The old ones are much better than the new ones.
Unless they've changed the steel again. The old ones were high carbon.
I don't doubt that a bit... there's a knife forum that has 43 pages dedicated to the history of the little thing. Made in China now.
I dressed the cow elk with my Knives of Alaska "Alph Wolf" and it did fine. But for skinning the SF was a much better tool. I hit them both with the work sharp when I got home and it's ready for a deer now. For $19 bucks, I'm impressed.
