You are correct, they haven't been discontinued. I was a little confused because I ordered and received the single wing version a few weeks ago, and sent it back because the handle came loose after the first strike. I also noticed at that time that the head was slightly misshapen. I requested a replacement rather than a refund. They responded via e-mail to my wife; "We are providing a full refund because we are investigating the integrity of this particular axe design and are not comfortable sending what could be a flawed model/batch." I actually hadn't read that e-mail myself until just now. So the distributor is just investigating the current batch, the model is still in production. Thanks Steve for getting that cleared up, I hate to spread wrong information.