This Gerber Tomahawk is the best survival & (or) Tactical Tomahawk I have ever owned. The design is outstanding, The tang is thick and the G20 handle scales are wonderful. I personally was looking for something that would give me a good weapon for self defense in any situation, but especially for survival purposes. The other side of it was finding the best hatchet or axe to use for multiple tasks. with this tool you can brake in or out of some place, you could assemble and dissemble an entire camp site with this tool, dig holes easily (I have done this a few times now). A big deal for me was finding a tomahawk I could easily use two hands on as well as use single handedly at my differing availability, Gerber has provided that product. I also have the small Bear Grylls hatchet from Gerber, coupled with this which fits and stays in my survival/camping bag, theres nothing I can't get done. Big jobs and small, they both do incredible work and make my most my tasks short lived obstacle's in comparison with to many other products.When they designed this hawk it was designed with breaching in mind so it was built to stand up to abuse, right off the bat this is the first and one of the most important details. It is a FULL TANG tomahawk, (so don't pay any mind to the review commenting on the loose axe head, apparently a rip off or totally different product), and it has a wonderful weight balance, although it has a good size to it you are able to comfortably choke up on the head for fine wood work. The butt flairs out a bit, slowly, as you move from the axe and hammer head down to the nail puller on the end of the crow bar. Lets say this little jammie packs the punch of a regular wood axe in the package of beautifully crafted tomahawk that makes you makes you feel safer just having. One that includes Gerber's full lifetime warranty, which they have a phenomenal track record with. I am a loyal Gerber customer. I have many, many products and to this day, at age 22, I can't say any one has ever let me down. But to be fair it took me close to two months of watching reviews, looking over pictures and reviews of this product, the Boker "Tomahook", and CRKT's T-hawk, not in that particular order. But this girl came out on top. The Gerber Downrange Tomahawk, She's a BEAST. I also own or have owned the SOG Fasthawk both smaller and larger sizes, Bear Grylls Gerber Hatchet, Easting hatchet, coleman camp hatchet, Fiskars/Gerber wood axe full size, and the Schrade survival tomahawk (not the one with fire starter but a crow bar similar to the reviewed tomahawk). The only one's that are good at all are the Gerber's, all three are perfect for their intended purpose, the Schrade tomahawk is a great substitute if the gerber downrange is too expensive in all honesty, SOG's are good for throwing but not at all a survival option in my opinion.