I got my folding hunter in 1973, and it too has a lot of deer behind it, and yet to come. Those new knives look pretty good, but it's hard to think of anything replacing what I've got.

My family has always had Buck knives but we've recently been disappointing with them since there all pretty much made in china now days. Buck knives are still quality knives but it a shame to see them being made over seas and put together with pop-rivets instead of screws and little things like that, that separate a good knife from a one you hold onto your whole life. After all i have no problem paying a little extra cash for something i know was put together in the US and assembled with quality.

I don't see how Buck stays in business. It must be tough with a product that never wears out or needs replacing. Maybe people give them as gifts after 50 years or so and then buy new?

My favorite knife is a Buck "Special" Hunter. It's fixed blade. I like the traditional look and good size. I have used it field-dress, skin, and partly process my deer. I will sometimes use it in the kitchen to cut up raw meet or even carve a bird.

I've got two folders like that. Never seen a blade stay as sharp or as long.

my mom has a few buck knives and so does my father but i am a gerber man myself

My favorite buck knife was a Case XX Buffalo knife, that I bought off of a man that didn't want to sell it. I carried it with me one day when I went fishing and instead of placing the knife back in my pocket I stuck it in the ground.

Someone had a nice find!

Phil's comments were heartwarming. However, must correct one reader's erroneous implication that almost all Buck knives are made overseas. First of all, every Buck hunting knife is Made in America. Second, while some Buck knives were made offshore, since Buck announced their "American Commitment" last year, they are bringing those back. As a matter of fact, all but one of their many new models for 2010 are made in the USA. One good result is that, to meet production growth, they anticipate a 10% increase in their Idaho work force.

I have bucks but they are too big to carry everyday in my pocket.I have a leatherman in a sheath on my belt but carry a yellow handle case trapper just like my father and grandfather.They are shavers,I have given them to my son in laws already.and have seen both of them cut by them.And told them this thing will cut you bad know watch it.

When I hear the name Buck fond memories come to mind. I was going to get the Hunter Ed Instructors that worked for me a small token and I called and got Steve Buck on the phone. I was surprised but over the next couple months we had several conversations and he gave me a special deal for my instructors. This was nice but the finest memory about Buck was several years ago I killed a 30 inch mule deer in Colorado and not have having an ax with me I used my 110 Buck knife and a rock.( Don't everyone call me dumb at one time). Needless to say when I looked at the knife blade it had a very nice large halfmoon chunk out of the blade. I figured a new blade would cost me plenty. I guess I could have lied about how it was the knife;s fault, but I wrote and told Buck exactly how it happened and would they please fix my knife and send me a bill. I received a new knife in the mail and a letter explaining how they were pleased about me telling the truth and there would be no charge. I was surprised then but after talking to Steve on the phone I am not surprised at all now. My wife just bought me a fixed blade rubber handle Buck and I tried it several times this deer season. It worked great. I have 2 110's, a 110 size with green plastic handles, a pocket knife. I don't know if 5 Bucks are enough but I'm sure they will make a new model that I just have to have. I have done business with many companies, but Buck has to rate at the top for being a fine company and standing behind their products.

One of my oldest knives is my Buck 110 Finger Grooved Hunter. I carried that knife on the job for years and cut lots of fabric and seat belts with it. I own dozens of knives (none from China), and no knife I know of has as perfect a grip as that knife. I hate to lend it to anyone, because everyone who uses it has to be talked into giving it back.

My first Buck knife was found on a river bank while I was steelhead fishing. It was a folding Stockman, and had peanut butter on the open blade. There were no other fishermen to be found, though I walked 1/2 mile up river looking for the owner. I carried that knife for 15 years, and finally broke the biggest blade while cutting the tape off of a large pipe because someone had cut a notch in the pipe, and the blade slipped into the cut under great force and snapped. As one has said, above, I sent it to Buck for a blade replacement, explaining exactly how it happened, and wrote very clearly that I would pay what ever cost was charged, Eight days later, a brand new Buck Stockman was in my mail box, accompanied by a letter of apology for the failure. Also,a very clearly worded note from The Chairman of the Board. I now own 2 110s, a little #309, the Stockman, a 4"skinner, and a 5"fixed blade hunter, and will not buy any brand of knife except a Buck. I carry the little 309 every day everywhere I go. I have skinned, gutted, quartered and boned a 5 point bull elk with a 110 without needing to resharpen. For my money Buck knives are the best.

My favorite knife is a Puma Plainsman with a hollow ground blade. I have had it a very long time, have never had the need to even think of buying a Buck.

Phil,
You are bringing back some memories there. My setup almost exactly that same year was a Bear Whitetail Hunter and that same knife. If you were a high schooler around here, you had to have you a knife like that. It was almost a rite of passage. Back then we could actually carry those to school around here.......
S GA

Buck knives are great, (at least the old ones) I've had about 5 and still have a couple fixed blades, a #121 that I got from the BX (30 odd years ago) and one of the ones half the size. I had one of those big Buck Survivor knives with the Rambo sawback and the hollow handle. A guy at my Dojo joined the Marines and was going to the Sandbox so I gave it to him. Figured he was going in harms way and might need a honkin' big knife. Only the best for Our Boys (and girls). I also had an Esquire folder but that got stole.
I like my Buck knives but I like my Damascus blades better, While the Bucks are stainless and the Damascus ain't, still that dendritic cutting effect makes folded steel rule!

My first hunting knife was a Buck Folding Hunter. It went with me everywhere I went except church. Sorry to say but I tried to use the knife as a pry bar and guess what...

