Bag axes

[Rifleman1776]

I kinda shake my head in wonder and sadness when I see mention of a fine handle being made for a 'hawk. Or of somebody buying 'a' new handle. There seems to be a law of nature that the nicer the handle the sooner it is going to break and/or some jerk at an event will decide to "play handles" without yer permission and ruin it real quick. I have built a couple real nice handles and they didn't last a fruit fly life span at rendezvous. I always have several extras on hand and, now, never fancy them up. Seems like I haven't changed handles in years. It aught to be legal to do nasty things to people who "handle hunt". :wink:

 

[tg]

I used to have a 'vous hawk for tossing at the stumps and kept my good hatchet for hunting/camping I never considered tossing my good one any more than throwing my good knife at the target block, way to short of life span

 

[KJGROHS]

I'm like TG got the clunker to tosss at the hawk block, have an original French trade hatchet head on a custom curly ( real unusual) hickory handle, and a ft meigs hatchet attached to one of my shooting bags, not real pc/hc for my chosen time period, but deer pelvis don't care.

 

[KJGROHS]

I'm like TG got the clunker to tosss at the hawk block, have an original French trade hatchet head on a custom curly ( real unusual) hickory handle, and a ft meigs hatchet attached to one of my shooting bags, not real pc/hc for my chosen time period, but deer pelvis don't care, nor does light small walk in camps, don't need much

 

[longshot47]

Not sure I know what 'handle hunting' is, but I always try to do most of my chopping, shaving and splitting with the head, not the handle :hatsoff:

 

[BrownBear]

Not sure I know what 'handle hunting' is, but I always try to do most of my chopping, shaving and splitting with the head, not the handle :hatsoff:

:rotf:

Same here. I don't picture a bag axe being used in any of the events being discussed, but what do I know.

For me a bag axe is a field tool, and I go one step further. Mine goes IN my bag (actually my possible bag rather than shooting bag) and not on it. Smaller and shorter than a belt axe, and waiting patiently in the bag for use on jobs too big for a knife but too small to require a big ole axe like those in pictures I see of events.

Next guy to stand up will define a bag axe completely different than I do. Fine. He's the one carrying and using it for his own purposes.

 

[mtcurman]

This is a lightweight belt/bag axe I made up from a head picked up at Dixon's fair about a coupla years ago. Shaved out the haft to a balance that suits me and found it to be a very handy tool. It's small, but it's got a big appetite.

That is simply stunning! :thumbsup:

 

[Rifleman1776]

Not sure I know what 'handle hunting' is, but I always try to do most of my chopping, shaving and splitting with the head, not the handle :hatsoff:

:rotf:

Same here. I don't picture a bag axe being used in any of the events being discussed, but what do I know.

For me a bag axe is a field tool, and I go one step further. Mine goes IN my bag (actually my possible bag rather than shooting bag) and not on it. Smaller and shorter than a belt axe, and waiting patiently in the bag for use on jobs too big for a knife but too small to require a big ole axe like those in pictures I see of events.

Next guy to stand up will define a bag axe completely different than I do. Fine. He's the one carrying and using it for his own purposes.

Would like to see a picture of it.