What is a hunting knife?
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What is a hunting knife?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “the knife from the hunted“
About Margaret
Start at the beginning, with respect to the U.S.
Knives were forged out by blacksmiths using steels of various alloys (whatever was handy) and designs as varied as there were makers. And they were expensive tools. Factories were set up as early as 1818 in the U.S., by the likes of the Messrs. Harrington of Massachusetts but they didn’t focus on hunter/skinners.
Along came John Russell in the fledgeling U.S. tool production industry (1834) and he set up a water-powered knife factory (also Massachusetts) to crank out the iconic “Green River” Russell Buffalo Skinner. He could sell them in boxes of a dozen for the same price as a single one-off hunting knife.
Apparently the shape and design was a big hit because it became “the hunter that tamed the west,” sold at provisioners and trading posts throughout the frontier. It’s still made and sold to this day. Dexter-Russell 5-inch Skinning Knife
As time went by, the designs around the world tended more towards the pointy/stickie shapes, probably because the frontier folk wanted something for self-defense, too.
But give me a razor sharpened Green River, plus my Havalon Piranta (field-changeable 60A scalpel blade) and stand back. The skinning, caping, gutting and parting shall commence.
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A hunting knife is any one of a number of designs intended to facilitate the skinning, gutting or butchering of game animals. There are dozens of designs with different lengths, blade points and blade thicknesses.
Designs may include a thick blade for processing game with thicker hides, like Buffalo or bears. Others may be specialized for skinning, gutting or sawing through bones.
Typical general-purpose hunting knife (above).
This pair of knives is advertised as a butchering knife and a gut-hook knife used for opening up the game. The butcher knife is used to skin and cut the meat and is strong enough to break bones when needed. The gut-hook has a sawtooth spine to allow sawing of heavier bones.
Short, wide blades like this are used mostly for skinning game. The short blade reduces the depth of a cut into the meat and the wide blade allows getting under the hide to separate it from the meat. Short knives like this are very useful when skinning around legs where bone is near the surface.
Another skinning knife, with a 6″ blade, for skinning large areas of the game. The curve allows a full length cut with the natural motion of the hand & wrist.
Fishing knives (red handle, above) are typically more slender and flexible, used to fillet your fish catch. Some may have serrations on the back for removing scales.
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A hunting knife is a knife used to process game in the field. Hunting knifes come in a wide variety of shape and sizes so there is no “one type” or style that is strictly a hunting knife. Many companies make knives that have features on them that will facilitate the processing of certain types of game in the field such as gut hooks or bone saw backs but make them useless for general purposes. Most of the time I think of a hunting knife as a fixed blade knife with a 5 to 6 inch blade carried in a leather belt sheath but this can also be a camp or survival knife style. When I was younger I used an Old Timer 3 blade pocket knife as a hunting knife for rabbits and squirrels for larger game I used a Gerber sheath knife (can’t remember the model) and both worked equally well to process the game I was hunting. A hunting knife is the knife that works best for you to process game in the field.
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Typically a fairly heavy single edged fixed blade knife, used for skinning and butchering game after it has been killed.
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Most ‘hunting knives’ are knives designed to facilitate the process of the hunt: mainly they aid in cleaning and skinning game, though some are also designed for heavier duty as tools for clearing brush.
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A somewhat large knife, slight curve, very sharp used for skinning of poor unfortinate animals and also for slitting their throats.,
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Well … a knife is usually a hand-held object of various lengths that has a handle at one end. The remainder of the object (except for the handle) is sharpened on one side until very sharp. The distal end of the object (away from the handle) is usually shaped into a point.
The above design makes the item excellent for cutting through material, flesh and hides.
It is called a “hunting knife” because on occasion the object will go out into a wooded area in search of a game animal to attack. Sometimes, if the knife has come from a poor environment or an environment where self-discipline and morals were not taught/enforced, like an AR-15 rifle … it will hunt down and attack/kill humans. I would refer you to the many experts on this subject commonly referred to as Liberals or Liberal Gun Haters.
Thank you for asking a very pertinent question.
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A fixed blade knife that is sharpened at the end so to facilitate you to field dress your game animal that you slew. It also can be a “filet knife” to scale your fish that you caught and must gut to prepare it for cooking. The blade needs to be 8–10 inches in length and sharp the sharper the better if you believe your knife is dull get it sharpened by using a whetting stone. One direction then you should get a good edge on it.
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Most hunting knives are fixed blade with a blade length of 4 inches or more carried in a sheath. SOG makes a 4″ stainless steel Field Knife for about $30. I prefer the SOG Traction model lockback with a 3.5″ blade for less than $30 which is light enough to drop into a pocket. It cuts anything I need to divide and stays sharp.
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Knives are essential equipment for hunters in the field. Hunting knives are designed to skin animals and slaughter them effortlessly, as the blade of these knives is extremely sharp with the perfect size to carry easily.
You should select the best hunting knife , so it can help you skin the animal and cut meat neatly for cooking purposes.
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