I didn’t think to do a paper test with it until after we’d already taken it into the woods and chopped the days away, so I was surprised when I came home and cut clean through a piece of paper without even stropping the GCK.
I’ve found it takes a lot more effort to do any kind of damage to the GCK’s blade. The Buck Compadre makes a good case too, but the grind on that knife is a lot thinner and more prone to rolling. If any knife will convince the steel purists that 5160 tool steel is worth a damn, it’s this knife. We’ll miss you.Ĭheck Price At Buck Specifications Overall Length:Īggressive texturing can be hard on bare skinĪ Tough Blade and Surprising Edge Retention Knowing that now, it doesn’t seem likely they’ll bring it back in anything like its original form. It took a lot of time and machining to make this knife, and it just got to be too much for Buck’s workflow. In the meantime, you can find some similar options down in the Comparison and Alternatives section of this article.Ģ023 Update: We finally had a little talk with someone at Buck, and it turns out the handle was just too beautiful for this world. Also it was the Buck of the Month knife in February 2022, so I’m still holding out hope it will come back someday. I haven’t heard why, but I don’t think it’s a materials or labor thing because they’re still making the Compadre and the Froe. It’s the kind of knife I would have accidentally poked myself with when I was younger because I thought it would make me run faster.Ģ022 UPDATE: The GCK line was discontinued around mid 2021. I’ve said something similar about the Browning Battle Bowie, but while that “knife” is a blast to swing at trees and ropes like a pirate on a boarding party, the GCK has a terrifying kind of utility to its design that should be sobering to more responsible adults. But the base truth of it is that the attraction of the GCK for me is that it’s cool in a 12-year-old-playing-in-the-backyard kind of way. I’m going to say a lot of stuff about how it’s useful in a lot of different ways: it can chop and slice and keep a surprisingly stubborn edge despite being made from a spring steel. I’m a drunk who does stuff in the woods and occasionally has strong opinions about the knife industry’s obsession with the word “tactical”. So I say this with an extreme sense of caution: The Buck GCK is an incredibly tactical knife.Īs per Buck’s press release when they announced this knife, the GCK design was meant to be used for tactical and outdoor utility situations, and put through field testing by military operatives. I can never get past that fear of reading a headline about someone who accidentally fell on their new Buck GCK because they thought they “could run faster with a knife”. I’m always uneasy about reviewing knives that look like this: which is to say, like something you’d see in a Call of Duty game. The Tactical Outdoor Knife that’s Mostly Tactical if We’re Being Honest
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