D&D 5E - No love for the hand axe?

That being said, one thing I've noticed is that no one ever uses a hand axe except maybe as a back up ranged weapon for fighters. As someone who has done bushcraft and a lot of outdoors activities, the one tool I have over anything else is a forest axe (about the size of a large hand axe). It's the tool of choice over even a knife if I had to choose only one. But when we think of barbarians or rangers (two classes that would represent the woodsman/mountainman), it's either a battle axe (which is pretty crappy for day to day bushcraft) or long sword as primary weapons. The hand axe often gets left behind despite it clearly being the superior item in real life representation.

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