Boss HOG Badger Coming This Friday, 4-25-2025 At 9:00 PM Eastern!!!

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Boss HOG Badger Coming This Friday, 4-25-2025 At 9:00 PM Eastern!!!

This easy to carry drop point design features a robust .210" thick blade and carries with it the fine lineage of the Busse HOG Badger.

The shallow belly in the handle of the Boss HOG Badger allows for a more versatile purchase in standard, reverse, and inverted grip positions.

The Boss HOG Badger features Hand Smoothed Handles that feel like they were formed in your hand!

The Boss HOG features a super slicey, Full-Height Flat Ground Bevel which reduces the carry weight and increases the versatility of applications.

FIRST TIME EVER!!! . . . There will be 4 optional choils available on the Boss HOG Badger as pictured below. For the first, and possibly, ONLY time, we are making all of these different choil options available at no extra charge!

There will be 3 different blade finishes available including a hand-applied Satin finish, a Stonewashed finish, and a Coated finish.

This new model will go "LIVE" on the Busse Combat website this Friday, 4-25-2025, at 9:00 PM Eastern.

Let's Drink!

Jerry

What is the Good Faith Discount (GFD) ???

If you order from the line drawing only, you will be rewarded with a Good Faith Discount" (GFD).

Once the pics of the actual knife are posted, the GFD will no longer be available!!!

You will have to use your imagination to envision what the finished product is going to actually look like!

The finished Boss HOG Badger should be fairly close to the drawing since this is the first step in the production of the killer cool Boss HOG Badger!

So, what is the GFD and how much will I actually save???

If you get in early enough and score one with the Good Faith Discount, your prices will be as follows!!!

Boss HOG Badger Base Price:
[ ] Hand-Applied Satin = $437.00 GFD = $397.00 (You save $40.00!!!)
[ ] Stonewashed = $397.00 GFD = $367.00 (You save $30.00!!!)
[ ] Coated = $367.00 GFD = $347.00 (You save $20.00!!!)

Boss HOG Badger Specs:
Blade Length: Approx. 7.6"
Over All Length: Approx. 12.6"
Thickness: Approx. 210"
Steel: INFI
Hardness: 58-60 Rc
Bevel: Full-Height Flat
Handle Material: Optional
Finish: Optional

Blade Finish Options:
Hand applied Satin, Stonewashed, and Coated

Handle Options:
Black Canvas (Included in base price)
Tan Canvas (Included in base price)
Green Canvas (Included in base price)

Black G10 + $30.00
Multi-Colored G10 + $45.00
Nuclear Option: + $60.00

NUCLEAR Handle Option:*

*The Nuclear Handle Option is not for the faint of heart but rather for those bacon-loving HOGs who do not fear the unknown!!!
The Nuclear option on the Boss HOG Badger is a grab bag of sorts. You will receive a randomly selected handle from a pile of Nuclear Castoffs.
This pile of handles has many hand-laminated G10 and Micarta slabs as well as some solid colors not normally offered!
This option does not allow you to choose your handle!!!! . . . You do not get A CHOICE! You will get whatever you get by the blind luck of the draw! It is a veritable PORKpourri of oddball handle materials! The Nuclear Option will also include the Busse Custom Shop logo. The Nuclear Option Handles are available on Coated, Stonewashed, and Comp Finished blades.

Nobody likes whine with their bacon, so we have implemented a "No returns/No whine clause"!
There are no returns on the Nuclear Option. . . .

So, you can either play it safe or you can go where only the bravest of HOGs have gone before with the Nuclear Option . . . . to PORKpourri and beyond!!!!


Here are the line drawings of the Boss HOG Badger with all optional choils.

Boss HOG Choils.jpg
 
The Hog Badger is one of my favorite busses of all time in the medium/small range! Definitely in for one! That being said, put me in the camp of the guys that do not appreciate the large ricasso on the no choil option. I would buy a half dozen of these or more and of similar sized resc models like the Alpha Dog 6 if the cutting edge could start up closer to the handle. I know I’m not the only one. Still, I absolutely cannot like/love enough the options Busse Combat is offering us these days! 😍 We get to choose blade finish/coating, handle material/colors and from different resc designs that we know and trust, and now recently even our own choil option on some blade models! That is truly incredible tailor-made customer service from a great American company who is trying to get their customers what they want! I love it and thanks for all the options Jerry Busse Jerry Busse
 
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360joules said:
I may have to go for one of these. That said, I do wish the no choil/small choil had less ricasso. I may have to get a large choil on this one.
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I agree. And the flat choil contours look weirdly asymmetrical. Only way to counter all that visually is to go with the large choil. Wish they’d kept the small choil design from the original Hog Badger—that one looked right. All that said, the large choil version is a very good looking knife and the same price in satin as the original Hog Badger (which had 1.7” less blade). And that was over seven years (and a lot of inflation) ago. At least it’s not a saw back. 😎
 
I’m hoping there’s a bit of optical illusion going on with these line drawings. The CAD operator used two lines to depict the plunge grind, one to show the plunge cut at the surface of the ricasso and another line just forward of that, I assume to show the slope of the cut down to the beginning of the primary grind surface. On the large choil model drawing, if I cover that forward line it mitigates the visual impression that the ricasso is too wide—still wide but not THAT wide. Maybe wishful thinking, but it’s working for me. 😄
 
Ironic said:
I agree. And the flat choil contours look weirdly asymmetrical. Only way to counter all that visually is to go with the large choil. Wish they’d kept the small choil design from the original Hog Badger—that one looked right. All that said, the large choil version is a very good looking knife and the same price in satin as the original Hog Badger (which had 1.7” less blade). And that was over seven years (and a lot of inflation) ago. At least it’s not a saw back. 😎
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Ironic said:
Yep. Basically the original Hog Badger design.
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(Not my pic, not my knife. Let me know if it’s a problem)
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That’s one of the things I like best about the OG hog badger Will is that smaller choil with the cutting edge up closer to my index finger and smaller ricasso! I wish I had bought more of them in satin with cavas handles! Hard to almost impossible to find for sale or trade for one like that now. I’m guessing that’s bc most folks really like them and are hanging onto them as users, myself included ha! ;)
 
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