I love knives for a while and knew only one thing That Busses were hard to find and were $500 bones. I learned of swamprat and and finialy got to see them at Blade West 05 (thank you Troy), and got my Howling Rat. My first knife that I got that was was "expensive" ($89.00 iirc) Later that year Scrapyard ran their "from a rat infested nucular swamp..." adds in blade magizine and I went to the website about once a day to check it, I had been on bladefourms alot too. My dad happened to be up at some odd hour and saw that the Yard had opened he got a Scrapper 6 with an invoice # below 20. I was not too intrested at the moment and hunted for a Battle Rat. In Feb 06 I joined the fourm and ordered a Dogfather. Got an S6 by proxi from my Dad at Blade West 06 and my collection grows again when my S5 gets here. ohh and I made some good friends at the yard, and have had some good times too.