The Cold Steel Trail Boss is compact enough to carry all day in your hand or strapped to your pack yet tough enough for chores that would make a hatchet or tomahawk scream for mercy. Featuring a European style head with a 4 blade and a 4.50 cutting edge and 6 head length it takes a big bite with every swing. Plus it features a very sturdy durable straightgrained American Hickory handle. In our extensive fieldtests in the outback of Australia the Trail Boss was used to chop kindling clear roads and trails to build blinds and even to chop down a fair sized tree.