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plus 1 on not needing much blade to skin deer, though certain other animals require a lot of cutting
Since I've been making hatchets (about 20) for about a year now I'll throw in an idea... if you intend to choke up on it and use it like a knife, it needs a sort of comfy handle all the way up. That means no thin sections, like on most hatchets cut from plate, and no overly wide sections, like on traditional wood handled hatchets. Learned this while making my first bow-drill fires, making all parts with my hatchet, and slicing my steak, and making a spoon, and a bowl....
Since I've been making hatchets (about 20) for about a year now I'll throw in an idea... if you intend to choke up on it and use it like a knife, it needs a sort of comfy handle all the way up. That means no thin sections, like on most hatchets cut from plate, and no overly wide sections, like on traditional wood handled hatchets. Learned this while making my first bow-drill fires, making all parts with my hatchet, and slicing my steak, and making a spoon, and a bowl....