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.

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 ...

Survival knives are your backcountry skeleton key. They are specialized at not specializing. They need to carve wood, process game, start a fire, and take on hard-use cutting. I tested a variety of ...