I think with the dropping thing, steel vs alloy etc that it depends ont he way it was made, forged vs cast or something and there's different types of alloy too.
It's not a black and white case. And I read somewhere to an excellent piece on it froma metalurgist who did a lot of tests.
The problem is the average person cant tell what sort of biner he has anymore, like composition, we got carbon graphite hybrids now etc.
Anyway, I'm certain I read that the alloys aren't that bad with regard to fracture as people make out. And that the old it's OK to drop steel was actually incorrect and the steel biners had the troubles.
But, darned if I can find that report and also, it depends on the biner composition.
Anyway, just my 0.02 and I climb all steel and that could be a false sense of security but my biners are 50kn.
