Patent ID: 7578731

Claim:
A method of field dressing small and large game carcasses, including severing bone and cartilage, using a knife comprising a handle having a butt-end and a blade having a tip, the blade having a first thickness for strength and tapering to a second thickness at one edge to be as thin as reasonably possible for cutting, said tip having at least one thickness that is closer to the second thickness than to the first thickness of the blade, said method comprising: configuring the knife handle butt-end with a larger surface area than a cross-sectional area of a midsection of the knife handle; arranging a longitudinal axis of the handle to be substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the blade; placing the tip of the blade to a bone; striking the butt-end of the handle with a free hand to drive the tip into the bone; and wherein the configuring of the knife handle butt-end with a larger surface area comprises configuring the knife blade handle butt-end with a surface area of between 1.35 and 10 square inches.