Bushcraft Knife $65 Cap

Get a Mora knife. With the remaining money, buy "Bushcraft" by Mors Kochanski and "The Outdoor Survival Handbook" by Ray Mears AND a Fiskars hatchet from Amazon. You'll get free shipping to boot.

Bushcraft is a skillset, it isn't a knife. With these 2 books, a knife and hatchet, you will have some tools to start your journey.
 
CWL said:
Get a Mora knife. With the remaining money, buy "Bushcraft" by Mors Kochanski and "The Outdoor Survival Handbook" by Ray Mears AND a Fiskars hatchet from Amazon. You'll get free shipping to boot.

Bushcraft is a skillset, it isn't a knife. With these 2 books, a knife and hatchet, you will have some tools to start your journey.
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Not a bad idea, but all that info is available for free on the web *if* one is willing to invest the time searching.
 
Oh, I would agree, but internet service can be hard to get when you're in the middle of the woods, besides, the pages make a very good fire tinder ... as well as toilet paper!
 
I'll be another to add, try the mora. Especially if you don't intend to be chopping or batonning with it, its hard to find a tool that will give you a better cost to utility ratio.
 
CWL said:
Oh, I would agree, but internet service can be hard to get when you're in the middle of the woods, besides, the pages make a very good fire tinder ... as well as toilet paper!
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Aha, I see now. Take the books with you into the woods. And for TP it sure beats poison ivy.
 
Get yourself a Becker BK2 and your great-grandkids can bushcraft with it as well.

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... or craft things in the bushes or out of bushes - whatever.

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CWL said:
Get a Mora knife. With the remaining money, buy "Bushcraft" by Mors Kochanski and "The Outdoor Survival Handbook" by Ray Mears AND a Fiskars hatchet from Amazon. You'll get free shipping to boot.

Bushcraft is a skillset, it isn't a knife. With these 2 books, a knife and hatchet, you will have some tools to start your journey.
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For a beginner, I have to agree with this. Mora + Fiskars Hatchet = lots of experimentation and learning. By the time you beat them up, you will be proficient and have a better idea of what nice tools you want long term.
 
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Keep the Mora's.

I know what the OP is asking, but if I were camping in Washington, I'd want a bigger knife, something around the 8 to 10" mark, especially if its the only tool I have with me. If its not, and you are actually doing bushcraft, whittling, crafting traps, making little items to make easier...I'll forego the "knife" all together and bring a Wave or a Surge.
 
ZZ, you gots to read Bushcraft by M. Kochanski. He teaches survival in N. Canada in conditions very similar to Washington's wilderness warm or cold. The techniques he teaches are done with a Mora #1, but then again, he also believes in a "trinity" of knife, ax and saw.
 
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