I've never been much of one for "digging in wood", though I have been known to use a knife as a drill by spinning the tip back and forth. I never felt like this was particularly tough on the tip. I'd like to experiment with digging into thick wood if possible, as far as shaping bowls and troughs and other concave shapes. But how much stress can something like the DFCG practically take on the tip? The body itself I have complete confidence in, but all knives get thin at the tip and you can apply some serious leverage to it...

So. Any words of wisdom? Preferred grip? Better to stab and pry, or to use the knife basically as a chisel? With a baton? Maybe wrap the handle in a rag to preserve the ResC and allow strikes to the pommel. Better to go in parallel to the grain, or crosswise to sever it? Is tip digging useful enough to even bother? Or is one basically always better off with the scoring system.

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well the DFCG's tip in particular will be able to handle anything you throw at as far as wood is concerned by using body weight and force alone.

if you start using tools to aid you then that could change deciding on how extreme you where to get.

something like the S6 has a slimmer,pointier tip that technically should be more fragile but even then its still SR77.

i personally have no need to dig into anything.all my camp chores concerning knives consist of chopping,batoning and cutting.in the woods i just never have the need to bore a hole an anything.

For what you are describing I'd use the sharpened pry bar (DMCG) if I had one. beating on the side of the res C handles doesn't seem to hurt them much but I remember a photo from a dog who beat on the end of his and wore a hole in it. I think it was eatingmuchface but I'm not sure.

Actually a drop point is tougher tan a clip point but a clip penetrates better.
Still I don't think you have much to worry about with the Scrapyard clip point.
The Buck 119 maybe but the Scrapyard clip point is pretty beefy.

i wouldnt suggest beating on the res-c.

my DFLE's res-c has some tears in it,one about an inch long from having to strike the handle with a baton after getting the blade stuck in a log.

the res-c is really stuck between a rock and a hard place.its flush up against the tang and then the baton.it actually gets eaten up pretty quick in my experience.

i think the butt will take a little bit more abuse as i had my main problems on the side of the handle and the palm swell and this was all just one time.after that i never did it again.

your going to need something with an exposed tang if you want to start hammering.