Presumed Lost:

You are right about overall usefulness about a small axe or hatchet in a general outdoor environment.

I on the other hand would feel awfully silly digging out an arrow with an axe, and when you consider design aspects, an axe would be a real pain for the purpose of arrow removal (after all, it's bad enough I missed the target.).

The design example vis-a-vie the triangular bayonet is correct except that the deburring tool usually has a wooden handle and the most popular blade size is about 4".

If I have to chose between spending $12.00 versus $77.00 and the primary purpose is to retreive arrowheads because of my poor aim, I would opt for the $12.00 expenditure.

It has been a long time since I have had to dig an arrow out of a tree, and it was back in 1972 that I got out of the machinists trade because the pay was going downhill.

Bountyhunter