Here's a great article posted by rangeball in the tech forum(I should mention he indicated it was originally posted by Derbytown @ AT)

http://www.buckmasters.com/Buckmaste...arpFactor.html

Basically the sharper the blades the better the "clean" cut. The better the cut the better the bleed. The better the bleed the quicked the animal expires and you can recover you game.

But, if you can shave hair with them from the package I'd say you are good to go. It'll be tough to beat that edge. Ausie had posted instruction on b-head sharpening

http://forum.hunting.net/asppg/tm.as...=1&key=sharpen