I confess to having an affinity with this particular model from the vast Buck Knives range. Named the Woodsman, it’s one of the first fixed blade Bucks I ever bought and I’ve owned an example of this model since 1990. After more than three decades of using this knife in the field I feel confident to state that it would be an awfully hard task to find a better fixed blade for general duty camping, fishing or hunting work.
Around 1994, Buck switched from 425M steel to 420HC (meaning high-carbon) as the ‘basic’ blade steel for most of their entry level knives. These two steels are close to
