>>1192278Dude, work smarter not harder.Deadfall, switch-splint, etc are just as valid for short term and small numbers. If planning longer terms or larger numbers, then bring a bigger axe. Right tools for the situation. Is this some sort of competition?
>>1192304>though the Africans where liable to throw vaguely axe-shaped hunks of metal at each other very effectively up until about the end of the 19th centuryCan you really call a hunga-munga/ Mambele/kpinga an axe?
>>1192426Overly romanticized to hell and back. No one will doubt their contribution, but like the "American Rifle Man" in general, we as a culture, built up that mythology up to a bizarre degree.