Breaking makeshift allows for a quick grab

[MScull]

When you hit a player with a makeshift weapon and it breaks, you can almost instantly activate the grab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXlstl6ucm0

[Gurt]

You can do a lot of actions almost directly after any melee weapon breaks - this is by design as of now. You can only do this "once" for each broken melee weapon anyway.

This is fixed for the release version of the game as it has come up some new information about possibly negative consequences if left as it is.