I use to buy / horde a lot of what I thought were good "hard use" knives. This mostly included Beckers (original Camillus), Bucks, Gerbers, and KaBars. (I also had tons of others, but these were the "commonly recommended" knives most people heard of at that time).

After breaking one from each company I started researching knives more, and that lead me here.

I had equipped our survival gear with LMF2's after relegating my original LMF (different design) to the "collector only" pile. The LMF2 seemed like a good design, but I never cared for the balance. The giant weight at the pummel and handle shape (think a wood 1 x 2) was awful. Anyway, I had set about "testing" my gear and ended up breaking the blade on a LMF2. I also broke more AR15's than I care to remember.

The net result was learning (the hard way) the following lesson:

"As good as" never is.
or
Buy right and cry once. Buy wrong and cry twice.

I haven't bought a single piece of "hobby grade" kit since.