Are you ready for some "hard use" knife blasphemy? The best knife for digging in wood and prying is a cheap old bayonet or one of those 420J2 wonders. ANY knife with a fine point will either lose its point or have it bent if you put enough lateral force on a small area. I would never do much of it with any of my good knives unless it was a true emergency survival situation. Get a Crash Axe! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> If you are out in the bush and several days from civilization, use your knife with due care. I'm not saying you can't drill or pry at all, but try to keep lateral forces to a minimum. The last thing you want to do is break your knife miles into the Altamaha River swamps. You might need it to stick a gator.
When I was a Boy Scout, some 20+ years ago, I was cutting some stuff with my Buck 110 folder and then sticking the knife into a tree stump in between cutting tasks. I guess one time when I went to pull it out I pulled slightly sideways and lost about an inch of the tip. I was so sad.
Ever since then, I don't stick knife tips into wood, even my hard use knives.
Humans are fairly strong animals, multiply that by the lever arm of the knife, and the fact that the tip is the smallest thinnest part, and its trouble waiting to happen with even the toughest steel.
