Your take on the use of a Tomahawk

[SWOHTR]

I clicked on this thread imagining it was going to be a discussion on the morality of shooting a bunch of TLAMs at something. Somewhat disappointed it wasn’t.

Hah. The morality of ordering a TLAM strike on a bachelor herd of elk…there ya go.

 

[Arcticmanak]

Gonna resurrect this one. I have found a small trappers companion hawk pretty handy in the woods. Pretty compact and lightweight and enough to clear brush, split kinding, make tent stakes and pound them. I've also taken a liking to a mini parang which is a smaller and shorter than most machetes, and with a heavier blade it does a pretty good job on brush clearing, building ground blinds, and splitting smaller pieces for kindling. I usually don't carry both in the field, just one or the other depending on the application.
Round it out with a folding saw and it's all good.

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[EastHumboldt]

If you kill an enemy with one, then you are by tradition obliged to scalp him, eat his liver, and wear his ears as a necklace.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

If you kill an enemy with one, then you are by tradition obliged to scalp him, eat his liver, and wear his ears as a necklace.

Does the stand for the second time also. I didn't like the liver.

 

[MallardSX2]

What is bushcrafting? Like arts and crafts but in the woods?

Beats me. It’s got to be similar to “rucking”.

I grew up in the woods and secretly hold a self provided title as one of the most educated rednecks that ever lived. However,
I read some of these little silly made up titles/outdoor “themes” and realize that while I’m not in their click, I was doing that shit while most of them were wiping the milk off of their lips….

 

[Mike 338]

If you like playing dress-up, and many people do, then by all means, scratch that itch.

 

[Arcticmanak]

Easy now. Someone's buckskin tassels might get in a knot.

 

[Hnthrdr]

I put it in the same camp as the machete. Heavy, not very practical, and makes me question the sanity of a person I see carrying one.

But what if they are in full buckskins or lion cloth depending on the weather of course, and carrying a hawken 50 cal or stick bow depending on season? Would be weird if they didn’t have a tomahawk right?

 

[EastHumboldt]

Does the stand for the second time also. I didn't like the liver.

Many people don’t like liver. Give the heart a try. As in “Maguay will eat your heart!” Remember “Last of the Mohicans”?