"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. ...
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It is different from the Hunting dagger which was traditionally used to kill wild game.
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.
Hunting knives are also sometimes used as weapons or execution tools on humans in countries such as Mexico." - (en.wikipedia.org 08.04.2020)