Where has your Buck knife traveled?

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Do you take a Buck knife with you when you travel? I'd like to know some of the exotic, unusual, or interesting places that you have taken a Buck knife. Last year, I posted a photo of my 112 in Monument Valley, Arizona. This year, we're going to hunt down ghost towns in Colorado. Sounds like a trip for my 124 or maybe just my 110.

So let's hear where your knife has been. Needless to say, photos are always welcomed. :)
 
For interesting places, Afghanistan, Jordan, Luxembourg, Korea, and Honduras; I'm sure I'm missing some. Sorry no pics, I'm bad about those things, need to get better.
 
I still have the 110 I carried during most of the 8 years I spent in the United States Navy. It's been to Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, the Marshall Islands, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Republic of the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Japan and Thailand.

After leaving the Navy my 110 and I traveled through and or worked in every state with the exceptions of Vermont, Rhode Island and Alaska. Also the Canadian Provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario
 
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Nowhere exotic by most accounts. Lots of places in the US, though. From coast to coast. Pacific NW, all over the mountains and plains of Colorado by foot/horse/car, Alaska from Seward to Prudhoe Bay, North Carolina from mountains to coast, all up and down the Eastern Seaboard, fishing in the Gulf of Mexico and off the California Channel Islands.

1970s 110, 1990s 112, and lately a 2010s 112 Ecolite.

Zieg

PS . . . Heck, forgot all about the 301. It's a bit less well travelled, but I think I may have carried that when I was at Oxford University in UK, Trinity Term 1994. And that long trip to Islay in the western isles to visit the Laphroaig distillery.

Zieg
 
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I have traveled quite a bit and always have my 303 in my pocket. About 10-12 years ago I was at the Raleigh-Durham airport and got pulled over by the TSA. i had forgotten to put my 303 in checked through luggage and security was going to confiscate it. They considered it a dangerous weapon. After having it in my pocket for roughly 25 years, I decided that wasn't going to happen. I ran back to the airline ticket counter (I think it was Delta,) and they put it in a box (probably 6"x10"x4") to ship it through as luggage and got back barely in time for boarding. It all worked out, but I was ready to cancel my ticket (My wife had other ideas.).

Bert
 
I got this notification when I was visiting some caves in Logan Ohio! So here is one of the Buck knives I always carry! I have lots of awesome pictures, but the rest I will share on the SPS!
 
Let's see...I had a 112 and a 102 when I was a scout in Alaska...carried one or the other on every outdoor adventure, great knives. Joined the AF and brought along a Bucklite to many places--Greenland, Saudi Arabia, Korea, and several state-side field exercises. Darn tough knife. For my last deployment, I also packed a 307, and it found its way into my pocket many a day.
 
Lets see, some highlights, had one when I missed a big bull elk at 50 yards, on a near timberline brushy area (shooting bent over using the wrong eye trying to find a hole in the brush) on Scapegoat mountain, south of the Bob Marshall wilderness area of Montana; under the raft after it turned upside down in the Big Drop rapid of Cataract canyon on the Colorado River in Utah (the toilet came loose and hit me in the head giving me a scar I don't usually tell how I got) and a cave he says, deep in a Ozark cave, where the passage was so tight I had to take off my hard hat and pack and push them ahead of me as we were counting endangered bats. Or the time........(I gave up bat counting back when I turned 50 and my knees went on strike.)

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Didn't want to leave you with just hot air. Here is a photo of one in a Kansas flat spot. I been to a couple of spots flatter.
 
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You gents have carried your Buck knives to some exotic places, that I can't touch. Still, I'll take a back seat and post mine. In this photo I'm holding my single dash stamped 110 Buck-lite. While drying out and cooking us some summer sausage on the banks of the Gila River, 18 miles in the wilderness. For 3 days and nights we saw no other humans. The nearest we came to man were ancient drawings on cliff walls, hundreds of years old. DM
 
I didn't carry my 303 to any exotic places, but I did carry it while traveling around the united states. This was during the time I could put stuff out of my pocket on a small tray while I walked through the metal detector. No one ever questioned it back then.
 
I also have a well used 303 (now retired) that went to a lot of places while I was in the Air Force. As GoJoJo said, it was back when you just dumped your pocket in a small tray and it was no problem.
 
I am not quite sure what David is trying to dry out......nice wood pile in background he dragged up...ha
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Those 2 sleeping bags and my pants. Plus, some hot coffee at that time would help. It was 30* every morning as we pushed the canoe into the water. We tried to make it one hour before some rapids swamped us. It takes a hearty soul to right the boat, get back in and keep going. I broke my oar the first day and I made one with my hatchet. DM
 
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David Martin said:
Those 2 sleeping bags and my pants. Plus, some hot coffee at that time would help. It was 30* every morning as we pushed the canoe into the water. We tried to make it one hour before some rapids swamped us. It takes a hearty soul to right the boat, get back in and keep going. I broke my oar the first day and I made one with my hatchet. DM
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Nice work with the hatchet! At first glance, I thought you made one heck of a rifle stock.
 
I've been carrying my small Vantage Select in my life jacket when I go kayaking. A few of the places it's accompanied me since:

Shipwreck in Tomales Bay:
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Under the Golden Gate Bridge:
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Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay:
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With gray whales in Monterey Bay:
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With porpoises near Sausalito:
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The Buck Vantage is grrr-eat!
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Okay, I'm posting my Monument Valley photo again, just because I enjoy seeing it. :D


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Bridger Wilderness, WY, I have carried a Buck 120 the last 2 summers during fishing trips to the Wind River Mountains. This year I will change it up and use my Remer/Stone Customized 188. I will be sure to take some pictures!!

 
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