Here are our top picks. I’m a hobbyist knife maker and compulsive knife buyer. Over the last ten years, I’ve used an assortment of blades to field dress and butcher deer, elk, and small game. I’ve ...

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 ...