Who is carrying a hawk/tomahawk while hunting or scouting?

[mjh]

Recently aquired a Vector Hawk.  Will be useing from now on when I scout, will keep handy in the rig or in camp.  Most of the farm land hunting I do won't require it each and every time I'm out hunting. Vec has a website mostly of older versions of his work, newer versions can be seen a dirttime dot com or hoodswoods dot com search for Hawks.

[Mike Most]

I am fortunate to have acquired a shrew hawk and it goes to the woods a lot.

[Gatekeeper]

I once saw a guy carrying a hatchet, a Samurai Sword and a bow while hunting pigs…brah

[wihill]

I tried it once, a Fiskar's hatchet.  As a hatchet it works, but as a hunting tool where I am I felt I got farther with my collapsible Fiskars saw and a good 4" blade.  Weighed less too...

[Westy]

I'll be carrying my new Bark River Scagel Camp Ax on my trips to the timber from now on.

Mine is the top one - Desert Ironwood scales.
My brothers is on the bottom - Bacote scales.

 

Great for building shelter, blinds, clearing shooting lanes,  handling camp chores or hunting tasks.   :D

[JAG]

Build my own, out of farrier's rasp.  Do it right, and they'll last forever!
JAG/Johnny

[Craig Schoneberg]

Deathmaster,
This is how I carry mine when needed.  I made the sheaths with a holster clip, to clip to belt or pack.

 

[Ron LaClair]

Here's a couple of mine, a spike hawk and a hammer pole. Serious war hawks.

   

[TheFatboy]

Awesome tomahawks ya got there Ron  

[robtattoo]

Here's my two.....

 

The top hawk was one I forged up a couple or three years ago. Nice & handy around the camp, but I don't carryit while I'm hunting. I could never get used to the handle constantly slapping aganst my leg/back/butt.
The smaller of the two I forged from a small (8oz?) ball pein hammer & hafted with a lump of osage. It's by far & away the sharpest piece of steel I've ever made! I've not sharpened it in 2 years & it sees a lot of use as a kindling splitter/rabbit de-foot & header/pelvis splitter & whittling axe & it still pops hair!
I think the forging & sharpening Gods were smiling on me when I made that one!

[Scott S.]

I carry a cheap hawk.  I use it more than I thought I would--even for things like using it as a hook to help me up a steep hill.  It does not have a sheath.  I will try to make a simple one if I can scrounge up some leather.  Track of the Wolf website sells a couple different sheaths at very reasonable prices.  Right now, I am using a 4" length of garden hose split lengthwise and held on by a thick rubber band as a blade guard. It works, but it's not too traditional.

[lucznik]

Originally posted by Two Tracks:
I thought santa was gonna give me a new shrew hawk but the elfs didn't make enough(or I was naughty...

I also was hoping for a Shrew Hawk from Santa. I'm blaming its absence under the tree on the lower work ethic of today's elves too.  

I'm just going to have to get one the "old fashioned way" and order it off Ron's website...

Until then I will keep using my little Gerber "backpacker.". It's a great little hatchet in its own right.

[pintail_drake2004]

I've carried a hawk for several years. Use to compete in throwing competitions, I've used it to take quite a bit of game as well. I've gotten pretty good at taking rabbits on the run between 10-12yards-now if I can just hit them with the bow  

[yononindo]

I usually have one along when camping, and always carry that saw with me.

The top one is an all-round axe by H. Roselli from Finland.
The bottom one is self-made.

 


Daniel