Buck made a knife called the Reaper that was basically the same knife years ago and to be honest is an awesome light use knife. I have one and I love it, made of 420HC, Bos heat treat, and USA made it was $45 at the time, and has the same style sheath. Ozark Trail makes some good budget knives that will work for what most people need. Thanks for the review.
I think the Buck Reaper is slightly hollow ground. Is that the case? The Ozark Trail 11 inch knife is a high sabre with a flat grind on the bottom 3/4, which I much prefer to high_sabre/hollow. The Chinese 440A (7cr17) sharpens up real well. Probably doesn't last, so take a field sharpening kit. This would be amazing in the 01 to 52100 grade of steels. I convexed the last 1.5 millimeters, which helps with cutting efficiency and fine wood shaving. Mine was on sale at $17 about a year ago when I got it. I also worried I was buying junk. The scales were a little warped and loose, so I got out a heat gun and flattened them. The corby screws or whatever they are called were gunked with some kind of glue or thread lock, so I cleaned and re-tapped them. The pakka wood composite responds really well to heat and a little bending. They were still a little too thin, so I added a thin layer of G10 on each side, counter sunk the screw holes a little to compensate and glued the G10 to the wood (inside). The handles are straight, solid and the right width now (med/large hands). I had to taper the top of the scales a little to fit back into the sheath, but that just makes the grip more comfortable for pinch grip, so it's a win-win and the knife fits very snugly in the sheath with just a micro-rattle. I sanded (500) the shine off the pakka wood scales for better grip when wet. I'll add some checkering if that isn't enough. It probably won't take teak or danish oil with all that epoxy in the wood. So now I have a solid feeling mid-size outdoors knife ready for action. I like the mixed abilities of light chopping and fine cutting with this mid-size class of knife. It's running at 8.7 ounces now with 0.85 inch scales at the wide middle part, 0.147 inch thick blade, 6.4 inch long blade and 5.6 inch edge. I may dull the bottom 1/16 inch of edge so I can use the choil safely or just extend the choil that much. I'll leave the black coating on until it gets all spotty and annoys me, then strip it off with aircraft stripper. It's camping time in southern Arizona, so off we go to get out the desert and find some woods.
I'm actually looking at pulling the trigger on picking up a Gerber serrated Prodigy. I've got a $10 Paracord Ozark and this $20 Ozark. And I decided I'll pick up the Gerber once one of these knives break or I lose it.
Thats a very good question i bought a lot of cold steel knifes and some fix blades beat the heck out of them. Now the knifes at Walmart are starting to intest me. One because I don't have to order them on line. 2 in my Walmart in the case. They have some good name brand one like crkt/Buck/Sog/Victorinox/ Gerber/old timer fix blade. These are mostly folders but there are fix blades as well.
With the sheaths that some of the small brands from China come with I'm surprised Walmart couldn't provide a better one. That knife would dominate the $24.99 non Amazon price range.
I just bought this knife last night for $8 on clearance. The sheath definitely DOES have the lock in feature. Just have to press in till it clicks. I also own two of the buck reaper knives that this one is an aesthetic knockoff of... The buck sheaths don't have the lock in...
The only walmart knife ill buy is when they do their christmas specials they have the camillus knifes i have a western side brand of camillus fixed blade great sheath and a titanium great sheaths for nylon sharp has hell
They're an even better deal now on clearance. Lol. The sheath DOES HAVE a "lock in" feature, all you need to do is press in a bit harder till it "clicks". I already own 2 of the Buck reapers. Lmao.
Thank you for the review. I bought two of these $20 Ozarks to put into the breakdown/boogie bags I'm putting together for our cars. Now I realize I need a third knife, to include in the bag for my car that's in the shop. There's just not much to go wrong for $20. If this piece of steel helps a family member out of even one scrape, we be justified.
The best use for this 'knife' is really defined by it's price. It's not a bad gardening tool, but really... If you can use this to trade for a couple cans of beans in an SHTF situation, or a jar of instant coffee, then yeah, money well spent. Other than that, sorry I'm more convinced that this 'Thing' was clearly designed to sell to easily impressed 11 year olds wandering the knife aile while mommy shopped across the store in the food section...
@@411Outdoors Lol! I think I failed to mention that yeah, I got 2 of them, while wandering the knife aisle while my wife was shopping for food on the other side of the store. Right? I distinctly remember hearing a yell in my head "We are Sparta!" as I slipped the pair into the cart...
