A few years back I decided to take a VG-10 paring knife blank and make new hunting knife out of it. Last year I sharpened it for the first time. I had used it for 3 years. It had gutted, skinned, quartered and deboned 9 deer plus the usual random jobs a hunting knife does. It was still sharp. Just not like fresh off the stone sharp, I could notice it wasn't the razor it started out as.
I have yet to see anything hold an edge like VG-10.
I have an oversize Santoku Dale Atkerson made out of very thick D2 for me that he had Rick Menefee harden and temper. That knife is a slicing SOB. I have cut up a bunch of deer on formica with it and it doesn't get dull. Not quite so easy to sharpen as the VG-10, but not bad at all.
Well made knives out of the best steels are well worth whatever they cost.
