What knife got you hooked on bucks?

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For me, when I was a kid, a Buck was the Holy Grail of knives. When you saw someone with a sheath on, you just assumed "so and so" carried a Buck. Right after I graduated high school in 1988, I picked up my first Buck at a Wal-Mart. It was just a Bucklite 422, olive drab, that was the display and was on sale and the sheath had been seperated from it so it was just the knife only, no box or sheath. From what I know now, it was a pre-1988 Bucklite, it was new, just been in the store a few years. I carried that knife all the way up unit 2003, used it for everything from cleaning deer and fish. I wasn't really a knife person, so i never really looked at another knife since this one fit all of my needs. For 15 years, this was the only pocket knife I owned. I left it laying on the deck of my fishing boat after cleaning fish and someone took it.
I spent several years looking for a new favorite knife after losing my old bucklite. I like Swiss Army Knives and Bucks. About a year and a half ago, I found a 1988 Bucklite at a flea market that was really close to my original bucklite and that got me reinterested in Buck knive's. I don't do any of the auction sites or really consider myself a collector, but I'm always looking for a new favorite knife to edc and one that I'll like as much as my old favorite.
After going through several, I've been sticking with my Vantage since March.
I've got a 112 Ecolite Ranger on the way. I'm thinking that will be alot like an old Bucklite and I decided to get the red so maybe I won't lay it up and lose it.
 
A 1967[8?] Special.
A first production model 301 with a clip blade tang stamped 80T also helped things along.
 
The 186 Titan, a titanium version of the 110 with a removable (changeable) blade and a belt clip.
 
A 110 two-line, brass spacer butt-end (4th ed.?) circa early '70s, a 124 in January 1977, a quadruple purchase of a 119, 120, 116, and 121 in the summer of 1978.....hooked and never looked back! All still serviceable and the 124 has never missed a day riding in my daily-driver trucks through the years; thank you, Buck!
 
This.


Buck 110 by Pinnah, on Flickr

I pitched newspapers and worked in a bike shop to earn the money for it. Purchased through the Herters Catalog in the 1977 time frame. This, a Millet rucksack from the new REI catalog and a pair of LOWA hiking boots, I was ready for anything.

The testimony flyer sealed the deal. I hope Buck can find their way back to making solid, durable knives.
 
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This 112 started it in 1983 or so.
 
The testimony flyer sealed the deal.

I am glad you said that! Best foundation to build on..............

Dave
 
Fifteenth birthday present from my Grandma in late November 1970 - this Buck 301.

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Bought at this long gone hardware store - H. L. Hodges & Co., in Greenville NC.

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Buck 301 from Oshmans Sporting Goods in 1976. 12 years old with lawnmowing money burning a hole in my pocket. Best 12 bucks I ever spent.
 
Sorry to have started such a similiar thread so close together. I was on vacation over that time and I guess I missed it.
 
It was in Joslin's Hardware ( long gone mom and pop store), I would bring in the newspaper to the owner and gawk at that display of Bucks, and that 112 was like a beacon! Black ebony scales and gleaming brass...I had to have it. When I finally saved up the money the owner let me check them out, I wanted the one from the display because it was darker than the others, used that knife for everything through my teen years.
 
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