Half the state of Alaska is running around with cutco knives and you can keep the cheap ass Winchester knife, on a moose I have to sharpen that damn thing probably 20 times. I read and it seem that SV30 steel is not created equal either. I don't know but I like cutco cheap steel or not and I'm sticking with them. The coldest skinning job ever done was at -40 on a moose and those cutcos with the supposed to cheap steel didn't break..