Patent ID: 8512107

Claim:
A knife comprising: a body having a handle section and a blade housing section that extends substantially perpendicular from the handle section, the blade housing section having a bottom edge, a top edge, and a hook portion, wherein the handle section is rigidly affixed to the blade housing section; and a blade affixed within the blade housing section and having a skinning edge and a hook cutting edge; wherein the skinning edge of the blade extends below the bottom edge of the blade housing section, the bottom edge functioning as a guard that prevents the skinning edge from entering a carcass and damaging at least one of meat, hide and internal organs of the carcass during field dressing; wherein the hook cutting edge of the blade extends above the top edge of the blade housing section, wherein the hook portion of the blade housing section extends beyond the hook cutting edge and functions to lift at least one of skin and hide of a carcass away from at least one of meat and internal organs of the carcass as the hook cutting edge is moved through the carcass during field dressing, thereby preventing the hook cutting edge from contacting at least one of meat and internal organs of the carcass.