Skachet Survival Tool

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onehikes

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I am not sure i would want this as my primary hatchet/axe for outdoor knife, but as a survival tool it offers a lot of options.

In 1962 Herbert F. Frisbie invented all purpose survival tool that could be used as a hunting knife, hatchet & hammer. Yet easily carried on your belt. All that was need was a short one inch stick that could easily be found almost anywhere.

While it didn’t excel at any particular task it did perform well enough to become quite popular. The Skachet rides in a low belt sheath and can easily be removed. From there it can be held like an Ulu and used as is for skinning, scraping and cutting tasks. The claim was even made that it would “actually outperform an ordinary hunting knife.”

From there, it can quickly convert into a hatchet/ hammer by cutting a one inch diameter stick. Then the tool is used to slightly taper the end. Finally, the stick was threaded into the tool tightly. The coarse threading holds everything solidly in place. With no need to pin or wedge the handle. Unlike other similar survival tools.

The actual hatchet profile is a decent wedge shape. It’s long but still well balanced and meant to be used on a seventeen inch handle.

The brochure is from Charter Arms which reintroduced the Skachet in the 80's. Charter Arms, a USA company offered a AK 47 to consumers.
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The Skatchet is an interesting idea, and its unusual nature have led to continued interest in them over time, but I feel as though it could have been further optimized for improved overall performance to make it more than what is effectively a novelty.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
The Skatchet is an interesting idea, and its unusual nature have led to continued interest in them over time, but I feel as though it could have been further optimized for improved overall performance to make it more than what is effectively a novelty.
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I feel the same way, but I also think that in general there's little point in planning to have this makeshift tool instead of being well prepared with proper options.

It's a tool that can do many things in a pinch, but you'll be in a serious potentially dire pinch when it's needed.
 
A company called Mtn Bonded is producing these again at $80 a pop. The Skachet is pretty well respected in the bushcrafting community. One advantage is the threaded eye which makes it fairly easy to fashion a field handle from a tree branch.
 
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Roamad said:
A company called Mtn Bonded is producing these again at $80 a pop. The Skachet is pretty well respected in the bushcrafting community. One advantage is the threaded eye which makes it fairly easy to fashion a field handle from a tree branch.
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The threaded eye is a neat feature but I can think of ways to do it better.
 
onehikes said:
The brochure is from Charter Arms which reintroduced the Skachet in the 80's. Charter Arms, a USA company offered a AK 47 to consumers.
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Very interesting that these are made by Charter Arms, which is otherwise known for its line of revolvers.

I am in my office right now, which is about a half hour from Shelton CT where they are based.
 
19-3ben said:
Very interesting that these are made by Charter Arms, which is otherwise known for its line of revolvers.

I am in my office right now, which is about a half hour from Shelton CT where they are based.
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They had the rights to make the Armalite designed AR-7 .22lr survival rifle around this time, so it makes sense that they'd branch out into other survival stuff like this thing.
They had the AR-7 explorer and a pistol version called the explorer 2, but they had kind of a poor reputation.

You'd think that with the reputation of their Bulldog revolvers they'd have the ability to pull off a simple straight blowback .22, but it probably had something to do with all tbe plastic which they didn't have much experience with.
 
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