» Zombie Hunter XL TEST
By Vince on December 23, 2011
I know, I’m late with this review and I apologize. Sometimes life does get in the way!
But today I took out the Crazy Frazee Forge Zombie Hunter XL and did some live cutting and chopping with it for both your pleasure and mine!
The video you see below was quite a bit of fun to film, if only I’d charged the battery! I was only able to film the water jug cut but that one is very nice!
As you can see I set up a 1 gallon milk jug full to the top with water. I then placed it on top of my canoe. Probably not the best place to perform with a live blade but it’s all I had. I have confidence in my own skill and control but beginners might want to try on a surface that you won’t be afraid to shred.
I performed a number 3 forehand horizontal cut on the jug, and on impact, I felt very little. It’s almost as if the jug were not there, so easily did the blade slice thru! The jug barely moved through the whole cut and stayed upright. Impressive!
Next I decided to “trim” a tropical hard wood fruit tree I have in my back yard. I have no idea what kind of tree this is. I have had three separate Cuban “guajiro’s” tell me it is definitely a Cuban fruit tree, but not one of them remembers the name!
In any case, this tree’s limbs are VERY tough. A machete takes way too long so, I usually have to take a chain saw to them no matter how thin they look.
I picked limb that would be roughly as thick as human femur. Much stronger than an ulna or radius bone of the fore arm and thicker too.
Due to the sway of the limb and the toughness the first slash went not quite all the way through…say 85%. You can see from the pic below.
So it took 1 and quarter slashes to get thru the limb. If this had been a human limb it would have been more than incapacitated, complete loss of the use of this limb. Blood loss would be severe.
The next on my list was to see how it would do on a 2×4. From a work bench project I had some 2×4 pieces left over that I saved just for this!
I stood an 8 inch tall 2×4 on top of another longer 2×4 as a base and this on top of a stone bench in the back yard.
In this case I used a number 7 overhand vertical cut or more commonly known as an axe cut.
Once again, resistance was minimal and the blade sailed thru the 2×4 and lodged in the bottom, base 2×4, almost before I knew it! In fact, it went over a ¼ inch into the base 2×4! I’m very glad I didn’t put a lot of strength into this cut as it might have actually cut into the stone bench!
As you can see from the pics above. Throughout this testing the blade edge showed no sign of rolling or chipping at all! Not an uncommon thing to have happen even in machete’s!
Differential heat treating shows it’s best here! The black Gunkote finish just needed to be wiped off and it looks as good as new.
All in all I was even more impressed that I was in my initial posting. It’s a well made, tough and solid blade. Really more of a short sword than a knife, but it truly lives up to a being an incredible chopper!
