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Love the pattern, the pulls are probably too heavy for me.
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Sometimes you can get a sweet knife for not a lot of money. Before and after a Flitz bath. This was a SFO for Hunting magazine, in the 70s. I still need to work on an edge, but it fits in with some of my other small fixed blades (group photo shown).
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Received this Monday from the Legend from North Dakota and it was quite a shock to me . Completely unexpected and for no other reason than Paul Hilborn just being the guy that he is . Some of you know by now that I have a meager collection of Barlows and that my real passion is knives with Stag Covers . This one really checks both boxes . It is the best Popcorn Stag that I now have and I am a happy guy .
Sorry that I had to wait to get some decent pictures in sunlight buy it is what it is .
It is an Old Cutler that someone has re-covered with some much better covers than the originals . These are some thick Stag covers too .
Thank you very much my friend .
Harry
I’d say a pretty decent mailcall today...
This well used/loved beauty is a Camillus made 303 circa 71’-74’ so the 3rd of the 4 versions they produced for Buck.
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The difference between the modern Buck 303/301 and the Camillus ( my favorite) version is night and day. Don’t get me wrong the new ones are quality work knives but they lack not only a decent ( stronger) pull but they lack any character or soul to the design that I’m sure doesn’t matter to anybody outside of this forum but matter a great deal to me.Emspop I really need to just bite the bullet and pick me up one of those older buck stockman. Probably a 301.
I bought a recent make a few months ago and it just didn’t do it for me, didn’t last long in the pocket. The snap, while adequate, was way lighter than I like and the sheeps foot is in the wrong place.
Those old (Camillus?) versions look like fantastic users. Keep the pictures coming!