It has a Tool Steel blade!

The model 12-9 #14 Grind is the biggest knife that is made in Stainless Steel. The normal model 12-9 Sportsman Bowie has always been made in tool steel. I wonder why they don't make this knife also in SS? They are both 9" long an 1/4 inch thick.

Maybe it has to do with the difference in shape of the 12-9 #14 Grind blade and the "normal" 12-9. It could be that it is more difficult or not possible, to make the 12-9 out of the SS that Randall buy's to hammer their 12-9 #14 Grind out of???