MD, My hunting partner purchased 6 of the single bevel warewolfs and his initial thoughts were the same a yours: for that price they should be ready to hunt with. I weighed all six of his broadheads and they were within 3 grains of each other. He is'....put diplomatically, Sharpening Challenged. It took me about 30 minutes to put a huntable edge on all six of the broadheads. However, when finished, the edge is sharper then any stainless steel broahead I have used (I will qualify that statement, as I haven't used a German Kinetics, but did examine one once, and I think it may have been sharper). Two of them maintained their edge well enough after passing through a buck and doe that no touch up was needed. I an not a blacksmith, but the metal in the werewolf blades appears closer to that of a good knife then it is to the disposable stainless steel broadheads.