[daveguy]

Splitting mauls have a wider angle to help separate wood pieces and a beefier back to use with/as a sledgehammer or splitting wedge. What's rendered is definitely more like an axe than a splitting maul.

[devmor]

What you're describing is exactly what I see in the image.

[daveguy]

Fair enough. Hard to tell one way or another with all the "action" marks.