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Hunting Knifes

Hunting knife are usually used to hunt animals or birds, hunting knife is most famous among the people whose hobby is hunting. In general the word hunting stands for killing of the living animals usually it is the wild animals, which is the hunt for the food, trade purpose which can be export, recreation etc…

While selecting hunting knife there are many elements which should be kept in the mind like the length of the blade, thickness of the blade, shape of the blade which plays an important role and depends on the type of hunt you are going for, the blade grind, what is the material used for the handle and the shape of the handle, the type of tang and steel.

Blade length – Usually for the purpose of games the length of the blade is 3.5-4.5”, it is suggested only for the experts to use these types of knives. While hunting where the 1-2” of the blade that is the cutting edge gets pierced into the animal. The thickness of the blade is 1/8” with 5/32” which makes your knife flexible and the geometry supports the purpose of hunting where the grip is good.
The shape of the blade is very important for the hunting and these factors are kept in the mind when we go for hunting knife that is point of the spear, drop point of the knife, clip point of the knife, upswept point of the knife you are using and the skinning of the knife. Only the experts can use any one of the above mentioned more efficiently. In most of the cases the shape of the hunting knife is the personal choice.

Grinds – they are of 4 types that is hollow, flat, convex grid, Sabre. All the mentioned grinds have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The hollow grind is made by taking the two concave scoops out of the blade side. This is most commonly used method in today’s world. The hollow grind should be done with full concentration if something goes wrong then this will become the worst among the grind and if it is done good then this will be the best grind. There are very few well done hollow grind blades which are commercially available. The hollow grid is also easy to sharpen since it has a thin edge, the other factor which is to be kept in mind is, thinner edges are more week. This grinding is not commonly used in hunting as it can’t penetrate too far again it depends on the type of hunting.

Flat grind – the name itself tells it is completely flat; it is generally not used for hunting it is best known for the slicing in the commercial market.

Convex grid – is where the blade curves down to the convex towards the edge, due to this character the edge is very sharp more or less the shape ends up to be like an axe. This type of grind is most commonly used for hunting wild animals.

Sabre grind – this a strong grind at the edge, it’s one of the less popular because of the bad grind, in spite of its bad grid, sabre grind which was used for hunting from century by the Scandinavians.

The material used for the handle are wood , leather, stag these are the materials used from years but now due to the improved technology there are lot more materials such as stabilized wood, kraton, reinforced fiberglass of nylon, plastics of various types. If the leather is used then lot of maintenance is required.

Types of tang
• Full tang
• Partial tang
• Stick tang

Full tang – It is usually in the shape of knife handle and extends fully to the length of the handle. This adds to the weight of the knife.

Partial tang – This is not to the length of the handle and usually hidden.

Stick tang – This is to the full length of the handle which is narrow and tightened by a screw at the butt.

The strongest of the above would be the full length tang which is more suitable for the hunter, anyways all the three are used for the hunting knife.

Coming to steel there are two types of steel material used to make hunter knife, as follows
• Carbon
• Stainless

In today’s market you can’t go by personal choice because most of the knife comes with the steel finish, you can find more good quality knife made out of carbon since they use low grade steel for making of the blades. The carbon blades can be sharpened easily than the stainless steel. But they are not common in todays market.

Finally you can make your choice of hunter knife keeping all the above factors in mind, which will help you in smooth hunting.



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