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Here's a couple from my pack 1984 Kentucky Derby Sowbelly First Gen Square Bolster Stockman

They are lookers!

About as nice as it gets Those 2 would look real good in my collection.

Thank's Fellas Here's a couple more from the pack 2006 Trapper and 2007 Slim Line Trapper
Razor

These were two of my favorite stag Dogs; a second generation Sowbelly and third Cattle King.


Paul

VERY nice Paul I really like that Cattle King Gotta get me one of those
Razor

Thanks razor, looks to me you have a dog pound; full of purebreds already.


Paul

Stag Dogs..................I'm a fan!

Very nice Lucky.......Razor.

German Bulldogs have some very nice stag.

Very nice!

Love those Tobacco's.

When i have a bad day i just scroll down this post and all is good again

Here's ya a stag dawg thats been toasted 2000 Tennessee Walking Horse Congress
Razor

It sure looks nice Razor.........................

Here are some stag Sunfish...

Beautiful knives guys

Calf Roper

Here are some 4th generation standing dog 5 1/4" whittlers.

I have this little trapper I like a lot

All those knives look great! I am a big fan of the Bulldog knives, especially the stag ones. I am looking for a good reference book for Bulldogs. I have Parker's Pocket knife traders guide but it does not have a lot of detail about the knives. What do you guys use? In my picture are some of my current favorite stag Bulldogs. It seems I put some knives away for a while and when I get them back out, I remember how much I like them. Thanks for starting this thread.

Hi Elwood! Those are some very nice stag Bulldogs you have. The new (volume 10) Pocket Knife Traders Guide does not mention Bulldogs at all, but the older ones are pretty good. I was able to obtain a copy of the volume 3 guide published in 1997 from Amazon.com. Volume 3 has color photos of 1st & 2nd generation knives together and points out some differences between them. Even so, I am still guessing much of the time. As far as I know, the Parker's books are the best you will find for older Bulldogs made thru 1995. If anyone knows of some other Bulldog books I would also be interested in them.

Parkers Volume 8 has a good value reference for Bulldogs.


Dog.....gone-it; you guys have some fine knives!

Rustle47 wrote: I was able to obtain a copy of the volume 3 guide published in 1997 from Amazon.com. Volume 3 has color photos of 1st & 2nd generation knives together and points out some differences between them. Even so, I am still guessing much of the time. As far as I know, the Parker's books are the best you will find for older Bulldogs made thru 1995. If anyone knows of some other Bulldog books I would also be interested in them.

If you compare pictures that are in vol. 3 with those in vol. 7 and vol. 8 carefully you will see some rather surprising results.

The transition.............................

Would anyone be willing to be a little less cryptic for the slower ones of us?

There is a definite deference between what some refer to as true 1st generation knives and second run 1st generation knives.

Compare the two 1985 knives below. The top one is a 1st generation knife. The pulls have more serrations, the shield is pointed, the stag is finished quite differently.

Was there a change up in tooling half way through the run? Why are they so different?

Many would argue the point and it’s never been proved when the knives were actually made……………..thus the mystery.