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.

The Hunting Knife is melee Weapon a in DayZ Standalone.

Hunting Knife can be used to skin and process any wildlife that you hunt, allowing you to obtain meat, and other animal products.

The Hunting Knife was mentioned in the changelog of 0.49 but wasn’t intoduced into the game until 0.52