Yep, the natives are getting restless.

I'm confident that SR will be back and stronger than ever... at least I hope so. To quote Mark Twain, "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated".

Maybe the Rodent line is a line of heavy duty tactical folders and the 154cm would fit the bill pretty well.These would sell like crazy to the soldiers,and its one area of the Busse-kin brands that hasn't been really been fully explored.The Swamprat brand may end up being strictly folders.Who really needs mid-priced busse kin blades,why not have the high end knives the bargain priced knives and a line of quality folders to compliment them.

The Swamp isn't dead, it's only sleeping! It's pining for the fjords I tell you.

Seriously tho, I suspect that given the economy not pushing 3 lines of blades in competition with each other for expensive production resources probably makes a lot of sense. You sell your high volume knives and sell your premium high margin knives and don't worry about the stuff in the middle of the line. Jerry, Dan, and Jennifer know their business...you have to give them some credit and benefit of the doubt. Yes, it would be nice if they communicated their (temporary?) change in strategy should that be the case.

I guess I'm like Vic, when the Swamp offers a new knife I look/buy, when they don't I spend my burning-a-hole-in-my-wallet dollars elsewhere. Otherwise, I just don't stress about it. This knife buying thing is supposed to be fun people.

As the song says "Don't worry, be happy" <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

swamprat is my favorite among the 3 companies.i just love what they do with 52100 and i love their designs,the CW & CA are my two favorites and the HRLM & RMD are homeruns,i could go on and on.

it doesnt seem to me like anyone owns swamprat anymore.and also,they have their own version of a renee or amy-o,its eric isnt it??

i hate speculating but.............

if all 3 share the same shop sometimes someones gonna have to sit one out and warm the bench.

can dan just start producing knives whenever he wants or does it all have to be worked out between jerry and what BC & SR are currently doing??...i dont know.

it's always been MY GUESS that jerry decides what comes out,when and from who and if things are anything like this then family politics must come into play.

i mean since jerry and jennifer are a couple they get payed whether its BC or SR selling the knives right??again i'm speculating but most couple dont entirely split their incomes.

its 3 companies,2 families,jerry and jennifer & dan and patty and it might be hard to have all 3 actively running at once so they may take turns.

so if at least BC or SR is up and running both jerry and jennifer busse should be o.k. based on MY SPECULATION and the BC line probably brings in more $$ than the SR line so SR fans suffer.

it seems to me like swamprat really slowed down when scrapyard came around.

SY & SW seem to have dry spells for no apparent rhyme or reason in true busse style.i hope their not dead and i hope the days of high carbon,larger pieces arent over.

if they did a quick run for a year or so of neat little stainless pieces i wouldnt mind as long as its not permanent.

Well, KG's point about SR101 being very close to Infi for less money seems the case with my RMD...the edge on this cuts as well and lasts as well as you could ever want and is so close to Infi for me that I don't notice any difference. 52100 steel is the choice of steel of many knifesmiths over here for their own knives...guys who make a living churning out Bushcrafters in all types of steel.

Infi probably comes into it's own on the larger knives but even then it is a case of what do you use them for? To seperate them Concrete and Breeze Blocks probably have to be used as a chopping "medium" and I just don't do that.

Maybe now is the time to pick up secondary SR knives before they become rarer than the Busse's and start matching them on prices?

You know that I am not trying to be the Doomsayer of the Swamp, I just want someone official (the Bully?) to speak up and at least tell us everything is OK.

some are very rare, try to get a first generation howler with the smaller choil <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> took me about 6 months of reading the exchange a couple of times per week until I saw one offered, price was good too.

Haha! The swamp is dead, deceased, demised.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

The Swamp will rise again! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />