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What Buck are you carrying today?
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Culprit99
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It’s a winner, for sure! The Marksman is still the fastest, most reliable, lefty-friendly, one-handed opening and closing knife I have found. The Demko AD20.5 Shark Lock is close, but the Marksman is faster - and I don’t like the choil/finger grooves on the Demko. It forces your finger to be in front of it and too close to the blade, or behind it and too far away. It’s just wrong for my hands. I love the Shark Lock mechanism, though. I’ve also tried OTF automatics, but they are not reliable.
The finger guard on the Marksman is borderline - I can put up with it. Every time I pick up the Marksman, I want my forefinger just 1/4” to 3/8” inch farther forward. It’s like there’s this measurement hard-coded into my brain of what distance from forefinger to the start of the cutting edge feels right for me. 1/4” to 9/16” is the sweet spot. I can work with up to 3/4”. Anything more than that I just don’t like. This is for folders and pocket-sized fixed blades. I know that sounds weird - maybe it’s muscle memory from the 503 I grew up carrying? I have no idea. Please don’t think I’m trying to nit-pick an excellent knife. My engineer brain is just always looking at mechanical things and considering optimizations to the design.
hunterjrg
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I’m headed to the cabin tomorrow. My kids will be joining us. I can walk (slow) but well. My redneck is heated and I’ll be with my wife. I need to get out and it will be good for my soul and I’m bringing a bunch of Buck knives with mehunterjrg when you consider how bad a fall could be, I’d say you’re a fortunate man! Glad you can already be out and about. OH
DaveHS
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Glad you’re up and about!
Ironbut
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I'm glad you're healing, and able to keep moving around. I've had more than my share of plaster casts, and broken bones, so I'm not as fearless as I used to be. Heck, at my age even a stiff neck seems to take forever to go away.
hunterjrg
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Thanks. I enjoy your posts/pics here. Please keep them coming
DaveHS
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Excellent photos sir! Love that “open air” deck top range setup.
Culprit99
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She’s a good ship, for sure. Someday I should dump a bunch of pictures to a shared album and post a link. There’s corners of the hard drives and associated parts of my brain that I haven’t visited in a long time.
hunterjrg
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Love it
Tomahawk1088
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Just got the Alpha Guide Elite, it’s perfect in every way. Edge grind is even on both sides and came razor sharp. Need to get out in the woods with it.
Culprit99
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Welcome!!
If you pay for a membership you can attach pictures directly. You can also use a separate pic hosting site and link them. I use Flickr, but there are several options. Here’s how a directly attached pic looks vs a linked pic on Flickr:
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Welcome to the Buck subforum - great place to hang out, talk about, and learn much about Buck Knives.
hunterjrg
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Welcome. Post some pics and converse. There’s a lot of good people here