Your Very First Buck

Bought a 119 in 89 or 90 when I started bow hunting. Still have it and still love it.



The only other buck I have is a recently purchased 715.



I'll get a 110 at some point but I have a mint USA made lb7 so that kind of scratches that itch

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I still have my first two knives, a 110 and 112. The 110 is fresh from the Spa. There are to many stories to tell but here's a pic.
 
The Buck I claim as my first is a 303 purchased at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in 1972 for my dads 63rd birthday. I now have that knife. When I retire next month I plan to carry it daily as he did.
 
First Buck I owned and still have is a Buck 501 Squire. I bought it around the late 1980's early 1990's. The blade was sharpened by a coworker that worked a lumber mill that screwed it up. So now the blade is about a 1/16" shorter and about 1/8" narrower than when it first came from the factory:(. Oh, well. That's when I started learn to sharpen my own knives after that fiasco. I still have the knife and now I'm thinking of having the blade replaced by Buck.
 
bucksway said:
I love giving Bucks to family and good friends but my father in law will not give one but will demand a nickel or dime. .West Virginia folklore?
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I believe the tradition is, give a knife for free and it might sever the relationship. Therefore the custom is to receive a small token in return, a penny, nickel, dime or whatever. No idea where it started...
 
Before I found this site I was not into knives at all. I was tired of my crappy knife, so I was thinking it might be nice to get a decent knife for a change. I started thinking about the 110 only because I watched a YouTuber (Billstmaxx) receive a finger groove 110 from one of his viewers. I remembered that video from almost two years ago now, and started looking on Amazon to get a baseline idea of different knives. I looked at the 110 first. That's all I needed. :D After reading the enormous amount of positive reviews I ordered one and eagerly awaited its arrival. Prior to receiving the 110 I ordered, a family member heard I was looking for a knife. He gave me a bunch of his old knives (a few days before my 110 arrived), which included a 2-dot 112. I had my 110 now for about a year. I ordered it sometime in November. My 110 would have been my first Buck had it not been for a plucky 2-dot 112 that I was given. I sent that one back to Buck for the spa treatment and it's as good as new now. Since getting those two Bucks, I have added an Alaskan Guide 110, and two Spitfires (a normal one and an SKBlades one). My Buck family is at a healthy 5 members and I'm always on the lookout for the next one. :D

I wanted to use the 110 for EDC purposes, but after getting the Spitfire I use that now. I just love the Spitfire. I do use the 110 every so often. It does a great job cutting homemade bread. :D
 
Blue Sky said:
I believe the tradition is, give a knife for free and it might sever the relationship. Therefore the custom is to receive a small token in return, a penny, nickel, dime or whatever. No idea where it started...
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I can see where this makes sense, particularly when the person receiving the knife cuts themselves and blames you. Making them pay for it shifts the responsibility. I gave a knife as a present last year and immediately realized I needed to provide some just in time training too. Close call.
 
I do not know where this tradition of giving a coin for a knife originated but I can tell you that it has spred far and wide.
My wife is generally not a superstitious person always makes sure that when ever I give a knife as a gift the recipient has a coin to give in return.
She grew up in Fort Smith N.W.t.
I have no idea where she heard this and she does't recall herself.
 
A Buck 110, given to me by my parents, sometime in the mid to late 1960's.
 
Buck 301, gift from my Grandmother, early 1970's (still have it). OH

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Back in the spring of 1975. I figured out that some cutting tasks were easier done with a bigger bland than your standard slip joint had. Thinking that running around with a fixed blade hunting knife strapped to my hip all the time, would likely be frowned upon by most people, I decided to get a folding lock blade hunting knife. In the stores local to me I had two choices. The Buck 110 for $22. Or a liner lock knife made by Schrade, probably the Old Timer 250T, for about $10. I chose the Schrade/Old Timer. By that fall the pivot joint on that knife had gotten so loose, that I was afraid the blade might be able to slip past the liner lock. So I gave it to a kid (teenager) I worked with, and bought this Buck. For the next 20 years that knife went everywhere that I did. I have worn out at least 3 and probably 4 leather sheaths. I don't carry it much any more. It has been replace by a new 110 with a nickle silver frame, a drop point blade of s30v, and orange wood scales. Still if you ever hear me say my Buck, it's the old 1975 110 I'm talking about. We have been through a lot together.

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My first Buck was a #103 Skinner (hence the screen name :D). That was when I was 18, back in 1975. Bought it at Sears.
I saw it in a "Alaska Sleeping Bag Co." catalog, and just had to have it, a trait I haven't yet outgrown!
 
A 110 for me and than a 119...
Then a 422OD Bucklite with a green
camo sheath when they first came out
on the market... That's what got me
here...

:) :eek: :)
 
TAH said:
Photo? :)
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Sorry. I left it in storage, along with a lot of other knives, when we moved overseas. One day I will get back there and get it out. I just did not want to take the chance of losing it in a foreign country as most places are not as stable as the USA (in spite of our problems).
 
Buck 301 Stockman purchased at Oshmans Sporting Goods at the mall sometime in either 1975 or '76 when I was 12 or 13 years old. I think I paid around $15.00 for it with lawn mowing money. I had seen the ads in Field and Stream magazine and just thought the stainless steel blades and black saw-cut handles were it! I carried that knife through school and it was in my pocket on my wedding day in December '85. Sadly I lost that knife to a thief in 1993 when that lowlife broke into my house. I carry a 2012 303 in my pocket now most days and have picked up several more Bucks totaling about 18 or so since those days. I did not get a 110 'til I was 49 years old! There is a simple beauty in my minds eye in the 100 and 300 series that keeps me hooked vs. the shoebox full of Case knives that I rotate in and out of my pocket. My favorite? All of them I guess.
 
My first Buck was a 301 that I inherited around 1984-85. It was my stepdads.I remembered he used it for everything. He use to sit in the living room and use a razor strop to sharpen it.


That knife really started my love for Buck knives. Up until that time I had a lot of different cheaper knives. I carried that knife for years. My second Buck knife was a little 309 Late 80's. It was stolen in school my senior year (1990) from the gym locker :( . I keep searching the bay for an older made (Buck made) 309 . My third Buck was 110 I received 1987 for Christmas after wanting a 110 for years. I thought I had finally arrived. It was stolen from my grandparents house one day when we were going on a church activity. I knew who did it but didn't have proof. :( I still get a little bitter over that one.


Okay, I know you asked for first and I gave you my first three. But I'm working on my first cup of coffee so I'm rambling.
 
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