contemporary movies.
That's the problem with most "Westerns," they were set prior to Buck.
There's always the "Duke" boys and lots more Bucks in contemporary movies.
It's possible that Bucks could have made it into westerns. Most movies, especially back when westerns were really big, weren't too concerned with such minutiae. The Wild Bunch, for example, has numerous firearm related idiosyncrasies. They probably figured, "What kind of nerd is gonna fact check whether the character could have had a Buck knife or a Barlow", and so on. They never dreamed of an audience with so much free time on their hands, and an internet database to disassemble their movies shot by shot.
One thing that is interesting about that shot is that O'Brien flicks the blade open as if it were a modern one hand opener with a thumb stud.
One thing that is interesting about that shot is that O'Brien flicks the blade open as if it were a modern one hand opener with a thumb stud.
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One of the Lonesome Dove prequels - I think it was Comanche Moon - showed a knife that looked like a 110. There wasnt enough detail to be sure but it certainly didnt look period correct.