Nothing tests a knife like a hunting trip, and there are few experiences more frustrating then trying to dress game with a dull edge. We don’t hunt as much as we hike here, but many of our writers have plenty of hunting trips under their belt as well as experience in butcher shops, and know where knives tend to get uncomfortable, or where edge usually fail when skinning a deer or piecing out a boar.
We tend to review and rate hunting knives here mostly according to their edge retention, corrosion resistance, and ability to separate a pelvic bone without breaking the tip.
The Most Aggressively Full Tang Finnish Hunting Knife is Also Their Weirdest Looking It feels rude to say Marttiini is the better looking but lesser known Mora alternative, but that’s how it’s been for a while. At least, it was until the YouTubers discovered them. Also until now, Marttiini has mostly made half to three-quarter …
A Classic Looking Damascus Steel Fixed Blade That Is A Handy Campsite Tool. The Forseti Steel Jim Baker would look right at home in a camping scene in an old black and white movie from the 50s. Its design lacks the popular fighter-jet aesthetic of modern tactical fixed blades, or the over simplified scaled-back barebones …
This Beefy Tactical Hunting Hybrid Knife is a Fun Work Horse, but It’s Tough to Find If You Drop It At Night. The Backcountry is refreshing as a modern design that is clearly meant for gritty uses. I recently watched a flashy video promo for a popular knife company. It was part lifestyle, part knife …
My Cheap D2 Folder is Better than Your Expensive Supersteel I will die on my cheap muddy hill about this. In the right hands, D2 steel can have better edge retention and overall performance for the price than pretty much any other option on the market (but I’m also clearly biased toward budget steels). D2 …
We Tested a Whole Bunch of Survival, Tactical, Kitchen And Pocket Knives To Make This 2021 Gift List. There are so many choices these days when it comes to choosing the perfect knife to give as birthday or holiday gift this year. We understand that it can be overwhelming, so the writers here at Nothing …
A Tough, Versatile Hard Use Flipper That Looks Kinda Weird, But Slices Like A Dream I always act like a kid at Christmas when a new flipper arrives in the mail. I open the package quickly using the last folding knife I ordered and immediately begin flipping the new knife open and then closing it …
A Pretty Knife that is Tough Enough for the Wilderness The Forseti Steel Ironside Tracker is a good looking knife, but it doesn’t let its looks define it. This knife can take the type of beating survival knives should all be made to endure. That is not to say that I didn’t find some issues …
A Great Hunting and Camping Knife that’s Made for Slicing not for Hacking I love this knife and you should have it too. Full stop. End of review. I’m going to write a bunch of other words below this sentence, but only because my girlfriend is tired of hearing me rant about my surprise at …
This is a Decent Survival Knife that Tries Too Hard to Look Good I’ve wanted a Boker Arbolito knife for a while. From afar they look like the fashionable version of Condor: they’re made in South America but owned by reputable German companies based in Solingen, they have a polished if old-fashioned aesthetic, and their …
The Okayest Customizable Camping and Survival Knife Time has been kind to the ESEE 4. That has a lot to do with ESEE’s move to make their knives easy to modify, and offer a dozen different handle, blade, and sheath options for all their designs. The ability to customize an ESEE 4 pushes it from …
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