I have a cold steel original Outdoorsman that was machined from a 5 pound single piece of stainless steel. Bought it 30 years ago. It has field dressed 22 deer, and I never need a hatchet to break the sternum cartilage. I sharpen it once every five years or five deer, whichever comes first. The good quality Cold Steel stuff rocks! THeir cheaper lines not so much, in my experience.