SOG TOMAHAWK

[bearfoot]

always wanted a tomahawk for a survial tool. i"ve been useing it for yard work. everyone has those crappy roots that come thru the soil, dulling lawnmower blades. hanging limbs. just follow the root, uncover the surface dirt, a few strikes, root gone. have to be careful of rocks. breaks most, but dulled the blade the other day. filed another edge, sharper than before. a tree limb, several chops, off. care should be taken, practiceing w/ controled chops/ swing, a good grip. bought one for my brotherinlaw, a xmas gift. he said he uses it for takeing a pig apart at a BBQ. but for field work it has many uses. what other tomahawks, hatchets do you use? other uses.

 

[snubbyfan]

I had this one. Hand forged iron head with a hammer welded steel insert. I hand fitted the handle and did the shrink to fit leather wrap.
Somebody made me an offer I couldn't refuse and I sold it.

One day I'm gonna get another one. Every Injun needs a good Tomahawk.

We've been using my wife's hammer/hatchet. She like to fling it into trees when we go camping.

 

[brucev]

The SOG is something to which I've given some attention. I have a small Plumb axe that while not a true hatchet is certainly not a full scale axe... sort of in the middle, maybe like a boys axe. Other than heavy splitting, etc., it is very much like a hatchet, ideal for just about anything that needs cutting with a hand tool.

 

[Maze 686]

I don't know how I got along without one for so long. I use it for brush clearing and tree trimming.

 

[charlie sherrill]

Last year I bought an Estwing camp axe. It's smaller than an axe but larger than a hatchet. It's one of the handiest tools I own, of very good quality, and made right here in the U.S. Around $50.00.

 

[feralmerril]

Years ago my dad was butchering a beef with a roofing hatchet. It had a flat square on the back of it. It was sort of knurled with little squares. Dad tried hitting the back of the hatchet with a hammer to get through bone. A square piece of one of those square knurls flew up into his eye! No one was home so he drove one handed with the other over his eye to the doctor. He said the doctor somehow had to take his eye out of the socket to get that metal chip out from behind his eye! Just thinking about that again makes my skin crawl!

 

[adams484]

EEEWWW!!! Hardened steel on steel bad mix...

Years ago my dad was butchering a beef with a roofing hatchet. It had a flat square on the back of it. It was sort of knurled with little squares. Dad tried hitting the back of the hatchet with a hammer to get through bone. A square piece of one of those square knurls flew up into his eye! No one was home so he drove one handed with the other over his eye to the doctor. He said the doctor somehow had to take his eye out of the socket to get that metal chip out from behind his eye! Just thinking about that again makes my skin crawl!

Yep gonna put somebody's eye out mom always said. Guess he did it literally. Hope the doc fixed him up ok. Why is it that the eyes have this attracting characteristic. Ever squeeze a lemon and have it spit in your eye with the accuracy of a marksman? Come on the odds of a lemon at counter level hitting the square area of your eye are astronomical! I wish I could shoot that consistent. But it will happen every time as your eyes are like black holes and suck everything in motion towards them. But heck who wears safety glasses to butcher meat or squeeze lemons?

 

[old bear]

Estwing camp axe.

I've had one of these for 10 + years, and it's great for lite yard work and occasional wood splitting. The bonded rubber handle is almost a joy on 60+ Y/O hands and forearms.

 

[shouldazagged]

Last year I bought an Estwing camp axe. It's smaller than an axe but larger than a hatchet. It's one of the handiest tools I own, of very good quality, and made right here in the U.S. Around $50.00.

Sounds like the Hudson Bay-type ax--handle about twenty-two inches? It's a really useful pattern.

 

[feralmerril]

Yes, dad turned out okay on that deal. I remember him wearing a pirate patch for a little while. Here is another one on him. Dad had a prominent scar on his right eye lid. He told me when he was a kid he was standing behind watching his older brother cast. The plug hooked him right through the eyelid and his brother led him home with the fishing rod! Dad said he was screaming like a Comanche! Grandpa cut the barb off the hook and got it out. Another time I started to snatch a fishing plug out of my cousins hand. It hooked him good! The barb was sunk deep in his thumb. Dad got ahold of the hook and shoved it on through and out. My cousin was tough and didnt holler or cry. His dad was a professional wrestler and must have trained him right.

