Dan,

I have owned well over 60 Busse (Scrap Yard, Swamp Rat, and Busse Combat) knives, and have loved them all. However, there is one design that has never been produced and is desperately needed by those of us to work and play outdoors.

I've owned:

- Scrapivores
- Swamp Wardens
- Rodent Solutions
- 311's
- 411's
- Hog Muk LE
- 511's
- Dumpster Mutt CG's
- Dumpster Mutt DC's
- Urban Mutt
- Scrapper 5CG's
- Scrapper 5LE's
- Ratmandu's
- Tank Buster
- ASH-1 .32"
- ASH-1 .22"
- ASH-1 .187"
- SJTAC CG's
- SJTAC ETS's
- SJTAC SF-1 MO's
- 711's
- Mil Regulators
- Son of a Dogfathers
- Chopweilers
- NMSFNO's
- NMFSH's
- Dogfathers
- OTHERS I can't immediately recall

All of these designs were great, and I enjoyed owning every one of them. However, there has never been a skeleton bush or camp craft knife offered (the Scrapivores and Wardens are a little too small for what I'm proposing....begging for really).

Those of us that spend time outdoors for work or play (I do both) need a simple, lightweight, ergonomic skeleton knife for all of those "unromantic" chores like:

- cutting vegetables from our gardens
- capping a deer
- gutting a squirrel or rabbit
- clipping the wings off a dove
- cutting fruit from our trees and slicing it to see if its ready for harvest
- cutting cordage for use around our homesteads
- processing a chicken harvested from our flock
- cutting vegetables at the farmers market
- cutting boxes up
- setting snares
- making fuzzy sticks
- prepping bait for the catfish troutline
- pruning back a bramble that won't "train" properly
- etc

After years of armchair and field evaluation I've concluded that a person needs a minimum of two knives in the field. One small enough for most chores and one large enough for everything else. Based upon what I've learned from 29 years of hunting, camping, fishing, gardening, etc the "ideal" specs would be:

Blade Length = 4.0"
Blade Thickness = Same as or 1/32" thicker than the Scrapivore
Blade Material = SR101 (best slicing steel I've used)
Blade Grind = Full Flat
Blade Shape = SLIGHT Drop Point with medium to medium-large depth belly
Blade Finish = Painted or Satin
Handle Design = Ergonomic Skeleton (no pry bar please)
Handle Finish = Painted or dipped in rubber tool coating (don't warranty the rubber coating if you're concerned about it)
Sheath = Mashed Cat pancake like the one you offered with the Scrapivore

This "Bush Scrapper" or "Campivore" would be ideally suited for all of those chores that don't need the size and thickness of a 411 or bulk of a RES-C handled offering.

Basically this would be a "necker" on steroids or an easy to carry belt knife. (I'll do both and piggy back one to my larger field knives). A knife that you'd have a hard time explaining why you didn't have it with you in the hunting field or woods, in the garden or out in your yard.

If you decide to offer these I'll take the first eight out the door, please!