i only bought benchmade,until i found swamp rat!which led me to busse...& now im here!

before i found the 'Yard, one could find me on tree climbing and chainsaw sites, fishing sites, etc. I have collected knives though for quite some time.......all users. (the concept of buying a knife and wearing nitrile gloves while handling it and then putting it on a shelf seems funny to me......for gods sake use the [censored] thing!)

Holy Smokes! I just remembered it was Noss and his crazy tests that brought me to the Yard!

Now I see a little more into this whole Test Team thing...

i luckly stumbled on it uite early i was just looking for some all around good reliable knives and found the swamprat site and not knowing who to use it at all so just forgot about it for a year, but then i found busse and this fourm and every thing started to make since. the only problem now is finding the money to support the addiction

I have always like steel, grew up around my grandfather which was a talented wood carver. However, my love was folders and balisongs. I still love folders and balisongs but my taste for larger and user blades have just recently took off. I love the SY's and Swamp Rat that I have and look forward to adding many more in the future. I do have some nice knives but the SY are by far the best money value that I have seen.

I got my first thousand posts on Rat Chat.

this is my first on a knife company so i love it i dont think that there is anything better than what i have seen and done on here cause i dont think that there is really any thing that you can ask what ever and get this many posts on that can really help you out <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

It was rifles before this.

The Dog Father sucked me in. The rest is history. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I am new to the yard and have enjoyed my time here so far. I discovered the Yard and Busse on the Knifetests.com site watching Noss do his tests. That was a great site and I'm so glad it brought me here. I also started collecting folders before finding the yard and even though I haven't had the opportunity to purchase many SY knives yet, I have been buying other fixed blades - more than folders which is surprising. I did get a DFCG and have several S5's on the way so I'm happy about that. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Before the Yard I had alot more time to use my knives <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

Ive always loved knives even from a young age. My dad bought me my first knife when i was like 5 or 6 it was some cheap knock off swiss army knife but i loved it. When i got into my teens i was a huge Smith & Wesson floder lover ( don't laugh haha )

My uncle works for our local police department and told me alot of the cops and swat team carry them. So naturally i thought they where the best. Then i got into guns and would read alot of gun mags. Thats when i found out about cold steel. I always thought there knives where to pricey and never got one.

One day i was browsing around the net and found Bladeforum. I started reading up and found out about scrapyard knives and quickly fell in love with the S6. At the time the only models that where out was the S4 , DogFather and S6. For about 4 months i kept on checking the SY store to see when the S6 would be ready to order. I had no idea how things worked. Then i decided to post on the forum to see what the hell was going on haha. And from then on i got sucked into the yard. I never got my S6 but i did manage to score a DM. The happiest day of my life lol. Soon after i was lucky enough to score a DogFather from when Dan had a few from a military over run. Soon after i got into Ranger knives and have read up on alot of other makers.