Thread: Unna àksu.

Skinning a deer with an axe only is no problem with a Gransfors Bruks small axe or Huskvarna small axe...I did it last year as a test. Once you get the hang of it, you can see why it's a preferred tool for a lot of Alaskan trappers and bushcrafters. Very nice axe! I've never considered one in stainless, heck...didn't know a quality one was made in stainless!

Originally Posted by shooter74743

Skinning a deer with an axe only is no problem with a Gransfors Bruks small axe or Huskvarna small axe...I did it last year as a test. Once you get the hang of it, you can see why it's a preferred tool for a lot of Alaskan trappers and bushcrafters. Very nice axe! I've never considered one in stainless, heck...didn't know a quality one was made in stainless!

I usually skin my deer with a golf ball, a rope, and pick up.

Unlike that guy in the vid, I gut mine first.

Now that is interesting. You learn something everyday.

Bob

I think I need to try that!

Originally Posted by BobH

Stunning looking small axe. Have you used it or is it just for display?

Bob

Baptized it yesterday. NOT impressed. Started out good but went down hill rather quickly. Quartered out a fat doe. Chopped the forelegs, the spine and the rear legs.




Steel is hard. Straightened out the worst of it this morning on a BIG Norton stone. File wouldn't touch it. I'm thinking that the original grind was too much like a knife edge and had too much unsupported edge. Put a steeper bevel on it this go around. Didn't get quite all the dings out, but they'll come out next time I put it on the stone.


If it blows up again, I'm contacting the Swede's that made it and see what they have to say.

Wow. I've never seen anything like that.

Yea, that is not impressive at all. Hope the beefier edge works.

Bob

I just cut at the joints....

For what you want to do I would sharpen it more like a splitting maul than a hatchet.

Originally Posted by 32t

I just cut at the joints....

For what you want to do I would sharpen it more like a splitting maul than a hatchet.

I cut the legs at the joints. Only real bone it chopped was the spine and pelvis. Edge angle is a lot steeper now and it will shave arm hair. It'll get some more abuse next weekend.