gut hook

Dressing knife feature

A gut hook is a small, sharpened curve on the spine of a hunting knife, designed for field dressing game.

The hook slips under the skin and slices upward, opening the belly without puncturing internal organs: He used the gut hook to open the deer cleanly.

The feature appears on fixed-blade and folding knives marketed to hunters.

field-dressing

eviscerate

Remove internal organs

skinningRemoving outer covering
butcheringProcessing animals into cuts
carcassSlaughtered animal's body

game processing · entrails · viscera · innards · offal · hide · pelts · quartering · deboning · meat preparation

hunting

deer

Antlered hoofed mammal

elkLarge North American cervid
mooseLargest cervid, northern forests
gameOrganized play or sport

hunter · harvesting · trophy · bowhunting · rifle · crossbow · season · license · tracking · stalking

knife

blade

Flat cutting edge

curvedSmoothly bent, not angular
skinningRemoving outer covering
handlePart for gripping

tang · sheath · steel · stainless · carbon · edge · sharpen · point · tip · honing

gut hook

eviscerate

deer

blade

gut hook

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