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Baton a Hawk?

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mdole

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Hey all, I recently acquired a CS Trail Hawk and while playing around with it today, I got it stuck in a piece of wood. Rather than pull it out, I decided to see about batoning it...and it worked out great! Only problem is, upon further inspection of the haft and eye I'm afraid I may have misshapen/widened the eye some. Now, I didn't inspect the fit too closely before, but I did sand down the haft to make it smoother and get it more snug. The fit looked tighter before the batonning, but I could just be paranoid. Can the eye be compromised by batonning? Are hawks never to be used in this way? Thanks all for the input and advice...:confused:
 
I've batoned the trail hawk quite a bit without altering the eye. You probably crushed the haft by levering while batoning.

Regards

Robin
 
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