Buck 112 automatic is a candidate.
I think I'll start with a Buck 112 since nobody has bad feedback.
P89DCSS, I take back what I said in my post - #7 in this thread. I still thank you for bringing up the Buck 112 automatic, but I looked at a few of them in Sportsman's Warehouse while I was in town today, and I no longer want one.
Sportsman's had both the regular Rangers and the "elite" Rangers, and while the regular ones were a little lighter and thinner, they were
both too heavy and thick for my taste. But their bulkiness wasn't the worst of it. The fact is, the ones Sportsman's had on display didn't snap open nearly as fast as I expected them to.
But that still didn't turn me off completely, and when the guy behind the counter asked me if I wanted one, I told him that I'd have my wife come in tomorrow and pick one up for me for Christmas. He said that would be fine, and that he'd set one aside (for 24 hours) with my wife's name on it. But he said the one he would set aside would be a new one in its box instead of the display model.
Well naturally I wanted to check out the one he was going to "set aside." It's a good thing I did because the new one in its box wouldn't even open all the way.
So he called a younger (and obviously more experienced) guy over there and asked him if they needed to send that Buck 112 back, or if it "just needed a drop of oil." The younger guy said, "No, I've seen a lot of these Buck Rangers, and Buck just doesn't put strong enough springs in them."
Anyway, long story short - I don't want a Buck 112 automatic anymore, and I'm sure not going to order one over the internet because I'd want to make sure it works first. BTW, the display model at Sportsman's
did work, however slowly, and the guy said they'd sell it to me for 5% off what the price tag said ($167.90) because it was the "display model." I
still no longer want a Buck 112 automatic.
