Squirrel/road kill eating, BBC article

[richardhomer]

i'm not sure why he needed an axe to butcher a squirrel, a three inch knife and a pair of secateurs has been sufficent for me to butcher thousands of rabbits.

Bit of grandstanding on his part I think.

Plus I suspect the TV people wanted to add to it and make it look like he was a bit of a hard blood thirty red neck

 

[Adze]

i'm not sure why he needed an axe to butcher a squirrel.

Showmanship and playing to his audience.