Free Shipping
Made In USA
Benchmade Hunt Series
The Benchmade Hunt Series is the company's dedicated line of American-made hunting knives, built around fixed blades that get used on real animals rather than displayed on shelves. Every knife in the series carries Benchmade's SelectEdge 14 degree edge angle for cleaner cuts through hide and joint, and every one is backed by LifeSharp service, which covers resharpening and restoration free for the life of the knife. The series sits alongside the broader Benchmade knives catalog but answers a different question: what do you want in your hand when the animal is down. Our breakdown of Benchmade's knife classes explains where the Hunt line fits in the company's lineup.
The Benchmade North Fork and Hidden Canyon Hunter
The North Fork brings the Hunt Series into folder territory with a classic drop point that rides in a pocket all season, while the Hidden Canyon Hunter is the compact fixed blade of the line, a short, high-control caper and detail knife that excels at precision work around the shoulders and hams. Between the two, they cover the whitetail hunter who wants one knife that does everything from field dressing to fine trimming without a full processing kit.
Saddle Mountain Skinner, Steep Country, and Raghorn
The Saddle Mountain Skinner is the workhorse of the series, a full-size skinner with enough belly to run long strokes down a carcass and enough spine for splitting through cartilage. The Steep Country strips the same idea down to a lighter pack knife for backcountry elk and mule deer hunts where ounces matter, the Raghorn pushes further into the ultralight mountain-hunting class, and the Altitude takes minimalist skeleton-handle construction about as far as it goes. For game processing at camp or in the kitchen, the trailing-point Meatcrafter finishes what the skinners start.
Benchmade Hunt Series Steel and the SelectEdge Grind
Blade steel across the series runs premium powder metallurgy, from CPM MagnaCut to Elmax depending on model, chosen for edge retention through hide and hair that dulls lesser steel in a single animal. The SelectEdge grind is the quiet advantage: a thinner, more acute factory edge than nearly anything else in the production hunting market. The series also feeds two families deep enough to earn their own pages, the Crooked River folders and the TaggedOut ultralights, and the full hunting knives collection holds every field blade we stock across all brands.