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Post by twomoons on Mar 25, 2009 15:01:32 GMT -5
Since I am at least a part time mountain man i have carried for the last 30 years some type of tomahawk of hatchet when I treck the woods. I had a small hunters ax in a sheath mounted to the back of my hunting bag and it found a lot of use over the years. II have found a new old company that really makes some fine axes and the Hunnters is the best I have seen.
Gränsfors Bruks, making the finest axes since 1909! Gränsfors Axes are forged by very professional smiths. The proof of this professionalism is that they are able to forge axes with such precision that no supplementary work to hide mistakes in the forging is needed. A smith at Gränsfors Burks has nothing to hide and is proud of his professional standards. When he is satisfied with his work and has accepted his axe, he marks the head with his initials beside the company's crown label.
The Hunters model is a 1 1/2 pound head that comes toa very fine edge. The poll is smooth and rounded and can be used ofr seperating a hide from a big animal. The handle is straighter than a choppping ax and you can choke up on it and use the slightly rounded blade for skinning. The handle is 22 inches long and can be carried on a pack or in a canoe and yet the whole thing is just big enough to function as a complete camp ax.
Now these are spendy but they do come with a 20 year guarentee. I'll probably be toting one at turkey camp, hey the way the weather is here I'll be using it to chopp my camp out of the ICE!
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Post by jimh on Mar 25, 2009 15:45:11 GMT -5
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Post by twomoons on Mar 25, 2009 19:02:05 GMT -5
Should I have posted the price?  Nahh no need to give Red a heart attack. |
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Post by deputydon on Mar 25, 2009 21:23:01 GMT -5
Should I have posted the price? Nahh no need to give Red a heart attack. |
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Post by Jack on Mar 25, 2009 22:13:37 GMT -5
;D ;D Red would have a heart attack, too!
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Post by jimiowa on Mar 26, 2009 7:49:50 GMT -5
Ah Yes but it is a joy to use a Quality Tool.
I find myself playing head games with myself on tool purchases.
If I buy Cheap tools I don't value them and tend to neglect them and abuse them. So I Try to buy Professional Quality tools(probably better than my skills justify) Then they have value to me and I take better care of them. That way they will last my lifetime and will be my sons inheritance.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Mar 29, 2009 17:10:34 GMT -5
I've got two 1. A 10 dollar Coleman. Someone decided to use it to cut firewood on a concrete pad. That guy was an idiot. So that has chunks taken out of it  2. I found an old hatchet last fall when driving by the campgrounds. Dull as a bone but it was free ;D I don't have much use for a hachet other than breaking a deer's pelvic bone and driving in tent stakes. I'd much rather be using a saw for cutting small pieces of firewood. |
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Post by jabba on Mar 30, 2009 6:51:38 GMT -5
Using a hatchet to break a deer's pelvic bone...
Wow... man, you are a BARBARIAN!
Jabba
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Post by bounce on Mar 30, 2009 8:33:39 GMT -5
Nothing better for a deer's pelvic bone. jmo from a barbarian All theise post and I still don't know what the darn ax cost.  ;D |
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Post by twomoons on Mar 30, 2009 9:44:17 GMT -5
Alll right! $147 bucks !
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Post by twomoons on Mar 30, 2009 9:55:45 GMT -5
Red, I tend to do things like back pack the rockies and canoe the boundry waters and such and in those places a good az is a must. In fact you are required by law to take a saw and and ax and a folding bucket into some of the areas. If you are on top a mountain 50 miles from nowhere and something breaks or you can't get it sharp again you are just SOL. I was on top of a mountain one time when a screw fell out of my glasses and the lens fell out. Since I was backpacking i neglected a spare set so we spent 4 hours making and riviting a repair to those glasses. Imagine a week in the mountains 1/2 blind. Worse still to not have a good ax when it is time to chop a fire break or make a streacher or splints.
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Post by Jack on Mar 30, 2009 11:53:18 GMT -5
I have to agree that a good ax is a vital tool if you're really out in the wayback.
A full sized ax is pretty heavy, if you're on foot.
I have a Hudson Bay style 3/4 ax that I like, but it's still heavy for backpacking. Collins makes a good one, although mine is 30 years old- I don't know if Collins is still around.
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Post by jabba on Mar 30, 2009 12:22:20 GMT -5
Well, if a deer is big enough that splitting the pelvic bone with a knife isn't feasible, then I have a zip saw. If not that... then I just cut the but our of it... and pull it thru to the inside, and leve the pelvic bone intact. Smashing it with an axe has to damage the poop chute, which is the WHOLE point of cutting it out IMO.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Mar 30, 2009 22:56:19 GMT -5
Smashing it with an axe has to damage the poop chute, which is the WHOLE point of cutting it out IMO. Well yeah, if you "smash" it with a hachet I'm sure you're going to make a bit of a mess.  You just give it a few light taps until it breaks. Then you can step on the hind leg to sort of pry it apart. In the end, you have easy access to an undisturbed poop chute  |
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Post by bounce on Mar 30, 2009 23:39:58 GMT -5
$147 should not smash anything but cut like a hot nife in soft butter
My favorit is my squaw hawk, But I need new handels for it and they are hard to find.
It was always my carry Hawk But the kids broke my last handel I had and I haven't found a new one yet.
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Nahh no need to give Red a heart attack. 
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