I have that knife and i would recommend putting lock tight on the handle screws because if you just titen them they will come lose again but other than that I love it
You're pretty good at throwing knives but that Darn thing's got the boomerang shaped to it you ever miss that stump be careful And keep an eye on it might come back around and hitch You In the back of the head be ready to catch it
Really for $20 you can get a Mtech 151. I've got 2 they are amazing. I'm a person that only buys knives to use. I'm not a collector but I have a collection of knives. I don't understand the prices nowadays. It's mostly marketing. Joex is proving most reviews are just commercials. It's refreshing to see someone else that uses their stuff.
Hey man I have this knife to and with that sheath it does both as far as retention push it into the plastic it will click in and lock like a kydex sheath it really nice try it
Man! Gotta love Ozark Trail. I'm really digging this one. That price is so right. Funny story I've been carrying a $5 Ozark folder for 5yrs until I purchased that Kyoto1. The folder has kept its edge very well this hole time. Finally sharpened it the other day with that Gorilla grip sharpener. It has a razors edge now buddy lol. I laughed when you first threw that blade in the log. I knew it had to be done lol. I hope all is well. Thanks for another great vid. ⚔
Great budget knife, I've carried one a few years. The black finish is grey, after my tip broke off I just ground a new one, still carry it camping, fishing, and whatever lol.
Great review I've been using that knife for years going camping it's my go to knife I'd bet my survival on that knife and only slightly sharpen it once in these years great knife
So I watched this video of yours a few months back, and was recently at Walmart with $20 burning a hole in my pocket, so I pulled the trigger and bought this knife😬. I decided since I've never thrown a knife before maybe I should take some precautions, so I ordered me some chainmail⛓️ from a medieval times Internet site👍. The day my chain mail arrived my neighbor happen to be having a garage sale as well, and was selling a welding helmet. I thought to myself, hey this would be great protection for my face so I bought it for the 25 bucks👍. When I took the welding helmet home and tried it on I was surprised how much of my vision was obstructed. I thought to myself oh well🤷, the odds that knife blade bouncing back and coming through that tiny rectangle were slim to none, and definitely worth trading a little peripheral vision for some added safety👍. Anyway I found a nice target tree in my backyard to throw at, and my step mother and little sister came down to the back of the yard with our little puppy Fluffy to watch the knives first ever flight😎. Well needless to say my first-ever knife throw will be my last throw ever, what I didn't take into consideration was my lack of peripheral vision caused from my helmet. Sadly when I went to throw the knife our new little puppy must have thought it was a stick, and came running from the right side of my obstructed field of view😔. The knife fully impaled our puppy right behind his front right shoulder killing it almost instantly on impact 💔😰. My mother instinctively tried to pull the knife out of Fluffy but grab the wrong end of the knife nearly severing her finger completely off. It was horrible my little sister ran frantically towards the house yelling and screaming for help, but tripped and landed directly on a sharp little pointy tree stump caused by me chopping through a little sapling right before my first knife throw. The next day after my sister was released from the hospital and mom's fingers were stitched up we buried fluffy 🐩 right at ground zero, having a little makeshift family funeral🙏. Later on in the day my mom made me return the knife to Walmart and we used the money to buy some sterile gauze for my sister's wound care and some hydrogen peroxide for my mother's lacerations. 😕 I think I will just stick to watching knife-throwing on TH-cam and some mental counseling for the time being 👋😕✌️.
Knife throwing is definitely a dangerous practice and there are so many factors for safety to be considered. Bounce back, or the the potential of hitting someone or something is a potential danger at all times.
@@terrysmith4465 No I didn't lol, I hope no one believes it😳. I made it so ridiculously obvious🤷 that it was a made-up story, however maybe I should add more bad luck to the story in case it isn't obvious enough yet🤷. However this one is definitely true, one bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other. The deaf policeman heard the noise, Came and shot the two dead boys. If you don’t believe this lie is true, Ask the blind man, he saw it too.
It’s a great beater blade. I have just learned overtime especially as a knife thrower that I like having blades I don’t mind using. I also like to learn to throw many different kinds of knives
So far my experience with Ozark knives is that they are pretty "good quality" for the price.
Definitely 👍 I don’t have this one anymore but I definitely wanted to check it out because I’ve been looking at it on the shelves for years haha
Got this knife. Gonna test it but I have seen others use this and it’s did well…. Yeah Walmart is degenerate but you can’t deny some of their prices.
