Abowyer Stainless?

[Butchie]

Anyone seen or tried the Abowyer Brown Bear stainless head yet?  I notice the stainless are harder, any issues with sharpening vs. the carbon steel heads? Up front, it seems like an extra $5 per 3 for stainless would be worth it.  Opinions?

Thanks!

[kuch]

Abowyers are my favorite...all I use now but I never really considered a stainless head better for my purposes. I don't live near salt water which may make the stainless more desireable but stainless will still rust with salt water. So I would still rub some vaseline on either head. I just kinda like the simple carbon . As far as sharpening I have not used the stainless but my experience with knives is there are more variables than hardness and what I know about Abowyer and the guys that run it they would help in any way possible.

[Bjorn]

The regular Brown Bear is my current fav-haven't tried the stainless version yet.

[stalkin4elk]

Worth it? I found one of my lost Brown Bears this past week while hunting sheds and it only had a slight bit of rust and sharpened up easily to use another day.I lost the bh last Sept. after shooting a willow instead of a dear. A darn angus cow stepped on and crunched the fmj shaft but at least the bh is good. After the same time would the ss version be any better?? A twist on your question but lost bh are lost dollars and misses are misses.

[HB3]

I shoot the Brown Bears, have had 1 of the stainless break when hitting rocks, never had this happen with the regular head. Also broke one in a broadhead target when it hit another head, again never happened with the regular heads. Not a big deal considering all the shots have had where they did not break, great heads.

[chopx2]

Originally posted by HB3:
 have had 1 of the stainless break when hitting rocks, never had this happen with the regular head.

I find that other brands of SS BH in that high hardness (RC58) are brittle and break and chip easy. So sounds like it may be the hardness more than the material. Not sure

[Ragnarok Forge]

Stainless steels are higher in nickel than simple high carbon steels, this makes them more brittle on direct impact with a really hard object ( rocks, etc...).  Being harder also makes any steel more brittle.

[Butchie]

Good info HB3.  Thanks everyone.