Patent ID: 8037612

Claim:
A handheld tactical knife comprising: a hilt; an elongated knife blade with a substantially triangular cross section; a flat spine on a top of said elongated knife blade, said spine tapers from said hilt to a tip of said elongated knife blade, wherein the tip of the knife blade has an end edge that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the knife blade; a main cutting edge on a bottom of said elongated knife blade; at least one scallop cut into said substantially triangular cross section along said main cutting edge, said at least one scallop transitioning into a gut hook; a gut hook tip on said gut hook; and a flat spreading surface between said gut hook tip and the end edge of the tip of the knife blade, wherein the substantially triangular cross section of said elongated knife blade transitions to a substantially trapezoidal cross section at the flat spreading surface.