Who totes a hatchet for hunting?

[PigStikker]

I actually hunt with a hatchet and carry my bow for backup or if I can't get close enough.   :D

Matt

[Ron LaClair]

Two things I wouldn't be without in the woods, my knife and my Hawk.    

 

[Green Arrow]

I got a shrew hawk from Ron last year and man i love it.  (thanks again Ron!)  i was trying to put a sheath on my quiver like ole blackhawk (beautiful quiver by the way)  but i ended up making a belt sheath and i've carried it several times.  did a rabbit hunt last weekend and i never used the hawk but it is so light i never knew it was there.  i use it all the time doing chores etc... and used it last year to scrape a hide out in no time.  it is with me all the time  

Kyle

[sparkyflint]

pigsticker-I think Tred Barta wants to have a talk with you!

[madness522]

Hey Blackhawk I love the MacGyver quiver. Great idea!  What weight leather is that?  It looks kinda floppy, but in a good way.

[Roger Norris]

I go back and forth between a ShrewHawk and a BIG Natchez Bowie. I use a large heavy blade for chopping more than anything else...a deer's pelvis, brushing in a blind, etc.

[Tony Phillips]

I carry this sometimes.

[James Wrenn]

I bought one of the small Firestorm hand axes last year.It is very light weight and will drop in the bottom of a day pack or fanny pack if you don't want to wear it on your belt.Not much for chopping firewood but comes shaving sharp and is easy to keep that way.Works great for getting a dead animal skinned out,cut up and into bags.While not heavy it is sharp enough a two handed push will go though the pelvis of whitetails with no problem.I bought it on sale for $20 and it is one of those things where you know the money was well spent.  

[Izzy]

Ever consider a "smatchet" type tool? More of a cleaver on steroids type knife but theyre compact and work great.I have a Smith and Wesson bullseye that was given to me and its a solid tool.

[swp]

What is the best method to sharpen a tomahawk? I have always used a whetstone (flat) but have heard that a round stone works well.

[pjsnell]

I use a wetterling hunter hatchet, but have been eyeing the hawks in the latest Cabelas catalog.  Might be a waste of twenty bucks, might not...

[JStark]

I bought a cheapo hatchet and ground the blade with my dremel tool, to use for field dressing.  For the other chores I use a Corona machete, which came in very handy in scraping hide, as well as chopping wood, making kindling, etc.

[Bill Turner]

Gerber makes a hatchet which I have found quite handy for blazing trails, building ground blinds etc. I carried it with me on a Alaskan Moose hunt thinking that it might come in handy. It did, but unfortunatly not on dismantling a moose. I also have a Knives of Alaska Brown Bear skinner that I would highly recommend.

[curlis]

Here is what I carry. Made by Rick Evans.

[curlis]

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Try this

[adkmountainken]

i often carry a hawk, allways carry a long knife or bowie. have always loved a good hawk and they are very useful. Skillet from this site makes a nice railroad spike hawk that i carry a lot. also a good friend of mine made a very unique hawk that i take along often. as far as survival if i had to chhose it would be a toss up between a big bowie and a good hawk. heres a couple pic's of my hawk built by a friend.

[Scott S.]

I had a beautiful throwing hawk and sold it several years back because at the time, I never used it or thought I ever would.  It is one of the biggest "wish I'd have kept that"s that I have.  This past hunting season, I bought a very cheap hawk to take deer hunting.  I thought I would use it for brushing out ground blinds and hopefully split a deer pelvis.  No joy on the latter, but it did come in useful for clearing shooting lanes and it came in handy unexpectedly when I had to use it as a hook to grab a branch that I could not reach when I stepped around an obstacle on the edge of a steep drop off.  I will probably carry one most of the time from my experiences last season.

[Gray Buffalo]

I carry a mouse hawk while hunting. It comes in real handy at times and is light weight.

[Tox Collector]

I carry a double bit belt axe made by Lee Reeves Bladesmith.  If you google "Lee Reeves Bladesmith", you can see pictures of his axes.  He also makes a single blade belt axe as well as knives.  The double bit is modeled after Nessmuk (George Washington Sears), who in the late 1800's wrote about traveling by canoe in the Adirondacks.  He believed in traveling light.  Plumb (see cooperhandtools.com) also makes a single bit Hunter's belt axe that weighs 1.25 lb.  Snow and Nealley, Bangor, ME makes a "young camper's belt axe - 15 inch handle weighing 1.25 lbs. (see: snowandnealley.com).  Both the Plumb and Snow and Nealley axes come with sheaths as does Lee Reeve's axes.  I also like to carry a saw.  I used to carry a Gerbers but now carry a Turbo Cut Camp Saw (6 oz. - 7 inch blade -- with sheath).  It is easily accomodated in my fanny pack.  It's available from the Voyageur Trading Post (Boundary Waters Journal) -- boundarywatersjournal.com.

[bentpole]

Wasn't there a thread a year or two ago about these fighting type hatchets that a trad ganger had or sold  they were  made  for Special Forces in NAM?Any body? Yeh one of those or a  Shrew Hawk would be something I would carry after reading that wolf/moose thread WOOOO FAAAA