I've had this knife for awhile and hadn't put it to use until recently. I sharpened it with a grind angle of something you might find in a kitchen. Three weeks ago I went wild pig hunting in central Texas and used this knife to dress out a large boar on the second day of the hunt. I was looking over the knife and it and it still effortlessly and cleanly cuts through paper. I haven't even touched the blade up on a sharpening steel. I'm a hard guy to impress but it's hard to not be impressed with a knife that can fully dress out a 300lb boar and the only wear to the blade can be corrected with a strop. Cheers