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Nice Hawk, Joe. It looks like the Viet Nam model, but with a different handle.
Indeed it does. This is the ATC LaGana hawk. Since ATC can actually use Peter LaGana's name, I would expect it to be a better version. The head seems to have similar dimensions, but the handle isn't tapered like the CS copy. It is an oval, textured nylon handle. Everyone I have talked to has told me that it solves the basic problem of the weak haft attachment of the CS VH. It actually uses a bolt instead of a wedge to expand the haft into the head. I can try to get a pic of it later. ATC says this hawk is made of 1070 while CS says theirs is made of 1055.

Actually, I really am lost as to exactly what the relationship between ATC and CS really is. I think CS might own ATC, but ATC only supplies CS with certain hawks. IOW, I think CS owns ATC, who produces the hawks for both of them, but they sell different lines. Oddly enough, ATC won't even link to CS off their link page.

Last edited by StabbyJoe; 02/24/09 03:25 AM.

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