Buck made a knife called the Reaper that was basically the same knife years ago and to be honest is an awesome light use knife. I have one and I love it, made of 420HC, Bos heat treat, and USA made it was $45 at the time, and has the same style sheath. Ozark Trail makes some good budget knives that will work for what most people need. Thanks for the review.
Thank you brother! Great Information
I think the Buck Reaper is slightly hollow ground. Is that the case? The Ozark Trail 11 inch knife is a high sabre with a flat grind on the bottom 3/4, which I much prefer to high_sabre/hollow. The Chinese 440A (7cr17) sharpens up real well. Probably doesn't last, so take a field sharpening kit. This would be amazing in the 01 to 52100 grade of steels. I convexed the last 1.5 millimeters, which helps with cutting efficiency and fine wood shaving. Mine was on sale at $17 about a year ago when I got it. I also worried I was buying junk.
The scales were a little warped and loose, so I got out a heat gun and flattened them. The corby screws or whatever they are called were gunked with some kind of glue or thread lock, so I cleaned and re-tapped them. The pakka wood composite responds really well to heat and a little bending. They were still a little too thin, so I added a thin layer of G10 on each side, counter sunk the screw holes a little to compensate and glued the G10 to the wood (inside). The handles are straight, solid and the right width now (med/large hands). I had to taper the top of the scales a little to fit back into the sheath, but that just makes the grip more comfortable for pinch grip, so it's a win-win and the knife fits very snugly in the sheath with just a micro-rattle.
I sanded (500) the shine off the pakka wood scales for better grip when wet. I'll add some checkering if that isn't enough. It probably won't take teak or danish oil with all that epoxy in the wood.
So now I have a solid feeling mid-size outdoors knife ready for action. I like the mixed abilities of light chopping and fine cutting with this mid-size class of knife. It's running at 8.7 ounces now with 0.85 inch scales at the wide middle part, 0.147 inch thick blade, 6.4 inch long blade and 5.6 inch edge. I may dull the bottom 1/16 inch of edge so I can use the choil safely or just extend the choil that much.
I'll leave the black coating on until it gets all spotty and annoys me, then strip it off with aircraft stripper.
It's camping time in southern Arizona, so off we go to get out the desert and find some woods.
@@martinhafner2201 such great info my friend thank you for sharing 🙂
@@martinhafner2201 I believe it is a hollow grind but I have never had a problem with Buck hollow grinds
Great video. I love your common sense approach to knives. The most expensive isn't always the right tool for the job.
Exactly bro 🙂👍
I tried throwing this knife, and it broke in half, rather quickly
Hmmm may have been a bad blade I been beating mine up a few days haha. I will say, knife throwing tortures a knife
I use my knife a ton, my edc is a Gerber Prodigy and I absolutely love it 👍🏻
Such a great blade! I have the Strongarm. Gotta be one of my favs
I'm actually looking at pulling the trigger on picking up a Gerber serrated Prodigy. I've got a $10 Paracord Ozark and this $20 Ozark. And I decided I'll pick up the Gerber once one of these knives break or I lose it.
Thats a very good question i bought a lot of cold steel knifes and some fix blades beat the heck out of them. Now the knifes at Walmart are starting to intest me. One because I don't have to order them on line. 2 in my Walmart in the case. They have some good name brand one like crkt/Buck/Sog/Victorinox/ Gerber/old timer fix blade. These are mostly folders but there are fix blades as well.
Great video, and it definitely shows that you don’t have to spend a bunch of money to have fun enjoying your hobbies.
Exactly 🙂👍
This blade is a great thrower. It's so satisfying when it sticks. I have a short on my channel of me throwing it at a tree.
With the sheaths that some of the small brands from China come with I'm surprised Walmart couldn't provide a better one. That knife would dominate the $24.99 non Amazon price range.
Well said!
I just bought this knife last night for $8 on clearance. The sheath definitely DOES have the lock in feature. Just have to press in till it clicks.
I also own two of the buck reaper knives that this one is an aesthetic knockoff of... The buck sheaths don't have the lock in...
That Blade looks like it's part Bowie and part Kukri.
Certainly At Home in the Woods. For 20 Bucks, you did Great.
It sure does look like a hybrid of the two👍👍
Yeah, the bend keeps you from having to flex your wrist forward, so it makes chopping easier and snappier, just like a tiny kukri.
Yeah
It's a shame they don't have a
straight handed version of this
for people that don't like bent
handled knives
The only walmart knife ill buy is when they do their christmas specials they have the camillus knifes i have a western side brand of camillus fixed blade great sheath and a titanium great sheaths for nylon sharp has hell
I have a Camillus machete I really like it!🙂👍
Push the knife into the sheath harder. It will click like a kydex sheath
Gotcha 👍
They're an even better deal now on clearance. Lol. The sheath DOES HAVE a "lock in" feature, all you need to do is press in a bit harder till it "clicks".
