Axle Shaft Removal Advice

I'm fighting this now. The drivers side came out with a few hits of a rubber mallet. The passenger side is rusty down in the bearing race. That thing is in there. I'm almost disgusted with the "never had one stuck before". On 7 1/4 rears, that end plate has no seal at all. So it's inevitable that you will get rust down in the end of the tube/ bearing area. Unreal. I guess I'm about to sawzall the left tube off and throw this 7 1/4 into the lake.