Buck Knives’s thirteenth stealth run has arrived and, while thirteen is sometimes considered an unlucky number, it won’t be for any fans of Buck’s most famous folder. The new stealth run 110 Auto Elite dresses up the automatic variant of the knife in all the right ways.
The Folding Hunter family tree has more branches than Starbucks at this point, with not only major format variations – such as the Auto Elite – but, within these variations, smaller editions and riffs, making tracking quite difficult – but maybe we’ll leave that to the Buckologists out there and just enjoy each new incarnation of the 110 as it comes across our desk.
While all the stealth run pieces are collectible, no. 13 is geared for performance across the board, starting with a blade made from – surprise surprise – CPM MagnaCut, further bolstered here by a Paul Bos heat treat. Bos manages to make much humbler steels than MagnaCut punch above their weight by fine-tuning the HT, so marrying his process to an inherently high-performance recipe like MagnaCut should produce satisfying results.
There are carbon fiber scales in between nickel silver bolsters, with a shield-shaped button on the show side for deploying the single action automatic blade. Carry sheaths have always been a part of the 110 package, no matter what version you get, so naturally the clipless Auto Elite gets one made from color-coordinated black leather. The knife weighs 7.5 oz. in total, according to Buck.
The no. 13 is limited to 750 pieces and available now.
Knife in Featured Image: Buck Knives Stealth Run No. 13
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