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Elm · #1 08-20-2010, 06:51 AM

I wonder if someone can help me.
I guess most survival knifes (with this kind of design) from the 80's are not quality knifes that you can actually use in field. If I get hold of this 184 model will it actually serve me as a serious camping through life if I don't directly mistreat it and try to keep it in good shape? I really dig the design of it.

If so do you have information how to keep a knife like this in good health?

Thanks,
LM

Mister Moon · #2 08-20-2010, 12:30 PM

... for the camping ? ... Here, one of the BEST : http://www.dartmoorknife.co.uk/

Elm · #3 08-20-2010, 07:37 PM

Thank you for the reply and suggestion. But by this do you mean that the Buck 184 will not do as a knife in field?

Thanks
LM

Mister Moon · #4 08-21-2010, 06:31 PM

...the 184 as we know, was made for the military, the war, not for the boys-scout... the profile, the line is directed to push, not to cut as a mexican-machete. And, as we also know, in "camping", it seems more useful to cut some wood that to drill a human body.

Elm · #5 08-22-2010, 03:41 PM

Haha sounds fair...

Mister Moon · #6 08-22-2010, 03:41 PM

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Dark Knight · #7 08-28-2010, 06:51 PM

Hunting, Camping, anything NOT just Military applications..
Besides Military applications are far more brutal Than most people would do. I have a friend who LOVES his BuckMaster to gut an elk as it cuts the breast bone like a charm...
The 425m steel was and is a BAD ass steel......
I have 5 detailed reports from Green Beret's that I will share in my BuckMaster book to be released later this year. THEY took this knife to the extreme in the 80's... It kicked the crud out of everything in that time for what it was.
If you have reservations buy a 185 ...Stong as hell

Just my 2 cents as I read this post was about survival knifes from the 80's...

Elm · #8 08-30-2010, 04:37 AM

Thanks! Im getting one... and your book when It comes out! ;-)