Thread: Best hunting knife unders $100?

I think that it is hard to go past a hollow ground knife for general butchery work. Some of the custom knives have quite a thick blade ( making them tiring to use) and while they have superior steel to butchers type knives and are better for cutting branches etc, if it was economic in knife cost versus savings in labour for steeling and stoning I think butchers and freezing works would move to the 'improved' steels. The fact that they dont - and knife cost is only a small component cost of those businesses, suggests to me that good quality butchers knives are the best buy. The Bahcos are very good as a deer gutting and fishing knife and great steel for the money but not quite the right shape for a 'do all' knife imo.