Anybody here like Randall Mades?

[bgrafsr]

Model 27:

 

[BearBio]

I'm getting up in years, so I'm taking a few bequeaths on vacation. Nephew gets my #1 and my brother gets the gamemaster.

Rather they go to someone in the family rather than get sold after I'm gone!

 

[Narragansett]

I love them, always wanted one or 2, but some how, I just can't seem to justify the expense, or get past a KA-BAR, but somehow I can justify a safe full of guns that never get used that tie up 10's of thousands of dollars

 

[Lonegle57]

I currently have 4, given to me by my now gone ex-father-inlaw. Despite his daughter we remained best friends until he passed. He was a Randall collector having close to 300 in his collection. Mine are a model 10 3inch,27,Stanaback special and a Rick Bowles special.

 

[jag312]

I was at the Al Capone Auction in Sacramento on this past Friday. I bought the Randall Model 12 - Little Bear Bowie that belonged to Al Capone's son. Photographs will follow. I have to wait for the invoice, then send the money, then wait for it to arrive at my house, and then I can photograph it. If anyone here was at the auction, I am easy to remember. While everyone else was dressed for a party, or wedding, or funeral, I was dressed in worn Levi's with a hole in the right leg, a worn work shirt, a worn Levi jacket with motorcycle patches, and an old, stained, misshapen cowboy hat.

 

[JOliver]

2 on the top
The ones on the bottom are George Trouts which I like but something about the Randalls

 

[Muss Muggins]

Here’s the group. #1, #5, #10, #14, #15, #18, and #24. The latter two received the most use, with the 18 being the go to truck knife and the 24 being my EDC back when I wore pants and boots. Now that it’s shorts every day, it’s a Benchmade automatic. . .

 

[jag312]

I was at the Al Capone Auction in Sacramento on this past Friday. I bought the Randall Model 12 - Little Bear Bowie that belonged to Al Capone's son. Photographs will follow......

Here it is.

 

[SuperMan]

Probably a dozen years ago or so, was at one of the auctions in NH where several Randalls were on the block...ended up bidding on a narrow tang #14 with 7.5" stainless blade... Price was reasonable, no wait and had been just used enough so continued use was no big deal...

Bob

 

[SuperMan]

...four years ago on my birthday I was at a large local shop who is also a Randall Knife Dealer... They have a used counter that has all sorts of things from junk knives to high end customs.

In the mess was what looked like a Randall #1-7...asked the clerk to look at it and sure enough it was...like new in the original sheath...for $250.00... Had just been taken in on trade the day before... Needless to say it went home with me...Happy Bithday to Me...

But since this knife was almost identical to the #14 above I ended up putting it on GunBroker...and just short of doubled my money...


Bob

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

My son has some............BUT if I stuck one handle deep in a deer he would need a defibulator.

 

[Coyote56]

Randalls… I have a few. Of those I owned, one I sold about 20 years ago. Another will soon be on the market and will be an excellent score for someone.
The remainder shall stay with me…until I no longer need them.

 

[Onomea]

I generally like 6" sheath knives, but bought this Model 3-5 after reading somewhere that Bo Randall thought the Model 3 his best all around knife, and 5" the most practical length because wearing it you could sit comfortably in a truck:

 

[BlackAgnes]

I kinda like 'em, too...

Tim

 

[Onomea]

Very nice collection and display, BlackAgnes.

(I see you have the carving knife resting on the bottom shelf, ready to grab at a moment's notice and get to carving!)

My early '50s carver:

 

[paplinker]

Saw one I liked at the last gun show gone by.

Looked like a skinner with a ivory colored handle. 599.00

Not knowing much about Randalls I got nervous if there might be any knockoffs ever made.

Also I do not know which steel would make a better deer knife.

 

[Auto Mag]

The knife might be really nice, but 2 bills of groceries......JK......there is no way I could make a comparison!!
Larry

 

[wundudnee]

I am a novice newby on Randall knives, however I have found them addictive. I bought one at Tulsa and didn't even know the model. I don't hunt big game and I'm to old to need a fighting knife so I really can't justify the cost, but arent they pretty.

 

[BubbaBlades]

A good friend of mine got a Randall Model 3 with a 6" blade and a stag handle as his 1964 high school graduation present. I got a Ruger Standard .22. Both gifts cost just over $40 each. I had never heard of Randall Knives but I could not believe that a hunting knife could cost as much as a gun.

Today, the new Ruger Standard and the Randall Model 3 with stag and finger grips both list for just over $500.

I was never able to get my friend to sell me his knife because it was a gift from a now departed relative, however, he found me a near exact copy of his knife at a gun show in the early 90s. I bought that knife for $220 and it is the knife in my picture on the bottom row 8th in from the left.

In answer to the original post..................yes, I like Randall Knives.

 

[boykinlp]

I must admit I didn't expect that ending.....that made me belly laugh!!
Larry