Buck ICEMAN, long thought frozen in the Alps, uh uh, he's back

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Model 874 and there are variations in size, edge and color. Our friends to the North, Canadian Tire, offer a Mini-Iceman. I don't think that I've ever seen this one in photos or in the flesh.

The actual Mini-Iceman at CT:


Buck Mini Iceman Knife

Product #75-2149-8 (about $40 Canadian before taxes)

Blade Style: liner lock
Blade Length: 2-3/4" (6.9 cm)
Overall Length: 6-5/8" (16.8 cm)
Blade Steel Grade: 420HC steel
Handle Details: anodized aluminum with rubber inset
Pocket clip

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Archive photo of one of the past versions of the Iceman, courtesy of KC:


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The CT Mini-Iceman is a clipit knife while the actual ice man's knife is a sheath knife:



Flip side of clipit:


Was the tip broken off or did the owner prefer it this way?
 
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The CT advertisement page doesn't say where it is made. It has that off shore look to me as well but I don't know. The blacked out, a prior version, is clearly marked "China" on the blade. Who has one that can tell us?
 
HAHA very nicely put together Oregon.

The ongoing joke in Canada is we call it "Crappy Tire"
 
Please buy one and send it to me or photograph it for the forum when they go on sale. Buck is trying to confuse me with the model number recycling and if I'm fuzzy then I betcha it won't be long until someone wants to know if it is a fugazzi or real.

Buck is good at selling. Filling that demand. Do you know that in 1993 Buck sold a product line called and marked Ultrablade? You can look up the, now abandoned, trademark application if you want proof. Knives from all over the globe, Moki in Japan for example, and inexpensive to buy then. Fixed blades and folders.

I've never been to a Canadian Tire store but I receive the flyer via email. I gotta go someday. BC would be the closest to me here in the Portland, Oregon area. Years ago I bicycled the Island, as a sorta send off gesture, with a friend who continued across the Canadian continent to the East coast. Rained real good every day. Rained even more than here where frogs are known to strangle in downpours.

74119245 is/was the trademark serial number.
 
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Oregon,
I have never seen that knife in a CT store here . I'll be looking for it this weekend. The flyer comes to me in the community newspaper which we get on wedensday but I did not get one today.
I'll let you know what I find.
 
REDCANOE said:
Oregon,
I have never seen that knife in a CT store here . I'll be looking for it this weekend. The flyer comes to me in the community newspaper which we get on wedensday but I did not get one today.
I'll let you know what I find.
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Thank you kindly redcanoe. Catch that catfish!

This series of photos shows a Great Blue Heron fishing a catfish out of this canal. It trundled over the small hill and when out of site started hollering as if the prey bit back (some fish have horns, like bull heads I've caught, that can give you a nasty cut when you go to hurl them back into water).



















 
dr_fosg8 said:
Oregon, awesome pics of that heron! Thanks for sharing those.
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Thank you for the kind words. My pleasure.

I got lucky this week with photos. I've watched herons for hour after grinding hour without them so much as blinking an eye. They are masters of stealth while in plain sight and can freeze waiting for prey to come to them for as long as it takes.
 
Impressing pictures, Oregon, Simply great!!!

Yes I am older than it looks like. I met the ice man at similaun glacier few days before he went west. We climbed up the Tiesen Valley and had a discussion about the american tanto blades. He told me how to use these knifes for bow making. He had a yew stave and cut a bow out of it when we camped over night in one of the small helix huts, which were made by the sheperds on their way to the high ridge ...

Haebbie
 
Wow Steve, what kind of camera do you have... I will trade you half of my knives for it even my brass 111 classic ... J/k ...
Boy do you take some great pictures... I'm coming to see you next month will you teach me how to take pictures
like yours... Just Beautiful... Thanks for sharing them with us... :star::star::star::star::star:
 
Okay…I knew Steve took really good pictures, but these are as professional as I've ever seen! Very nice!! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
Haebbie said:
Impressing pictures, Oregon, Simply great!!!

Yes I am older than it looks like. I met the ice man at similaun glacier few days before he went west. We climbed up the Tiesen Valley and had a discussion about the american tanto blades. He told me how to use these knifes for bow making. He had a yew stave and cut a bow out of it when we camped over night in one of the small helix huts, which were made by the sheperds on their way to the high ridge ...
Haebbie
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Thank you. I feel young compared to you now. Excuse me while I go skip about for a while now!

ItsTooEarly said:
Wow Steve, what kind of camera do you have... I will trade you half of my knives for it even my brass 111 classic ... J/k ...
Boy do you take some great pictures... I'm coming to see you next month will you teach me how to take pictures
like yours... Just Beautiful... Thanks for sharing them with us... :star::star::star::star::star:
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OK, I have gotten up off the floor from where your statement put me. Thanks. Nothing could separate you from that piece of brass and steel unless it was pried from your cold dead hands! Its a fact. Ha. I will email you my shipping address just in case... :)

Stumps said:
Okay…I knew Steve took really good pictures, but these are as professional as I've ever seen! Very nice!! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
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You are so kind to say that. Thank you. Everyone on this forum sets a high standard that challenges each of us. Thank you members for the fun and excitement that is this forum. Love your photos.
 
DesertChris said:
Wow! Those are right up there with the best photos I have ever seen!
Very nice!
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Thank you DC. I was hoping that you would enjoy a snapshot from the water planet I live on where liquid hydrogen is falling from the sky right now, it is gray as far as I can see in all directions and the sun is only a distant memory. :)

 
Ah the rain..... it rains very little here :(

I lived on the Northern California Coast in the redwoods for 16 years before moving here.

I miss the rain, and the color green.
 
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