Bag with 'hawk or axe?

I've said before that I just carry my hawk in my belt or sash and have never had a problem. With it stuck under the belt in the small of my back and held tightly against my body it can't rotate enough to injure my back. I carry it bare, too, have done so for 30+ years and never a nick. It seems an easy thing to remember that I can safely reach for it with my right hand, and that I need to be cautious if I decide to use my left. 

Maybe it's not as much of a threat as you boys imagine. 

Joe D. Huddleston's "Colonial Riflemen in the American Revolution," Shumway, York, PA 1960, p. 16.
Silas Deane was a Conecticut congressman, and was referring to the rifle
company of the Philadelphia Associators in 1775:
" ...They take a piece of Ticklenburgh, or tow cloth that is stout, and put
it in a tan-vat until it has the shade of a dry or fading leaf; then they make a kind of frock of it, reaching below the knee, open before, with a
large cape. They wrap it around them tight, on a march, and tie it with
their belt, in which hangs their tomahawk..."

William Blane's memoirs of "AN EXCURSION THROUGH THE
UNITED STATES AND CANANDA DURING THE YEARS 1822-23" 
"The early settlers of Kentucky all wore the "hunting-shirt," which is still
the common dress of the hunters and backwoodsmen. It is a kind of short
loose doublet, reaching about half-way down the thighs, with an upright
collar, and a small but full cape. It is kept together in front with two or
three buttons or hooks; and is as loose as an English farmer's smock-frock, but is fastened round the waist by a broad leather belt, in which hang the tomahawk and hunting knife. "

The Pennsylvania Gazette
October 6, 1763
WILLIAMSBURGH, September 16.
"…. on his discharging his piece, he was attacked by several Indians at once; the first that made up to him he knocked down with his gun, but the savages wresting it out of his hand, he knocked down another with a tomahawk, which he carried under his belt."

BTW, I've never seen an original reference to "bag axe", but that doesn't mean much.

Spence

A great question of which I, too, am curious. And yet, regardless of whether or not the names "bag ax" and "game ax" are period, there is the question of explaining the purpose, function - and, yes, carriage - of the sort of small (usually 12 inch haft or less, cutting edge in the neighborhood of 2 inches) axes of which many period examples survive. Their diminutive size makes them scarcely credible as weapons and even less so for heavy camp chores. They sure are handy for taking the legs off a squirrel, though




This is an original with solid provenance from the Skene foundry in Skenesboro (now Whitehall) NY, South of Lake Champlain, ca.1770.

Paranger, beautiful piece. I'm curious to hear how you feel the axe carries on your shooting bag. Is it awkward? Does it become a nuisance in thicker forest catching on things? Any issues with accessing accouterments within your bag?