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 ...

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 ...

Any good survival knife should also perform reasonably well as a hunting knife capable of skinning, basic field dressing, and meat processing. While I couldn’t test each knife equally on these skills, ...