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

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Quiet said:
Honestly, the whole bushcraft thing smacks of peoples' inclination these days to just try to buy their way through a hobby. "Take the time to learn and exhaustively practice skills, where I'd have to get off my ass and go put in the work? Nah, let me order another high dollar knife instead because some dudes on Youtube said so, and then just put it in my super expensive tactical bag that's full of stuff I bought on Amazon, but I've never used." THAT'S the way to go." :rolleyes:

A seasoned outdoorsman could most likely do everything he needed to do with a friggin' paring knife from his kitchen.
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Totally agree. Especially that last sentence.

Around 2007, I personally witnessed a professional hunting guide in Montana field dress an elk with a 4" Rapala filet knife and I've yet to see anyone do it cleaner or faster so far.
 
dogstar said:
I see the Bushcraft hatred is alive and well on BF. Can't we all just get along?
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I don’t hate Bushcraft, in fact I enjoy it. I just hate the snobbery that comes along with it. If your not using the most expensive, bushiest, craftiness knife then you’re doing it wrong.
 
coolbreezy37 said:
I don’t hate Bushcraft, in fact I enjoy it. I just hate the snobbery that comes along with it. If your not using the most expensive, bushiest, craftiness knife then you’re doing it wrong.
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Fair enough, but there is plenty of snobbery going around in any online forum, especially here.
 
I have no issues with L.T. Wrights, Kepharts, Tops BOB, etc. I think they’re all excellent knives. I just dislike the mentality of that you HAVE to use these knives to be a TRUE outdoorsman. I can do anything they can do with my Busse TGULB.
 
coolbreezy37 said:
I have no issues with L.T. Wrights, Kepharts, Tops BOB, etc. I think they’re all excellent knives. I just dislike the mentality of that you HAVE to use these knives to be a TRUE outdoorsman. I can do anything they can do with my Busse TGULB.
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Bushcraft is a set of skills, not a set of tools. As a society we are overly fixated on consumption, brands, and cachet. The people who say you can only do bushcraft with X kind of knife are not true bushcrafters.
 
Houlahound said:
Hilarious, talking about snobbery on a knife forum is like a little fish in the ocean frantically swimming around telling all the other fish that they are in the ocean.

A Nobel prize for this discovery will not be awarded.
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So the very fact we are members here, means that we are snobs?
 
dogstar said:
Bushcraft is a set of skills, not a set of tools. As a society we are overly fixated on consumption, brands, and cachet. The people who say you can only do bushcraft with X kind of knife are not true bushcrafters.
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Exactly.
 
dogstar said:
Bushcraft is a set of skills, not a set of tools. As a society we are overly fixated on consumption, brands, and cachet. The people who say you can only do bushcraft with X kind of knife are not true bushcrafters.
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Ah, No True Scotsman, eh?
 
Quiet said:
This.

Candidly speaking, anyone who claims there's only one right knife design (or grind) for "bushcraft", probably hasn't done more than do some woodworking projects and firemaking setups for their Youtube channel in their backyard. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but let's be real. Millions of people in this country have camped since before we even were a country, and did it without having a Scandi grind "bushcraft" knife, that's a fact. Millions of folks (myself included) have camped out hundreds or even thousands of nights while growing up in the Boy Scouts or other outdoors groups, and did everything that needed doing with only a SAK, or maybe a Buck 110 folding knife or any number of other knives.

I mean, somebody better let Mr. Horace Kephart know he's been "doing it wrong" this whole friggin' time, amirite? Or maybe send an email to all those guys using ESEE and Becker knives out in the woods, tell 'em "Ehhhhh....you'd be doing better if you had a "bushcraft knife" that people on the internet said to use." I'm sure that would go over well.

This is one of the dumbest hills for these bushcraft people to die on, and I've said what I've said.
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Didn't these original outdoors men you speak of carry a butcher knife? More a kin to a $15 Old Hickory. The main task for there knife was butchering of game so they carried the best knife for that job and then used their skills to make it do everything thing else they needed.

One of the better YouTube survival guys IMO once said something along the lines of a person with great knife skills can make a $20 knife look like a $400 knife and a person with shitty knife skills can make a $400 knife look like a POS.
 
I'm afraid I have never crafted a bush, so I don't have a valid opinion to offer on correct tools for the past time.
I will comment that I note a relatively modern obsession with "must have the absolute best doohickey" among all sorts of hobbyists. Personally, I think that kind of limits the fun.
 
coolbreezy37 said:
I have no issues with L.T. Wrights, Kepharts, Tops BOB, etc. I think they’re all excellent knives. I just dislike the mentality of that you HAVE to use these knives to be a TRUE outdoorsman. I can do anything they can do with my Busse TGULB.
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I didn't see much of that on bcusa when I was a regular there.
 
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