I sometimes carry a cheap one (model is 'Frontier Hawk'; maker - who knows) that I picked up at Smokey Mountain Knifeworks in TN a few years back.  I'd carry it more often if I had a scabbard for the thing - don't like that sharp edge lurking out there just waiting to eat a bow string.

I used it earlier this year as a drag handle for a doe I killed...

I carry a tomohawk, not sure of the make but it does not weigh a whole lot and it has a weeping heart in it!!

I have the little gerbers. Razor sharp. What a great tool. Never go hunting with out it. Nothing splits an elk any better. or makes a shelter, or a blind. Its just a great tool. Light and handy. Be a great weapon too but hope I never have to use it.

I've used my Shrew Hawk for years and wouldn't think of going to the woods without it.

http://www.shrewbows.com/shrewhawk/index.htm
http://shrewbows.com/Frontiersman/index.html

 

Tenbrook and Gerardo,

I do not have a website.  If you want to see some of my work check out the recent tomohawk posting on the Knifemakers forum.  If you have any questions feel free to pm me.

Ragnarok,

For some reason the pm function isn't working for me. I am going to be in the Portland/Vancouver area later this month, is it possible to see some of your work?

I have a small marbles hatchet, I made a sling sheath to carry it.

Nah, knife on the belt & small folding saw in the pack serve me fine.  I do prefer top end fixed blades, usually I carry a Randall Model 5 or Hattori Medium Fighting Bowie (Hattori's slightly larger clone of the Randall)..

I often carry a hatchet- I couldnt tell you who made it I have never liked the light wieght of a 'hawk for seroius chopping- for light chopping and trimming I just use my knife

I have a small hatchet head that I got from my grandfather. He used it working the Produce Markets of Sydney for years, opening and closing crates mostly. I need to find a good piece of wood for a handle and make a sheath for it. Is going into my "new" hunting kit for next year.

Used a Shrew hawk this past season. I just put it in my pack along with other needed gear. Used it for clearing grease wood durning the antelope season. Late elk season around camp very handy and will carry it from now on instead of clippers for ground blinds and a bone saw.

I carry my Shrew hawk on almost every hunt!  Awesome tool!

I carry one in the truck does that count.

I use a Cold Steel hammer poll hawk in a leather sheath. Light & easy to use. Been tempered so it holds a really good edge. Hammer is nice for driving stakes & things around camp.

I carry a small hawk during our flintlock season here in PA.  I wear it in the small of my back.  It goes with the bag, horn, custom flintlock, etc.

Jethro1

I sent you a pm.   We can definately meet up.  If you have some time we should head out to the woods and do some stump shooting.

Clay Walker
Ragnarok Forge

QuoteOriginally posted by Butch Speer:
I use a Cold Steel hammer poll hawk in a leather sheath. Light & easy to use. Been tempered so it holds a really good edge. Hammer is nice for driving stakes & things around camp.

If that's the Trail Hawk, i just got one a few weeks ago.  Got it shaving sharp pretty quick and then went and chopped up a load of 10 year seasoned yew to test it out.  Still took hair off my arm after that - well impressed!

My friend and i even used it as a splitting wedge by beating down on the hammer pole with a really big sledge hammer.  We really beat the hell out of it to get it through some really knotty yew and it still took hair off.

Only bad thing is that they don't do a belt sheath, or any kind of sheath, for it.

I have a Kershaw htachet my wife and daughter gave me for father's day. It works great.

I started carrying mine after encountering some pretty mean dogs while scouting.

I carry a hawk,I use it to cut through the pelvic bone of deer