Unlike the blog first test later crowd I’ve actually been USING this knife for two years, and it is fantastic. I’ll note that this is both proper and improper knife use (lots o’ needlessly bored whittling involved). It still holds it’s edge. This is my second Gerber, and I’ve had and used around 12-13 knives over the last 30 years that I would consider “professional grade” knives.

My carbon steel wanna-be commando knife is pitted all over, but this particular Gerber never has picked up a stain that I couldn’t just wash off. My camp knife Gerber was less than half the price when I bought my first one for $50 bucks, and now they are $20 bucks cheaper! Sure, if you want to blow $700 dollars buy a Bear Grylls knife, but if you are normal person looking for a good hunting, camping, fishing and even survival knife this particular one is great.