My dad, brother and myself were just starting to butcher a deer I shot a couple years ago. After working on it for literally less than 5 minutes, I pulled the iron out of the knife block to sharpen my knife but bound up the iron in the block as I was drawing it, causing the block to tip. I reached over with my other hand really fast to catch the block before it dumped all the knives out but ended up catching a blade on a knife in the block with the tip of a finger on my left hand. Cut me nearly all the way to the bone, about 3/4" long, right on the tip. I got to spend the next couple hours in the ER getting stitches. The shot of novicaine was the worst part of it - the syringe looked like somehting you' d use on livestock and they administered it on both sides of my finger.... in the web area. It' s giving me the cold sweats just thinking about it right now.....[X(]

With my finger all wrapped up in gauze and med tape the size of a golf ball, I couldn' t really help butcher my own deer after that[:' (].