Perhaps the most important task for hunting knives is processing game in the field and on the ... Over the last ten years, I’ve used an assortment of blades to field dress and butcher deer, elk, and ...

You really want a small hunting knife to field dress a deer. What you’re doing is akin to surgery, and you wouldn’t want a surgeon to pull your appendix out with a bowie knife. That said ...

While I couldn’t test each knife equally on these skills, I’ve carried several of these blades in the field with me and used them for processing whitetail deer, elk, and fish. Purpose-built hunting ...