Benchmade does not add families to the Hunt Collection often, which is why the Slipridge landed with so much noise for 2026. It is a matched pair — folder and fixed blade — built around stonewashed MagnaCut with Benchmade's SelectEdge ultra-fine sharpening process, in your choice of dark stabilized wood or high-visibility Rust Orange G10. Both are made in the USA, and both arrive as the newest hunting-first designs in the Benchmade lineup.
The folder answers the oldest complaint about hunting folders: what happens inside the handle. Full liner construction with user-removable scales hides the pivot, keeps debris out, and lets you pop the scales off for a real cleaning after field dressing instead of a toothpick-and-hope job. The 3.5 inch full-bellied modified clip point carries noticeably more blade than the EDC folders it shares a pocket with, driven by next-generation AXIS Lock, ambidextrous thumb studs, and a pocket clip that swaps right or left, tip up. It builds on what the North Fork and Taggedout started, and plenty of people will press it into duty as a hard-use everyday carry between seasons.
The fixed version stretches to a 3.7 inch MagnaCut drop point in the same 2.9mm stock and handle materials, sized deliberately between the Saddle Mountain Skinner and the Steep Country for big-game work. The modular Boltaron sheath rearranges for multiple carry configurations, and it is compatible with Benchmade's Slipridge gut hook, sold separately, which handles the zipper cuts before the fine work starts. At under four ounces it disappears on a hunting belt, and alongside the rest of our Benchmade fixed blade knives it is the one built specifically for the harvest. Wood if you want an heirloom, G10 if you want it found in the leaves — the same steel underneath either way.