Picked up a pair of my first knives from Scrap Yard knives, two dumster mutts. I love them and will be using them for everything outdoors. I also just discovered bladeforums.com and it seems nobody actually uses their Busse knives. Now i love collecting knives, i have a rather large Japanese chef knife collection. But every knife i own from 20 to 1000 dollars gets used and abused. It just seems funny to own a Busse combat knife and not use it. That just my two cents, plus i live in the sticks up here in VT. Anyone else have five feet of snow outside thier door. So much for the earth warming up.