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Posted: 5/10/2006 12:09:03 PM EDT
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I got my new Heavy Heart the other day and was planning on keeping it a safe queen. Yeah, right. I was chopping down trees and throwing it before I got it home! The cardboard shipping sheath.  It's first bite.  Made short work of this sapling. You can see the micarta getting sweaty.  After a little more chopping the handle is completly sweat soaked, but the textured micarta still provided excellent grip. It was 90* and 70% humidity down in a heavily wooded flood plain so the handle wasn't the only thing sweat soaked!  Moving on from the smaller sapling I tackled a 4" tree next. Not a problem.    A Busse Combat blade and a Brooks B17 saddle, two icons unsurpassed in form and function. You can see bark on the tip from where I was throwing it at a tree, but my hands were so slippery from sweat I couldn't get a good enough grip to stick it successfully. You can see the sweat on the nose of the saddle that dripped off my arm in the short time it took to balance the knife for the photo.  I've been riding my Spicer fixed gear (can't shift or coast) bike to work so getting into the woods on the way home is no problem. I think they were drunk when they welded on my seat stays though... My POF upper made it's first trip home in that same Carradice saddle bag.  |
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It had the same edge it did fresh out of the package. Yesterday I put it through it's paces a bit more. First I stabbed it into an ammo box 10 times, which only scuffed the coating and removed it at the very tip.  (Of course, for sheer ease of penetration nothing beats a spike hawk!)  Then it was over to the the throwing stop where the first hit punched clear through slightly rotted section.  The other side of the same throw.  My next couple of throws flipped over but still stuck well upside down.   My last throw was a bit under roatated, but I still wouldn't want to be on the receiving end. 
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