anybody use one

It seems many people admire or indulge in the fantasy - using an axe in actual combat.

Otherwise this big "tactical axe" craze wouldn't be taking place heck i'm selling my axes due to the tactical look of them. At shows people ask is this a tactical axe I kinda laugh inside and then say "If you want it to be, I just use it for chopping stuff".

When talkin about this topic with my buddies on the other side they always just start laughing at the thought of pulling out a blade for hand to hand combat. They always say the same thing thats why I carry a backup firearm. The only one I know who uses his axe alot over there is a firefighter.
 
I've never heard a credible story of one being used in a fight, in Iraq/Afghanistan or otherwise. I can tell you that they are issued to many of us in a breach kit. It's handy for some things, like chipping out firing ports in mud brick walls, smashing windows, opening ammo crates, etc... I would tend to doubt any stories about killing bad guys with them unless they were from a credible, verified source.
 
KnghtWalkr said:
It seems many people admire or indulge in the fantasy - using an axe in actual combat.

Otherwise this big "tactical axe" craze wouldn't be taking place heck i'm selling my axes due to the tactical look of them. At shows people ask is this a tactical axe I kinda laugh inside and then say "If you want it to be, I just use it for chopping stuff".

When talkin about this topic with my buddies on the other side they always just start laughing at the thought of pulling out a blade for hand to hand combat. They always say the same thing thats why I carry a backup firearm. The only one I know who uses his axe alot over there is a firefighter.
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chromechicken said:
I've never heard a credible story of one being used in a fight, in Iraq/Afghanistan or otherwise. I can tell you that they are issued to many of us in a breach kit. It's handy for some things, like chipping out firing ports in mud brick walls, smashing windows, opening ammo crates, etc... I would tend to doubt any stories about killing bad guys with them unless they were from a credible, verified source.
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yes for Military = tools
yes for SWAT = tools

For the fat home owner well its that one in a million chance....and before you say it will never happen the same could be said about armed home invasions a few years ago...now with that being said I would always go for a gun always...but if it is at hand and is all you have...like I said in some wildlife refuges you can not have legal firearms but you can carry a camp axe....and while I can not say for certian about tomahawks there have been stories of home owners scaring off would be thiefs with an AXE
 
I never said that it couldn't happen-I'm just saying that there are all sorts of "I have a buddy who...insert favorite hollywood act with knife or tomahawk... in Iraq/Afghanistan/whatever", and the vast majority are lies. These things are just extremely uncommon. I've used mine for chipping holes in mud brick, smashing glass, and punching holes in the bottom of a water can, but never heard of one being used to kill a bad guy. That's not to say that it can't or never will happen.
I think too many times people make up stories or scenarios to justify the possesion of certain things in their mind, as though it's not OK to have it just because you want it.
 
Its funny, I stopped 3 idiots from stealing a mans truck back in college, saw the owner knocked to the ground and grabbed my e-tool and ran towards them. They decided to run for it, that shovel must have looked pretty tough with me running at them full tilt. Of course it was an old e-tool, the new ones cant be used very well as a weapon with that damned triangular handle. Then I went on to serve 21 years in the military and never used a blade to kill anyone (guns worked just fine though). I still carry an e-tool in my truck since I figure its hard for the police to arrest me for having a shovel.
 
Just a note here, and perhaps a little off-topic, but a tomahawk is a hatchet is a belt axe.

"Tomahawk" is just a garbled native name for a warclub that was applied to the hatchets traded to them. Nowadays it is usually applied to small, single-bladed axes with a typical 17th-early 18th century profile, as well as to North American variations such as pipe tomahawks. Later models, such as the "kentucky" pattern, are usually refered to as "hatchets," probably necause they look more or less like what we expect a full-sized axe to look like now that the "Yankee" pattern is so ubiquitous. Back in the 18th century and into the 19th century, however, the term "hatchet" and "tomahawk" seem to have synonymous, and I am pretty sure I have read an 18th century reference to "pipe axes."

Point being, modern definitions of tomahawk , belt axe, and hatchet are somewhat arbitrary when viewed historically and are not consistently used by modern writers, as far as I can tell. Ergo, we would

http://www.lanouvelle-france.com/axetypes.htm
Note particularly the "trade axe" and the Biscayan axes - the trade axe is a fairly typical "round-poll tomahawk", the biscayan axes a heavier, earlier version of the same. The duty axes are the full-sized version...
 
Elnathan said:
Just a note here, and perhaps a little off-topic, but a tomahawk is a hatchet is a belt axe.

"Tomahawk" is just a garbled native name for a warclub that was applied to the hatchets traded to them. Nowadays it is usually applied to small, single-bladed axes with a typical 17th-early 18th century profile, as well as to North American variations such as pipe tomahawks. Later models, such as the "kentucky" pattern, are usually refered to as "hatchets," probably necause they look more or less like what we expect a full-sized axe to look like now that the "Yankee" pattern is so ubiquitous. Back in the 18th century and into the 19th century, however, the term "hatchet" and "tomahawk" seem to have synonymous, and I am pretty sure I have read an 18th century reference to "pipe axes."

Point being, modern definitions of tomahawk , belt axe, and hatchet are somewhat arbitrary when viewed historically and are not consistently used by modern writers, as far as I can tell. Ergo, we would

http://www.lanouvelle-france.com/axetypes.htm
Note particularly the "trade axe" and the Biscayan axes - the trade axe is a fairly typical "round-poll tomahawk", the biscayan axes a heavier, earlier version of the same. The duty axes are the full-sized version...
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[sarcasm]But you that may have been true a 200 years ago,
but now manufacturers/marketeers blah blah redefined blah blah
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:) stone iron or steel, its axe
 
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