I personally think i'd like one on the lighter side, but would heavier have more advantages?I can't decide between the frontier, rifleman, or trail hawk.
I'm pretty torn between about half of them. Some of the British frontier units ditched their bayonets and started carrying the small tomahawks in their bayonet hangers during the F&I War.Ĭan anyone give some suggestions/reviews on wich cold steel hawk to get? The individual axe was what we call a "Squaw Hawk", or if being politically correct, a "mouse hawk". After use in a couple of movies they have become the historic standard. The size axe you are using was issued as a squad axe to the British army. It is amazing what the movies have done to us. In the TN state museum most of the origional artifacts used by the long-hunters and settlers, saved and handed down, were the polled type and they were rather small.
The French were named after the belt axe they developed and carried. Not that particular brand but the same style.Īround the time that your Longhunters were arriving in the middle ground to hunt the axe was going through its first transition in almost 5000 years, turning from the "tomahawk" style, which was really a style called the "fransisca", into the polled axe of today. I also use a double bit Nesmuck style hatchet on occasion. They also have a straight taper wedge rather than the round eye going into a flat sided blade with sudden cutting edge. They are light, have a good flat poll for use as a hammer, and keep a wicked edge. My preferance on the trail is one of these.
I'll bet Crash would know about the temper. Sometimes going over 160 will draw temper and soften the metal. Boiling water does not get any hotter than 212 so the whole pot would be the same temp. Pruned one of the trees by the house.Ģ12 would be the temperature of the whole pot, rocks and all. The tutorial did specify you should not let the head touch any part of the pot by placing it on some rocks, maybe this allows the head to stay cooler? It still seems to hold a good edge, I tested it out today. I don't think 200 is hot enough to disturb the heat treat (don't know for sure though), too late now time will tell I guess.
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