Perhaps the most important task for hunting knives is processing game in the field and on the meat pole. For that a hunter needs a knife that slices and holds an edge. However, it also has to hold up ...

In fact, I didn’t get my first Benchmade knife until last fall, right before hunting season. I was sent a Raghorn—made for skinning and quartering big game animals—to test in the field.

Purpose-built hunting knives are typically thinner and have their edges ground differently than survival ... A good square spine with a burr edge can be a big advantage specific to lighting fire. Each ...