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Ninety-seven Buck knife SKUs are in stock here, from a $7.56 sheath to the Alpha Hunter Walnut at $224.99. The median sits at $47.04, and the shape of this range is different from most brands we carry: the middle is thin and the ends are strong.
That is deliberate on Buck's part. They build a small number of models very well and keep them in production for a long time, rather than refreshing a wide catalog every season. It means fewer choices than a brand like Kershaw offers, and it means the choices that exist have been sorted out over decades.
The lockback folding hunter is the shape most people picture when they hear the name, and the 110 Hunter Sport Lockback at $175.00 is that knife in its current premium form: a 3.75 inch S30V blade, made in the USA. S30V is a powder stainless that holds an edge far longer than the 420HC on Buck's traditional models, and the Sport version pairs it with a lighter handle than the classic brass and wood build.
Alongside it sits the Onset Framelock, at $189.99 in black and $200.00 in green, with a 3.38 inch blade and also made in the USA. The Onset is Buck's modern answer rather than its heritage one: a framelock rather than a lockback, built to be carried in a pocket rather than on a belt.
Between the two, the choice is honestly about how you carry. A lockback folding hunter is a belt-sheath knife that happens to fold. A framelock is a pocket knife. Both cut.
If you use a knife outdoors rather than in a pocket, this is the part of the catalog to read.
Full tang, on the Alpha Hunter, means the steel runs the entire length of the handle as one piece. It is the strongest way to build a fixed blade and the reason these knives can take lateral force that would break a folder.
Buck's fixed blades are shaped for specific jobs, and buying the wrong shape is the most common mistake on this page.
A skinner like the Ranger has a deep curved belly and a rounded point. The curve does the work of separating hide from meat with long sweeping strokes, and the blunt tip is a feature rather than a limitation because it does not puncture what is underneath.
A guthook, as on the Zipper, is a hooked notch on the spine that opens a body cavity without the blade tip going deep enough to cut into the gut. Used correctly it is faster and cleaner than a knife point. Used as a general knife it is awkward, and it is genuinely difficult to sharpen without a round file or a tapered rod.
A drop point, which covers the Vanguard and most general hunting blades, lowers the tip below the spine line for control and strength. It is the shape to buy if you want one knife that does everything acceptably rather than one thing perfectly.
The bottom of this page is sheaths, and they are worth knowing about because Buck keeps them available for models long after purchase.
The Belt Sheath in black leather is $15.12, with model-specific polyester sheaths for the 691 at $15.12, the 390 at $13.50 and the 673 at $7.56. If you inherited a Buck with a cracked sheath, this is the fix.
One care note that applies to every leather sheath here: carry in it, do not store in it. Tanned leather holds moisture against steel and will spot a blade that was put away slightly damp. This is not a Buck-specific issue, but it does account for a large share of rust on knives that were otherwise looked after.
Every knife on this page is covered by Buck's Forever Warranty: free repair including parts and labor for defects in materials or workmanship, for the life of the knife, at no charge and regardless of age. Unusually, it is written around the knife rather than the original purchaser.
It covers defects, not damage, and it does not include sharpening. Buck offers sharpening and reconditioning as separate paid services. That distinction matters because a knife sent in dull is not a warranty case, and knowing that up front saves a wasted shipment.
For sharpening at home, Buck's own EdgeTek range covers six products from a $12.60 Soft Arkansas Stone upward. The 420HC models come back easily on almost anything; S30V, S35VN and MagnaCut want diamond or ceramic.
Buck's folders split between lockbacks and framelocks, and the difference is worth understanding before you spend $175.
A lockback puts the lock bar in the spine of the handle, with a notch that drops into the blade tang and is released by pressing a cutout partway down the back. It is an old design, it is strong against the forces a knife actually sees, and it works the same way in either hand. The tradeoff is that closing it takes two hands to do safely.
A framelock, as on the Onset, uses a cut section of the handle slab itself to block the blade. It is stiff, it closes one-handed, and it gets stronger under load rather than weaker.
Neither of these is what fails in practice. What fails is people prying with the blade, which puts lateral force on a hardened edge that was never designed to take it, and no lock design and no warranty covers that. If a job needs prying, it needs a pry tool.
If the fixed blades here are close but not right, Buck's Gear & Outdoors shelf holds the Paklite and Alpha Guide systems, which approach the same jobs modularly. The full knives category puts all 796 knives in the building into one grid, and Kershaw is the direct comparison for folders under $100.