 

[gdnagle]

Years ago my dad was butchering a beef with a roofing hatchet. It had a flat square on the back of it. It was sort of knurled with little squares. Dad tried hitting the back of the hatchet with a hammer to get through bone. A square piece of one of those square knurls flew up into his eye! No one was home so he drove one handed with the other over his eye to the doctor. He said the doctor somehow had to take his eye out of the socket to get that metal chip out from behind his eye! Just thinking about that again makes my skin crawl!

Glad your dad recovered. Not fun going through life without depth perception. Lesson learned never hit harden steel with harden steel.

OP I have several SOG's and they work well for me.

 

[HankG]

Watch "Vikings" on The History Channel, 9:00 P.M. Central Time on Thursday. They'll teach you how to use a hand ax properly.

 

[fat tom]

You might want to take a look at the "2 Hawks" line. A little pricey at $125-$150 depending on which model you select. Cool hawks nonetheless!



f.t.

 

[mc5aw]

H&B Forge makes quality repro hawks at affordable prices, and Beaver Bill makes some high end traditional hawk designs at bigger prices.

 

[Horseless Trooper]

I keep a tomahawk under my car seat that a cousin of mine made for me. He thought it was weird that I had an axe in my car and thought the tomahawk made more sense. I keep a Cold Steel rifleman's hawk in my truck.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

May be not quite an axe, but its a lot of things. Check out the Woodsman Pal, still made in PA. I have a WWII PX purchase with survival manual and a combat manual.

 

[bburnette252]

Picked up this SOG tactical tomahawk at Walmart for $20. Good size to carry wherever, very lightweight, somewhat sharp (it needed a little help out of the box), I'd recommend it.


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[Mule Packer]

Here are a couple of mine that I use. I always keep one of these in the truck. Hand-forged by Wetterling.

And I usually keep one either in the house or out by the woodshed for splitting kindling.

 

[Kilibreaux]

always wanted a tomahawk for a survial tool. i"ve been useing it for yard work. everyone has those crappy roots that come thru the soil, dulling lawnmower blades. hanging limbs. just follow the root, uncover the surface dirt, a few strikes, root gone. have to be careful of rocks. breaks most, but dulled the blade the other day. filed another edge, sharper than before. a tree limb, several chops, off. care should be taken, practiceing w/ controled chops/ swing, a good grip. bought one for my brotherinlaw, a xmas gift. he said he uses it for takeing a pig apart at a BBQ. but for field work it has many uses. what other tomahawks, hatchets do you use? other uses.

No need to rationalize owning a Tomahawk. Tomahawks make outstanding CQB weapons and when the day comes that every bullet that can be, be conserved, Tomahawks will have huge appeal! Not like they don't today.

A Tomahawk really isn't built for chopping limbs...they're too light. What they are built for is bashing people in the head.

 

[Smith357]

You might want to take a look at the "2 Hawks" line. A little pricey at $125-$150 depending on which model you select. Cool hawks nonetheless!



f.t.

After pricing out some other hand made hawks Devin Price's line of Hawks at 2 Hawks are not all that expensive. I found I liked the LongHunter hawk so much I bought a second Hawk. I went with the CompThrower because the hammer pole on the LongHunter digs into my belly when I wear it tucked in my belt.

I have had Hawks since I was 12, I got hooked on them when my Uncle Johnny started taking me to Friendship IN for the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association events. I find the hawk a nice light tool for doing light chopping, and a superb tool for close combat.

Keeping the tread on topic this is my SOG Hawk, I leave it in my trunk along with the Cold Steel Kukri Machete as part of my "get home" kit. I'm not sure how well SOG's stainless holds up on a chopper, the few stainless hawks that I have had over the years were junk, suitable only for wall hanging. I have yet to use the SOG for anything more than prop in a picture.