. You can swing it two handed like a proper axe and you can carve with it like a hatchet but it doesn't really do either very well.
I agree there Robin. I really think the SFA is one of the poorer bushcraft offerings. Its an axe disigned for cutting softwood after all. It struggles with hardwoods is abysmal at splitting, is too unwieldy to carve well and too short for a proper swing, needing more of a push pull technique. Probably the most dangerous out there. But, they are made well and ray endorses them so i hardly think anything we say will make a difference.
I have been looking at the snow and neally hudson bay pattern which looks promising, more of an all round head shape/thickness and a little longer than the SFA. I reckon this will put the SFA in the shade as far as a good all rounder goes. Would struggle with carving though, but would be much better at hardwoods and splitting
Do you have experience/knowledge of the S&N axe at all Robin?
http://www.snowandnealley.com/products/axes/hbca24.htm
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