Description
The Bonefang Hunter is a hand-sized drop point with a twist-pattern blade and a handle built in three materials: white buffalo bone at the butt, a band of dark hardwood at the front, and a thin green spacer holding the two apart.
| Steel | 1095 + 15N20 Damascus, 352 layers |
| Handle | White buffalo bone with a dark hardwood band |
| Hardness | 58–60 HRC, oil tempered |
| Included | Hand-stitched leather sheath |
Right for: a first serious hunting knife, or a second one you are not afraid to use. The blade fills a palm and no more. There is a wide belly for skinning, a strong drop point that will not perforate a paunch, and a spine thick enough to take a baton if you ever need to split kindling with it. It arrives in a stitched leather sheath.
Twist pattern, and how it differs
Twist Damascus is made by taking a stacked billet and rotating it under heat before drawing it out. The layers spiral rather than stack flat, so grinding the bevel cuts through them at a constant angle and produces the tight, ropey figure you see running the length of this blade. It looks busier than a ladder pattern and far more organic than raindrop. On a hunting knife that has a practical side too: a heavily figured surface disguises the scuffs that a season in a sheath will hand you.
Buffalo bone
The pale scales are water buffalo bone, undyed, so the color is the natural bone tone rather than a stain that can wear. Bone is dense and cool to the touch, and it grips reasonably even when wet, though it is less forgiving than horn if you drop the knife on rock. Brass pins run through the scales along with a single mosaic pin at the rear, a small decorative pattern set in the middle of the handle. The hardwood front section takes the wear from the sheath throat, which is where a handle usually shows its age first.
Working through a season
This is a knife that will do a whole deer without needing a touch-up, provided you keep it off bone and off gravel. Where owners get into trouble is after dark: the knife goes back in the sheath still bloody, the leather holds the moisture against the steel, and by the weekend there are spots.
Care. Rinse the blade in clean water while it is still fresh, dry it thoroughly, and oil it before it goes anywhere near the sheath. Store the two separately over the off-season. Buffalo bone needs no feeding and dislikes being soaked; wipe it and let it dry at room temperature rather than near a heater, which can make bone crack along its length. The green spacer is a synthetic and needs nothing. If you catch a rust spot early, a light rub with oil and a cork lifts it before it pits.
Buyers ask
Does a Damascus hunter actually rust? It does, being high carbon. The detail is in do Damascus knives rust.
Is this the right size for field dressing? Yes. Our Damascus hunting knife guide works through blade length.
Is there a colored bone version? The Blue Phantom in dyed buffalo bone is the same idea with the color turned up.
Model: BMK-641
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