Bushcraft community hate towards non-bushcraft knives? What's up with this bushcraft craze? šŸ˜‚

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shane45-1911 said:
Nope, NOPE........it doesn't have "tactical" in the name. I need the name. I gots to have the name!!! :p
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Well...I mean, since this entire thread has been centered around the premise of using made-up words to describe stuff*, you could technically just call it a Tactical Bushcraft knife yourself, and when called on it, BOOM! Xenophobia!! LMAOOOOO


* Any criticism of which, is apparently hate speech.
 
91bravo said:
To me, bushcrafting is going out into the woods to play. Fire, food, water, knife usage, shelter building, land navigation, etc. Bushcrafting skills are the same skills you can learn in a survival class, or vice versa.
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Stop bringing reason and common sense into the equation. Remember where you are.

Sheesh.

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91bravo said:
To me, bushcrafting is going out into the woods to play. Fire, food, water, knife usage, shelter building, land navigation, etc. Bushcrafting skills are the same skills you can learn in a survival class, or vice versa.
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Wrong!! Does "survival class" teach you that one super secret squirrel Buschcraftjer technique where you hold a stick under your arm and hold your $450 handmade Bushcraftjer knife rigidly against the stick in your other hand while you flex your sternum, so you're saving calories while shaving a stick?

DOES IT?

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I figure at this point, we might as well have fun with it, amirite?
 
Quiet said:
Heh, too easy.

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NEEEXT!!
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This is the best part: "Please note: the protective coating on the spark the steel needs to be scraped away before you can light."
 
Quiet said:
Wrong!! Does "survival class" teach you that one super secret squirrel Buschcraftjer technique where you hold a stick under your arm and hold your $450 handmade Bushcraftjer knife rigidly against the stick in your other hand while you flex your sternum, so you're saving calories while shaving a stick?

DOES IT?

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I figure at this point, we might as well have fun with it, amirite?
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Yep! I can build fire, multiple ways, in the rain. I can filter water using natural filters. I can hunt, trap, gather and fish, navigate by map/compass and use a knife in multiple ways. But I'm no bushcrafter....
 

If it is a made up word, it was made up a long time ago. Source: wikipedia​

Etymology​

The Oxford English Dictionary definition of bushcraft is "skill in matters pertaining to life in the bush".

The word has been used in its current sense in Australia and South Africa at least as far back as the 1800s. Bush in this sense is probably a direct adoption of the Dutch 'bosch', (now 'bos') originally used in Dutch colonies for woodland and country covered with natural wood, but extended to usage in British colonies, applied to the uncleared or un-farmed districts, still in a state of nature. Later this was used by extension for the country as opposed to the town. In Southern Africa, they get Bushman from the Dutch 'boschjesman' applied by the Dutch colonists to the natives living in the bush. In North America, where there was also considerable colonisation by the Dutch, they have the word 'bushwacker' which is close to the Dutch 'bosch-wachter' (now 'boswachter') meaning 'forest-keeper' or 'forest ranger'.

Historically, the term has been spotted in the following books (amongst others):
  • Preliminary titles for The Art of Travel by Francis Galton, published in 1854, included Bushcraft or Science of Travel and Bushcraft or the Shifts and Science of Travel in Other Countries[3]
  • The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc; published in 1888.
  • My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin; published in 1901.
  • Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899ā€“1900) by A. G. Hales; published in 1901.
  • The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Ernest Favenc; published in 1908.
  • We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn; published in 1908.
  • The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott; published in 1914.
 
dogstar said:

If it is a made up word, it was made up a long time ago. Source: wikipedia​

Etymology​

The Oxford English Dictionary definition of bushcraft is "skill in matters pertaining to life in the bush".

The word has been used in its current sense in Australia and South Africa at least as far back as the 1800s. Bush in this sense is probably a direct adoption of the Dutch 'bosch', (now 'bos') originally used in Dutch colonies for woodland and country covered with natural wood, but extended to usage in British colonies, applied to the uncleared or un-farmed districts, still in a state of nature. Later this was used by extension for the country as opposed to the town. In Southern Africa, they get Bushman from the Dutch 'boschjesman' applied by the Dutch colonists to the natives living in the bush. In North America, where there was also considerable colonisation by the Dutch, they have the word 'bushwacker' which is close to the Dutch 'bosch-wachter' (now 'boswachter') meaning 'forest-keeper' or 'forest ranger'.

Historically, the term has been spotted in the following books (amongst others):
  • Preliminary titles for The Art of Travel by Francis Galton, published in 1854, included Bushcraft or Science of Travel and Bushcraft or the Shifts and Science of Travel in Other Countries[3]
  • The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc; published in 1888.
  • My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin; published in 1901.
  • Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899ā€“1900) by A. G. Hales; published in 1901.
  • The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Ernest Favenc; published in 1908.
  • We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn; published in 1908.
  • The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Ernest Scott; published in 1914.
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All of this is literally meaningless. I don't see anything here that says "You have to pay respect to this word, and if you don't, it's "hatred towards people from other countries". The fact that you actually thought that, makes you kind of a knucklehead. Just saying. Americans make up dumb terms for things all the time, doesn't mean they're now the defacto term for something.

Anyway, the term is nonsense. People who use the term to try to look down on others are elitists (oh, and also nonsense). Was there anything else that needed clearing up?
 
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i looked up tactical bushcraft knives
 
Blues said:
Bougiecraft...reserved for only those who can afford it...and have others build their shelters for them.
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Car campers everywhere are looking at you in a hurtfully judgemental way right now, like they've just been attacked. šŸ¤£
 
Quiet said:
Car campers everywhere are looking at you in a hurtfully judgemental way right now, like they've just been attacked. šŸ¤£
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Haters gotta hate.

(I love car campers...since they generally get no further than a few hundred yards down the trail.)

(Ducking and running.)
 
EngrSorenson said:
not until you build a balanced rocking chair from branches and spruce bows using nothing but 17 hand tools, one of which being your "bushcraft knife", in the "woods".
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You don't get taught how to make a rocking chair in Bushcraft College until you've passed Kuksa and spoon carving classes first. That's just what I heard, anyway.
 
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