All, I just got home and am amazed at all the replies, so thank you for that. As i am new to blades in general, more of a gun guy. i do thorough research before I buy things. I wanted a knife that was made in the us, tough as nails, and could handle everthing i asked of it and begged for more. I do not buy things to sit on a shelf and look b.a., i buy them for utility and function. This was the first time i had ever even had it out of the house. Be skeptical if you want, no way to prove what i did or didnt do to any of you. If i had it to do over again, i probably wouldnt have taken it out for this kind of test, but that doesnt mean that i dont have the absolute right to be disappointed in a tool that failed. This happened saturday, and i have not had the opportunity to send it in and get the results from the company. As stated before, and i know that this will be met with criticism, but this should not have failed with what i was trying to do. I realize i could have used a shovel, a pickax, a machete, or any of the like. However, given the tight space i was in the only thing i could think of that would have done the task was my knife, plus i wanted to show my fiance just how b.a. her future husband was! I failed to do so, as is obvious. Bottom line is this: While i could have used any of the tools i mentioned earlier, i didnt. I put my faith in a product that i had a very reasonable expectation to get the job done. It did not, it failed. And if Kabar doesnt warranty the knife, that is their business, but they will have lost mine in the process.