| The Buck Knife originated in Kansas over one | | | | was set in San Diego, after Hoyt and his wife |
| hundred years ago when a 10 year old blacksmith | | | | moved there and asked his son Al to form a |
| apprentice named Hoyt Heath Buck quit school | | | | knife business company in 1947. They sold knives |
| and started making knives in 1902. When Hoyt | | | | by direct mail order with a production of 25 |
| was thirteen, he discovered a method to | | | | knives per week and although these knives were |
| heat-treat and temper steel in a way that tools | | | | more expensive than regular knives, their blades |
| would keep their edge for longer; he then applied | | | | were sharp and enduring. After Hoyts death, due |
| this knowledge to agricultural tools. In 1907 Hoyt | | | | to cancer, in 1949, the company scaled up and in |
| left Kansas for Washington and became an | | | | the 1950s they started mass-producing the Buck |
| insurance salesman, there he met and married | | | | knives and selling them through dealers. The buck |
| Daisy Louise Green on October 20, 1910, with | | | | knives are widely popular among the military for |
| whom he had six children. The oldest child, Alfred | | | | their design and endurance. |
| Charles Buck, enlisted in the Navy in 1927 when | | | | In 1961, Al Buck incorporated H.H. Buck & |
| he was very young, and was stationed at the | | | | Son and the company became Buck Knives Inc. |
| Naval Training Center in San Diego, after he was | | | | The Buck Folding Hunter Model 110, a folding |
| discharged, he joined the coast guard. Al had a | | | | lock-blade knife and the most popular Buck Knife, |
| long military career and developed a passion for | | | | was approved for development on April 18, 1963. |
| the armed forces. | | | | With wood handles and brass bolsters the blade |
| When the United States entered the Second | | | | of this knife measures 4 inches and possess a |
| World War in 1941 after the attack of Pearl | | | | high-tension lock. This knife, which was introduced |
| Harbor, the government asked for knife donations | | | | to the public in 1964, has become the most |
| to arm the troops since there were not enough | | | | imitated model in the world. |
| for every soldier. At this time Hoyt was a pastor | | | | Buck knives are still arming the army, and in the |
| of the Assembly of God Church living in Mountain | | | | mid 80s two new models, the Buckmaster, a |
| Home Idaho, and when he learned about the | | | | survival knife with a hollow handle, and the M9 |
| army's shortage, he began making knives to | | | | Bayonet were manufactured. The Buckmaster, |
| support the war effort using some worn-out | | | | with a 7.5 inch serrated blade, became popular |
| blades as raw material and setting up a blacksmith | | | | amongst Rambo movie fans. Another example is |
| shop in the basement of his church complete with | | | | the Nighthawk, introduced in 1992 and used by |
| an anvil, a forge and a grinder. Hoyt's knives | | | | the Navy Seals, this knife has a fixed blade |
| earned a great reputation during this time and | | | | measuring 6.5 inches and an ergonomic black |
| many servicemen started asking for handcrafted | | | | handle. In 2005, the family run and operated Buck |
| Buck knives. | | | | Knives Inc. moved to Post Falls, Idaho. |
| When the war was over, H.H. Buck & Son | | | | |