I'm protesting 'Bushcraft' on principle!

its just a sale point like they call station wagons crossovers cars now. If your trying to sell something like knife with tens of thousands of different knifes to choose from it gives your product a name to stand out a bit from the crowd. Any knife can be used for "bushcraft" tasks, hell early man used some rocks he/she chipped to a sharp point a method that still works today. I guess that was the original bushcraft knife.
 
So if I'm slicing a bush of broccoli in the kitchen with my Contego, could that be called TACTICAL BUSHCRAFT???? :D
 
Hold on a sec, I'm trying to join, but I have to type a little slower on my Bushcraft Edition Laptop. It's got wooden keys and I keep getting splinters...
Mine not only has wooden keys, but also a hamster wheel power supply. Hold on while I change out hamsters. The little guy in there right now looks pooped. :D

I don't really care what they call a knife or other tool. I buy what I like and avoid what I don't based upon the features of the tool.
 
Yeah Im sick of both BUSHCRAFT and TACTICAL. It is hard to stop the hype machine though, yay marketing! Just don't buy that stuff. While we're on this what about excessive camo? Anyone ever drop a camo hunting knife? Is it so the deer won't see you gutting them? Ive never understood it.

Real laughter was produced when I read this! "That poor deer didn't even see it coming..."

I feel like there's always going to be stupid trends out there, that's life. That said, at the end of the day I don't care what its called as long as it works. What comes to mind for me when I think "bushcraft" is the same as someone else said here, a 4ish" blade with Scandi grind, full tang, and wider contoured scales. That style has been very effective for my uses so I certainly can't complain.
 
"Bush" to describe the woods/outback/wilderness seems more associated with Oz and/or New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. We would traditionally use "woods."

Exactly. There has been "woods knives", and "wilderness knives" here for a long time. The Bushcraft term doesn't bother me at all, but since we don't use the term "Bush" I've never figured out why they term caught on so well.

They only make what people buy.

They've made this type of knife for a very long time. The word is for marketing, and is relativly new.
I have no problem with it though.
 
"Bush" to describe the woods/outback/wilderness seems more associated with Oz and/or New Zealand, Canada and South Africa. We would traditionally use "woods."

A boycott implies that you actually care what people call things. I think you have too much energy. Good weather will solve it all.


For me, Thomas Linton's post is the most reality based one in this tread.

Go to the UK., Australia, New Zealand, Africa etc., you'll find the term: into the "Bush" as common as: into the "Woods" is here in America.
Personally I am not hung up on or bothered by trivial terminology, if it opens my boxes and envelopes or allows me to cut a thick or thin rope or hose or allows me to
make a shelter or fire in the woods when I'm alone or with others under any circumstances...or allows me to defend myself should that need arise, I could care less what the activity engaged in, or knife used is called.

Want to protest/boycott something?.... boycott knives made in China no mater how reasonably priced (a.k.a. cheap) they are, no matter if several 'American' companies sell them.
That's right.... I am no longer buying knives "Made In China"... they are hacking into our computers both corporate and private.... they collapsed
The the internet in South Korea last week.... the majority of drywall made in China and sold to naive uninformed Americans is saturated with toxic chemicals as well as in most
children's toys and cheap plastic bowls sold to actually eat food out of.
Reality is real, no need to go on.
I currently only buy knives made in the U.S.A., Italy, Germany, France, Sweden... all in my opinion superior to inexpensive Chinese items.
There are over twenty four million Americans currently out of work, I'm choosing not to support Chinese labor... simply my own personal choice.
 
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I'll take bushcraft over survival or tactical any day of the week. Bushcraft seems the most consistent in that it is meant for general wood work and camp work. whereas survival and tactical are pretty made up and can mean anything.

Of course there is still a lot of variation within this term, but I have not seen it be widely abused yet.
 
So if I'm out in the words fishing and am prepping for Marshall law and possibly a zombie apocalypse I need a Bushcraft tactical skinning filet zombie killer? Bet mantis or gerber makes it
 
While I agree with you in general, my objections to how something is marketed won't keep from buying something if I determine it is actually what I need at a price I want to pay for it.

I don't think this particular sin is one that needs boycott level correction.
 
Hold on a sec, I'm trying to join, but I have to type a little slower on my Bushcraft Edition Laptop. It's got wooden keys and I keep getting splinters...

This is the funniest thing I have read all night. :thumbup:

By the way, does the screen have a Scandi grind?
 
So if I'm out in the words fishing and am prepping for Marshall law and possibly a zombie apocalypse I need a Bushcraft tactical skinning filet zombie killer? Bet mantis or gerber makes it
 
Serious bushcraft.

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I always thought that the term "BUSHCRAFT" was coined from our present president in reference to anything that was blamed on him. As another poster suggested, It will all get better with some better weather and some sonshine. Works wonders on depression and cabin fever. Its all marketing, like "New and Improved". I just bought a "New and Improved Bushcraft Tactical super folder in the new Ninja line of Camouflaged S30V-154CM super steel combo blade with G-10 grips in the new Cocobola looking color. It is a collaboration design from Spyderco/Kershaw with input from Benchmade, and crafted by CRKT. Photo's to follow when I get it from Amazon.

Blessings,

Omar
 
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