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I leave tonight for Hell's canyon, hopefully will do about 60 miles of hiking by sunday. Ordered my RC-5 almost a week ago and have been anxiously awaiting its arrival. The mail just came and instead of my RC-5, I got a bed bath and beyond advertisement. I took my Gerber Prodigy out of its sheath today. It is the one Gerber I have owned that I thought I got my money's worth out of it-though it is not an ideal survival knife, it is a good chunk of 440C. Well the blade was orange. The edge was clean, but the titanium nitrate coating they use either causes the steel beneath it to corrode, or it oxidizes itself. So here I am, with 220 grit in my hands, scrubbing the red off of what will be my bread and butter for the next 3 days.