Since then I've owned many different brands but for some reason I shyed away from Buck products. A little over 10 years ago my wife gave me a buck Vanguard as a gift. A month or so later I was on a feral hog hunt. The hunting was good and in the first day and a half I gutted and skinned 5 nice hogs without sharpening or steeling the knife. The knife shrugged off all the grit and mudd attached to those hogs as well as the gristle. It wouldn't shave anymore but it still had another hog left in it when I put it to the stone.

Since then I've been a Buck Fan and currently own about 15 Buck Knives of various descriptions.

Phil, seeing that old Cobra brings back some memories!

Tom

You catch more fish with shiny lures! Foxworthy said the same thing about rednecks and glitter finishes on bass boats! LOL

You guys are KILLING me here. Back in December Petzal wrote about the ErgoHunter fixed blade. So of course I had to go buy one. It's a great knife. I'm glad I bought it. Now this! There goes another $170! Why don't you guys review some crap items so I can save a little money? HaHa.

My rule of thumb for knives is "B or B" Buck or Benchmade. That's just a general rule of thumb though. I own other brands. If you pick it up, it feels good, appears to be well made... I'll probably buy it. I've never bought a Buck I didn't like. Great knives. Now it looks like I have to add another to my stash.

I have to admit, my first hunting knife was a Case sheath knife handed down from my dad, still got it but have 2 Bucks for hunting now, a Buck Lite and it's bigger brother, which I guess are no longer made as I checked their website and nothing.

My first "deer knife" was a Buck too !

Knives like guns, so workand feel right others don't do either. I;ve carried a pocket knife since I ws about 7=8n ys old.Raised on a Tobacco farm, a kife ws a must. Ny fist pocket knife was a Case and as a cary for all purposes I still carry a Case. I did collect knive,until they got like guns, cost to much.
For a Hunting sheaft knife I go witha MArbles. My Uncle gave me one in l944 while ws sick. Ive caried that gun for over 60myrs until 2 yrs ago, saw that Marles has returned to production. I ordereda new one like what I had and put the older one in the safe, I love the Marbles,as I prefer Carbon to SS.Most of the knives now don;t even lok like a knife, if had a blade would swear was a piece of junk from the junk man. I can;t get SS to stay sharp, with the Marbles, once it's sharp it stays shart thru atleast one cleaninf job on deer. Never owned a Buck, so wan;t say anything about them. Bit Knive ae loking like what some of the rifle stocksae becoming to lok like. I want a gun stock to look like beautiful Walnut, even with the dents and dings. A warm wet cloth and a Iron or heating rod ( pinted like a pencl) held ovr the dent for a few seconds, will help restorer the dent well. I'm a old foggy, just beginning to think Syn sock is a gun stock. I bought a B/P gun with Syn sock and love it, also just boght a new XL7 MArlin in my first ever 270 and Nikon scope and t shots as wellas my 700 CDl out to 100 yds, then the 700 out shinesfrom 100 yds on to 400. These gys who zero for 100 yds wanting to shoot 200 or more, had best shoot and zero at 200 yds,as guns and bulles beyond 100 yds act different than the l00 yd zero.I don't by this 2" high at 100 yds and I dead on center at 200.Not so, the wind will change all that in 100 yds and beyond. I Zero all my Westrn uns at 200+1", then on a fairly calm day will be about 3" low at 400 yds. If you gonna spend thousands, for gods sake shoot that gun at 200 or 300 yds and nae sue its on he money,as few shots at l00 yds or less out in the rockies.Plus I use a l80 gr bullet tohelpwith the problem.As a rule it'salways windy in the Rockies,except very early and very late.Lastly buy a range finder if you going, whats 2-300 bucks compaed to a 5K Elk hunt.Also, buy the best Ammo you can that shoos wel in your gun. Now, buy a good knife to clean the Elk be it a Buck, or a Old Kitchen knife OLd Hickory and go to a shoe store and have the guy to take a piece of leather and make you a sheath for it.ts the best knife all round for skinning a animal.

got a 110 folding hunter for Christmas in 1996. lost it a couple years after that. Always wanted to replace it, but i'm sad to see that they are going for $76 a piece now.

I have had three Buck Knives and that is about what they are worth, $3.00. Two sit in the shop waiting for someone to give them to. I just haven't had anyone that I didn't like come by lately. I have switched over to Boker and am pleased with them.

Got my first bow in 1964 and first buck knife about 1972. There have been many of both since then the latest is a new Mathews Z-7 and the Buck fixed blade Ergo Petzal wrote about last year. Both are excellent. You can't go wrong buying either IMO.

When I hear the name Buck fond memories come to mind. توبيكات ماسنجر I was going to get the Hunter Ed Instructors that worked for me a small token and I called and got Steve Buck on the phone. I was surprised but over the next couple months we had several conversations and he gave me a special deal for my instructors. منتديات مسجات وسائط This was nice but the finest memory about Buck was several years ago I killed a 30 inch mule deer in Colorado and not have having an ax with me I used my 110 Buck knife and a rock.( Don't everyone call me dumb at one time). Needless to say when I looked at the knife blade it had a very nice large halfmoon chunk out of the blade. I figured a new blade would cost me plenty. I guess I could have lied about how it was the knife;s fault, but I wrote and told Buck exactly how it happened and would they please fix my knife and send me a bill. I received a new knife in the mail and a letter explaining how they were pleased about me telling the truth and there would be no charge. I was surprised then but after talking to Steve on the phone I am not surprised at all now. My wife just bought me a fixed blade rubber handle Buck and I tried it several times this deer season. It worked great. I have 2 110's, a 110 size with green plastic handles, a pocket knife. I don't know if 5 Bucks are enough but I'm sure they will make a new model that I just have to have. I have done business with many companies, but Buck has to rate at the top for being a fine company and standing behind their products.