Ray Mears Bushcraft – Choosing and Using an Axe

This is a short, free excerpt from Ray Mears’ website. This is a small example of the bonus features which come along with purchasing the Ray Mears Bushcraft Survival Series 2 DVD. The DVD can be purchased from Ray Mear’s website, , along with many other top-notch instructional videos.

Apologies for the bad quality! It can be found in a much higher quality version on Ray Mears’ website.

Here, Ray shows three axes, all made by Gränsfors Bruks of Sweden. Smallest to largest, he shows the Wildlife Hatchet, the Small Forest Axe, then my personal choice, the Scandinavian Forest Axe. He then shows some techniques on how to use an Axe.

I highly recommend all of Ray’s DVD’s. They all include Ray’s thorough wilderness wisdom for numerous types of environments across the world. Many of the videos also include short stories / reenactments of people in real survival scenarios, where Ray points out what they did right, what they did wrong, and what they could have done. Great stuff.