Andy Wayne,

I agree. A good knife should be able to be batonned, but there are limits. Take a look at the size of the frozen log that these guys were trying to baton with that little CS Recon scout (7 1/2" blade)



Now, compare that to the log that you batonned with your 10" blade.



You can see that there is a huge difference between what was being asked of those respective knives. You were able to split a log that was relatively small compared to the size knife you had, while the CS Recon was asked to split a log that was significantly larger. Not exactly a fair comparison.

Like I said earlier, the CS recon that failed could have been a lemon too. Who knows if there as a hairline fracture in the metal previously to that incident. also notice that it wasn't the blade that broke.

Maverick