It amuses me how many say "best" and "not the best" like their experience ordains it as law for all to adhere to. I love it when I'm told serrations and the extended pommels are useless. Then when I name the ways I use those exact design elements, those same people no longer have any comment. Its great if you like to limit yourself, don't push it on others. Different designs can serve different purposes.
This whole commentary of how the Busse forum is "cultish", "religious" and so on is so annoying. If you don't have a hobby your dedicated to and are really in to talking about, poor you!:jerkit: If you don't have friends, familiars, acquaintances and frenemies to discuss how much you like something and share the experience with, again, poor you!:jerkit: So you don't like people who get along and are very social, go join the rest of the teenage angst generation of wannabe misfits. Just because you feel uncomfortable with a group of people really feeling strong dedication to something doesn't make it cult. Welcome to Western Civilization.

One last thing for this post. If Busse was just for collecting and not any good for actual field use, then how come there are so many of us using them? I've stated before, I have used Western, Cold Steel, SOG, Benchmade,Strider (just to name a few) effectively, but I now choose to use Busse. I didn't say my knives are better than anybody else's, so maybe it's just me, since I am completely capable of obtaining (I didn't say purchase), using and maintaining these blades that are just hype.