this whole idea that to be a bushcrafter and do "Bushcraft" where one only carries a little 3" knife and makes spoons and arrowheads and wearing animal furs for clothes, bla bla bla bla bla is a big fat pile of bunk.

Bushcraft is many things. It can be basic outdoors skills to some, extremism to others.

I define bushcraft as: what can i make with my AXE or my KNIFE in order to SHELTER me, FEED me, and keep me WARM, or what activity in the woods can i do for fun

Some will have you believe that that in order to "bushcraft" you need to run naked thru the woods, hooting with the owls, find a obsidian and knapp it to make your knife, then pulp cedar bark and weave thread to bind the obsidian to a stick. Thats cool and all but come on......

anything that one does in the woods is bushcraft. It is NOT a Religion or Cult or out of body experience.If you go into the woods and make a shelter thats BUSHCRAFT. If you go into the woods and build a fire, thats BUSHCRAFT. If you run naked thru the woods hooting with the owls and knapping flint, that too is BUSHCRAFT.

and this whle religion of only carrying a wee 3 or 4" blade in the woods, thats fine.....you got bushcraft hipster status. Me on the other hand, i'll keep on carrying my axe and big motherrukka choppa blade. Letme know how your log chopping is going, i'll be enjoying a fire in my log shelter long before you get thru that log with your BUSHCRAFT APPROVED 3 - 4" blade.......AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAH


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