Right on!
If these knives could not stand up to what I dish out....it's how I came to Hinderer in the first place. I gave several other knives an honest shot, but the XMs are what's right for me (wants/needs).
Pond Scum is how I roll on my primary 3.5. I've got orange on a couple others, a few other scale colors too, but no matter what I put on my Gen 4 3.5 primary, I keep going back to the Pond.
And will until I can score some textured Ti. Because once you go textured Ti, it's near impossible to go back.