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Buck Knives Model 245 MWG, by Pat Cascio
You probably won’t find the new fixed blade Buck Model 245 MWG on the Buck® Knives Official Website list of their Hunting and Tactical Knives just yet, because it is so new; I received one of the first samples. Sure, a month or two ago, many websites released a press release– the same I received– on the Model 245 MWG Buck knife, but these sites do an injustice to the product and the reader, if you ask me, by simply posting a press release without actually testing the product.
Everyone is probably familiar with the most famous Buck folding knife on the market– their Model 110. I know a lot of folks in the knife industry, and I’m told that a very good knife design has a life of about three years. That means the buying public typically stops buying that knife design for whatever reason within that timeframe. The Model 110 started out in 1963. Yes, you read that right. It was in 1963, and this folding knife is still going strong. To be sure, the Model 110 is the most copied lock-back folding knife in the world, bar none! Many uninformed folks, who see any type of large, lock-back folding knife, will refer to it as “a Buck”. As many folks claim that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, if that’s true, then Buck Knives has been flattered for more than 50 years on the Model 110 alone. I won’t even go into some of Buck’s fixed blade hunting knives, which also have been copied by many companies.
There is some conjecture as to when “Buck Knives” actually started. I’ve gone ’round and ’round with one magazine editor about this. (I won’t mention his name, though.) Buck Knives claims they started in 1902, when Hoytt Buck made his first knife. Some claim Buck Knives didn’t start until WWII, when the call went out for folders and fixed blade knives for our troops. Some say Buck Knives started after WWI, and some say it didn’t really start until the 1960s. Look, if I started making knives 20 years ago and just today started calling myself “Cascio Custom Knives”, I would claim that even though I didn’t actually call myself a “company” I was still making knives 20 years ago. So, if Buck Knives says they started in 1902, that’s fine with me. Take the argument up with Buck and not with me. In the end, does it really matter when Buck Knives got their start?
I’m sure that many SurvivalBlog readers are big fans of the original “Red Dawn” movie, where a group of teens fight in WWIII as guerrillas, but did you really catch that when the group was evacuating the town and stopped at the gas station/general store before heading to the mountains some of them grabbed some Buck Knives? “Jed” is seen carrying a folding knife on his belt in most of the movie, and I’m guessing it was a Buck Knives Model 110.
Source: http://survivalblog.com/buck-knives-model-245-mwg-by-pat-cascio/
