My only observation on this is I bought an Ontario SP Navy which was supposed to be 440A and used it in my (in)famous salty water test.. It reacted more than SR77 and on a par with a old naked 1095 Kabar, makes you wonder if they accidentally used the wrong steel stock really.. Hope they have got their stock inventory better sorted these days!

I hope all goes well for Justin, I emailed him once and he was very helpful and informative.