I have a Hawk and I carry it all the time on my place in da UP. Always cutting branches, clearing paths. I carry it skwerl hunting because, although my nutters knock a skwerl for a loop, it doesn't always kill them forever. Lay the skwerl against a handy tree, whack to the neck, dead skwerl....next......
I touch up the blade on mine and keep it very sharp. Cutting small twigs and branches is an easy chore with very little effort because it slices, not hacks.
I'm certain I can clean a deer with it, but just use my knife for that, however at the end, the spine gets chopped in a couple places to allow me to better pack it into the trash for disposal.
I wonder Ron, if your blacksmith could make me a sort of customized bowl adze of fairly similar size and weight ?
ChuckC