Bob Dozier can not Bushcraft (Bob Dozier K-36 Bushcraft 2nd Generation)

[the possum]

I think if you wanna make up whatever word you want for spending time outdoors, great, just don't waste your money on tools you don't need.

Whoa, hold on there. Now I was reading along on this thread enjoying people's different points of view, until I came to this part. This is sacrilege! I probably have dozens of knives, hatchets, axes, etc., and despite having only two hands, I plan to buy plenty more!

 

[B34NS]

Whoa, hold on there. Now I was reading along on this thread enjoying people's different points of view, until I came to this part. This is sacrilege! I probably have dozens of knives, hatchets, axes, etc., and despite having only two hands, I plan to buy plenty more!

meant that in the most sincere way possible. Like Mitch used to say "I used to, I still do, I used to, too"

 

[Thomas Linton]

Sacrilege !

 

[Joezilla]

:applause: this has been an invigorating thread, thamks for keeping it civil and going

 

[SirJames]

Anyone that says it is not a bushcraft knife shows that he doesn't understand what bushcraft is. Bushcraft is the skills you use, not the gear. A pot from your kitchen, a tin can, a "Mors" pot, it all doesn't matter, the skill is in your cooking methods not what you boil water in. Those wool blankets were the very same wool blankets they had on their beds be it town or country. The knife that skins the rabbit around the farm will skin the rabbit 1,000 miles up Green River.

 

[baldtaco-II]

Anyone that says it is not a bushcraft knife shows that he doesn't understand what bushcraft is. Bushcraft is the skills you use, not the gear. A pot from your kitchen, a tin can, a "Mors" pot, it all doesn't matter, the skill is in your cooking methods not what you boil water in. Those wool blankets were the very same wool blankets they had on their beds be it town or country. The knife that skins the rabbit around the farm will skin the rabbit 1,000 miles up Green River.

Are you suggesting all knives are equal and only the user makes a difference?

If you are not is it true that we could rank order them at their usefulness at specific tasks? Further, if we can do that, say with an Mtech or Busse at one end and a Flexicut at the other for making a spoon, would it be reasonable to plot this Dozier somewhere along that line? If not why not?

 

[wildmanh]

As far as I'm concerned, skill goes a long ways. I've seen people fillet fish with a Huge Khukri or a hatchet, split wood with folding knifes and other crazy stuff like that. My Hollow ground Buck 110 and 105 both carve wood really well. Never had any complaints with them when it comes to food prep or wood work. Sure, I wouldn't split wood or chop with them, but for normal knife stuff like cutting food, opening packages, carving and the like, they work great!

Heck as a Teen, I would use hollow ground cheap kitchen knives to help me build brush shelters in the back yard. If the knife held a decent edge for a while, I'd use it. Hollow or flat ground or convex, didn't matter to me, if it cut and was comfy to use, I used it. The Old Hickory Butcher's knife that I used to have worked great as a small Machete, cut Box elder suckers nicely and those worked great for the frame work of my brush shelters.

I can carve a spatula, fork or spoon with a Ka-Bar, SOG Revolver Hunter or my Mora 711. It's all good to me.