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Hunting knife
Type of knife used during hunting / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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See also: Hunting weapon
A hunting knife is a knife used during hunting for preparing the game to be used as food: skinning the animal and cutting up the meat. It is different from the hunting dagger which was traditionally used to kill wild game.[1]
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Some hunting knives are adapted for other uses in the wild; such as a camp knife, which hunters may use as machetes or hatchets when those specific tools are not available. In this case, their function is similar to a survival knife.