all purpose hawk

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i wonder what cold steel hawk would be best for splitting kindling and maybe a little throwing ?
 
You could buy better than CS. Depending on how much you wanna spend, Bear Mountain is great and H&B Forge is pretty good. Trouble with CS is that unless you put a ton of work into the fit the heads will frequently come loose under normal chopping/throwing. I own a CS frontier and norse hawk, I prefer the frontier one but it's only useful since I bought it form Ragweed Forge where he thinned the edge and sharpened it and I pounded the head on added a bit of gorilla glue and wrapped rawhide underneath it. If you wanna spend a little more you can't go wrong with bear mountain. If you are definitly going CS tho maybe one of the hammer poll hawks would be better for chopping since the frontier/norse are pretty light.
 
i own a frontier and a trail hawk form cold steel great value for the lil amount of cash but you will have a small amount of tinkering to do .
i have heard that the riflemans hawk is the heavyest most sutable for chopping
 
The best hawk for self defense and / or chopping kindling will have a wedge to make a tight fit to withstand impact.
Throwing is a different ball game! If you throw your wedged hawk sooner or later you will break the handle. An un-wedged handle will not break if the throw hits the handle on the target. Un-wedged for throwing is the answer.
Having a hawk that will "do it all" is understanding that you must make a compromise between the two, which means no wedge. Or, you can get two hawks. One for throwing and one for s/d and chopping.
The CS rifleman's hawk would be VG as a SD/ chopper/ nail pounder. Too heavy for throwing.
The CS trail hawk is the lightest and would be good for nailing/ chopping/ throwing.
The Frontier hawk would be best all around. What I like about the CS hawks is the allen screw., but remember you need to tote an allen wrench. Needing an allen wrench is another trade-off .IMO the CS hawks , because of the allen screw, are the most versitile hawks made. YMMV
Oh BTW I just did a mod on my frontier hawk. Pics to follow...
 
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