I already own 2 of the Buck reapers. Lmao.
Thank you for the review. I bought two of these $20 Ozarks to put into the breakdown/boogie bags I'm putting together for our cars. Now I realize I need a third knife, to include in the bag for my car that's in the shop. There's just not much to go wrong for $20. If this piece of steel helps a family member out of even one scrape, we be justified.
How durable os the steel, do you reckon? One of the reviews Walmart had on its site showed one of these snapped right in half.
I think it definitely has its limitations. I would consider it mid to light duty.
Should be fairly good , steel is 5120 not great but good.
The best use for this 'knife' is really defined by it's price. It's not a bad gardening tool, but really...
If you can use this to trade for a couple cans of beans in an SHTF situation, or a jar of instant coffee, then yeah, money well spent.
Other than that, sorry I'm more convinced that this 'Thing' was clearly designed to sell to easily impressed 11 year olds wandering the knife aile while mommy shopped across the store in the food section...
That’s a good point actually 😂 this is a good knife if all you have is a few bucks. It’s big and has a look to it haha
@@411Outdoors Lol! I think I failed to mention that yeah, I got 2 of them, while wandering the knife aisle while my wife was shopping for food on the other side of the store. Right? I distinctly remember hearing a yell in my head "We are Sparta!" as I slipped the pair into the cart...
@@KandaJE 😂😂
@@411Outdoors That old saying: You are REQUIRED to grow old. You are NOT required to grow up! Even in my 60s I'm still only 11 years old!
Pretty good quality I'm in there all the time filming have have a bunch of them
Definitely fun the knock around with. I love expendable knives that can work
Looks like a fun knife. I've got a couple of Ozark Trail folding knives. Good little beaters !
Thanks for the video, 411! Had my eye on these ever since we got ‘em in but never knew if I should pick one up or not.
Looks like a good $20 beater. Maybe just loctite the screws and it should last.
Yes sir 🙂👍 💯
Great knife for the money. 👍
I have that knife and i would recommend putting lock tight on the handle screws because if you just titen them they will come lose again but other than that I love it
Great tip 🙂👍
Got one myself for the money you can’t beat it I have better knives but they cost three times as much but this knife will do the thing they can do
this is like steal. BTW, Cold Steel got a pair of chinese 8 inch blade bushcraft knives for $30 in WalMart only.
👍👍
That is 100% a locking sheath tho....i have the same knife....
Even did a review vid on it...
Yep, I made her discovered lol
Thats a copy of a buck reaper .my reaper chops like mad
That’s what I’m hearing I wanna go look at that knife👍
@@411Outdoors i have a review if youd. Like ill send link
Ya get what ya pay for but Ozark for the win, on the cheap. thanks for the review ❗👍🏆
Right on bro!
My brother full decapped a gator with this knife.
😮👍 nice!
You're pretty good at throwing knives but that Darn thing's got the boomerang shaped to it you ever miss that stump be careful And keep an eye on it might come back around and hitch You In the back of the head be ready to catch it
😂👍👍 I sure will
Great review! Looks like an awesome blade for 20 bucks! Get a ceramic rod and your GTG!
Temptation.
I love it great knife
I really dig it too 👍
I don’t know if it’s changed or not but the ones I handled working there years ago did snap into the sheath.
I may need to fool with it 🙂👍
Just press down hard more putting it in, it does lock
Great video 👍
👊
Really for $20 you can get a Mtech 151. I've got 2 they are amazing.
I'm a person that only buys knives to use. I'm not a collector but I have a collection of knives.
I don't understand the prices nowadays. It's mostly marketing.
Joex is proving most reviews are just commercials.
It's refreshing to see someone else that uses their stuff.
I love watching his videos so fun haha
Looks like a fun beater knife. Good review
First time seeing your channel & subscribed ! Agree with you across the board 👍
Thank you my friend. Glad to have you on the channel!
Hey man I have this knife to and with that sheath it does both as far as retention push it into the plastic it will click in and lock like a kydex sheath it really nice try it
I sure will thank you!
cool video keep up the fun
Man! Gotta love Ozark Trail. I'm really digging this one. That price is so right. Funny story I've been carrying a $5 Ozark folder for 5yrs until I purchased that Kyoto1. The folder has kept its edge very well this hole time. Finally sharpened it the other day with that Gorilla grip sharpener. It has a razors edge now buddy lol. I laughed when you first threw that blade in the log. I knew it had to be done lol. I hope all is well. Thanks for another great vid. ⚔
I appreciate it bro! Yeah you knew I was gonna have to sling it haha
@@druidic4353 It's not always about the blade or the price. It's about the user.
