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Mora Basic in green
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I used to have a cold steel trail hawk. I don't remember what happened to it.
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Those are great hawks - fun tools to have for sure.
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I never found it to be that useful. The edge was too short. The cold steel magnum kukri was much more useful for me.
That is because tomahawks were Primarily weapons, but delimbing twigs and chopping saplings were within the parameters of use also
Seriously? What happened to all the others?Mora Basic in green
I had one of those Mora's given to me in red. Very handy knife to have. I like that green also. I had some of that green reflective tape on some of my tools at work, especially my flashlight that always seemed to hide from me on the workbench.
Hm, get yourself a mora robust in carbon and you'll be hard pressed making an argument for another knife, if you only wanted one that is. Mora's heat treatment is phenomenal, so much so, that other companies send in their blades for treatment .Mora Basic in green
My 21 dollar mora companion chewed up wood better than all my $250+ fixed's
Many a mountain man got by very well with a Green River skinner and a hawk. If they could survive the Rocky Mountain winters with that duo and a single shot muzzle loading Hawkin, do we really need much more? My wife has got by with a Mora and a SAK classic for most of our 50 plus year marriage, going canoe camping, backpacking, motorcycle camping, and traveling. The mora makes a great campfire kitchen and whatever knife.
And they (mountain men) were gone for months, and didn't return with a broken knife, or at all, if they ran into the Lords of the Plains.
Your swiss army knife lasted this long because you never felt a need to harvest a redwood tree or two. Right tool for the job.
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I watched my dad get by with a Case Peanut and a small machete for most of his life. The little pocket knife did 98% of what he needed, and if it didn't, he had 10 inches of good carbon steel chopper to deal with it. Yes, right tool for the job. In my old age I finally have done the same. My keychain SAK does most of it, and the 12 inch Ontario machete in in the car trunk does the heavy stuff. A Mora and a hawk would work very well.
I lost 30 pts of IQ and bought 16 moras, (at the time) all stainless, they outperformed my more expensive models in "super steels" also my
Karesuando couldn't gouge the wood Like my mora did. I sold off all of the moras eventually but I hold the company in high regard. So! ..
Mora companion heavy duty and mora robust both in carbon and you're essentially set
