I've seen M40's site for a while. I agree with his sentiment on chopping - at least when it comes to "high impact" type camping/survival or winter stuff getting firewood. Personally, I've used knives like the kukri, but when it comes down to it for chopping, give me a regular sized knife and then for equivalent weight a small 1.5 lb axe. the smaller knife is then better at doing knifely things, and the axe is far better at everything else. If you want a nice one go find a gransfors forest axe, or the little fiskars axe..

Now making a sheath for the axe and putting a little kit like his survival kit on it might be ok. but this is all stuff I always have in my daybag anyways, anywhere I go.

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