Thank you for another great video my friend!
🙂👊
Great budget knife, I've carried one a few years. The black finish is grey, after my tip broke off I just ground a new one, still carry it camping, fishing, and whatever lol.
Glad it’s working well for you my friend🙂👍 I think it’s great as well
@@411Outdoors it's the cheapest knife I own, but that's why it gets used for anything lol
@@leastamongyou1111 That’s the beauty of inexpensive knives. You’re not afraid to just use the heck out of them lol
So,right,411
Loke Tite should do the trick
Clean up the threads first. There was some low grade glue in there blocking mine so they wouldn't tighten down right.
Great review I've been using that knife for years going camping it's my go to knife I'd bet my survival on that knife and only slightly sharpen it once in these years great knife
Great update! Thank you sir 🙂👍
So I watched this video of yours a few months back, and was recently at Walmart with $20 burning a hole in my pocket, so I pulled the trigger and bought this knife😬.
I decided since I've never thrown a knife before maybe I should take some precautions, so I ordered me some chainmail⛓️ from a medieval times Internet site👍.
The day my chain mail arrived my neighbor happen to be having a garage sale as well, and was selling a welding helmet.
I thought to myself, hey this would be great protection for my face so I bought it for the 25 bucks👍.
When I took the welding helmet home and tried it on I was surprised how much of my vision was obstructed.
I thought to myself oh well🤷, the odds that knife blade bouncing back and coming through that tiny rectangle were slim to none, and definitely worth trading a little peripheral vision for some added safety👍.
Anyway I found a nice target tree in my backyard to throw at, and my step mother and little sister came down to the back of the yard with our little puppy Fluffy to watch the knives first ever flight😎.
Well needless to say my first-ever knife throw will be my last throw ever, what I didn't take into consideration was my lack of peripheral vision caused from my helmet.
Sadly when I went to throw the knife our new little puppy must have thought it was a stick, and came running from the right side of my obstructed field of view😔.
The knife fully impaled our puppy right behind his front right shoulder killing it almost instantly on impact 💔😰.
My mother instinctively tried to pull the knife out of Fluffy but grab the wrong end of the knife nearly severing her finger completely off.
It was horrible my little sister ran frantically towards the house yelling and screaming for help, but tripped and landed directly on a sharp little pointy tree stump caused by me chopping through a little sapling right before my first knife throw.
The next day after my sister was released from the hospital and mom's fingers were stitched up we buried fluffy 🐩 right at ground zero, having a little makeshift family funeral🙏.
Later on in the day my mom made me return the knife to Walmart and we used the money to buy some sterile gauze for my sister's wound care and some hydrogen peroxide for my mother's lacerations. 😕
I think I will just stick to watching knife-throwing on TH-cam and some mental counseling for the time being 👋😕✌️.
Knife throwing is definitely a dangerous practice and there are so many factors for safety to be considered. Bounce back, or the the potential of hitting someone or something is a potential danger at all times.
BS
Did you expect somebody to believe all that BS
@@terrysmith4465 that was the thought I had in the back of my mind. Seems far fetched. Just incase I figured I’d offer some manufactured sympathy 😂
@@terrysmith4465 No I didn't lol, I hope no one believes it😳.
I made it so ridiculously obvious🤷 that it was a made-up story, however maybe I should add more bad luck to the story in case it isn't obvious enough yet🤷.
However this one is definitely true, one bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
The deaf policeman heard the noise,
Came and shot the two dead boys.
If you don’t believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man, he saw it too.
The knife will snap into the sheath. it's designed to do so. sometimes it takes a bit of extra umph to get it in a new sheath
Just bought one, thank you for the awesome review brother
No problem 👍🙂
No problem 👍🙂
I might get one bro!
It’s a great beater blade. I have just learned overtime especially as a knife thrower that I like having blades I don’t mind using. I also like to learn to throw many different kinds of knives
@@411Outdoors Awesome bro
Nice video bro. Kinda makes me wish I had a walmart in my country
It’s a crazy place but it’s good it’s good side haha Thank you my friend
Push it down it locks in🤙🏼
I appreciate it and yep later figured it out. Thanks!