Slugrusher
Junior Member
- Joined
- Oct 15, 2010
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When did they start issuing Buckmasters? The only thing I ever saw by them was when they tried to replace the bayonet with that over sized hunk of metal.
Well, there were only 54 of them issued to the people in our unit. It was 1992 and we headed to Bahrain. Spent 9 months sweating our rears off, then came back home. The XO ordered them, academy guy, good guy, just no common sense. He saw it in a Cabellas catalog or something, thought it was a good idea. It stayed in my locker in Florida, never left the States. It's rediculously heavy and frankly we had NO use for them. Gerber multi-tool worked best for our needs.
And after some thought, there's no way I'd get rid of it or modify it. It's too cool. I may put it in one of the shadow boxes.