Bountyhunter,

I defer to your knowledge of such things; I'm not a bowhunter, never dug an arrow out of a tree, just passing on what I've read. Also, since I'm not a machinist (or one of our Farm-trained brethren from Langley) I have only the vaguest notion of what it is you're describing. I seem to remember something that looked like a section of an SKS folding bayonet... not sure how that would work.

In any case, though, I sort of suppose that a small hatchet would be a lot handier around camp, and take over more of the roles of a large knife- but it's just supposition.