I wanted to give DD a chance to chime in, but seems he hasnt.
As mentioned DD really didnt need a knife for the duties described - he just wanted a tacticool knife.
Using the Warcraft or similar for bushcraft/cooking is of course outlandish - but then DD not only wanted a tanto and found another one (a different knife), he also mentioned stabbing someone in self-defense, when out and about with the knife.
In the current anti-knife climate in Denmark, that is simply outrageous, as the knife law is one of the strictest in the World and as knives has been outlawed for EDC.
If he stabs someone on one of his 'chopping/cooking' outings with either the knife he choose or a Warcraft, he WILL go to jail. No ifs, buts or whys about it.
So what is it about a knife that has no sharpened swedge makes it illegal? Are you saying that Tanto's are specifically forbidden. No difference in the utility asped of that knife versus a bushcraft knife. But I do not know anything about Danish laws and since OP wanted something close to a specwar, this is actually closer and still has excellent utility. So what law prohibits that knife? because what I found does not.
It has nothing what so ever to do with the no sharpened swedge, the tanto point nor that the Warcraft* from CS is butt ugly. I like several CS offerings, but wouldnt choose the Warcraft for bushcraft.
Of COURSE there is a vast gulf between the CS Warcraft and a dedicated bushcraft knife - look at SKOKUM Bush tool or a Kephart, a LT Wrigh bushcraft knife, Battle horse, Fiddleback Forge bushcraft knife and tell me again, how there is no difference in the utility aspect - simply preposterous!!
I can safely say, that the Warcraft would be the last knife, Id use for bushcraft. Maybe make a thread about it and ask people who spend a lot of time outside using a knife in nature? Youd be laughed out of the forum except by the couch ninja tacticlol brigade. Im not saying you belong to that brigade, but theyll like the Warcraft. I have a bunch of CS Tanto points but I dont use them for bushcraft.
As for the knife law in Denmark. Im interested in knife rights and try to keep tabs; carrying a knife has pretty much been bred out of people in Denmark.
You were seen as a pariah and looked at as if a maniac, if you carried the only legal knife prior to June first, 2016; a non-locking THO knife with less than 7cm blade (blade, not edge). In short the only knife, you could legally EDC was a SAK-type knife.
Any other knife would land you directly in jail.
The strict law was due to a spate of stabbings.
Criminals of course didnt care and continued to carry and stab people, as they still do.
Frisk zones are set up in Copenhagen and else where as deemed necessary. You are hauled to the side and searched. Find a knife, you got problems.
June first, 2016, a new knife law was passed: No EDC of any knife what so ever of any type UNLESS one can come up with a good story and only then if the individual cop believes you.
You have to be going directly to a valid activity, where you need the knife. Maybe hunting, scouts, wood working, to peel an apple, maybe to cut some threads on your jacket, what have you.
You are not allowed to deviate from your home and directly to the activity, when carrying a knife. You can drive from your home with the knife in the car, go hunting and drive directly home. If you stop for groceries and forget that you have a knife in your pocket or belt (ANY knife), you are committing and illegal act and are liable to prosecution.
Before, you could carry a SAK with no explanation - not no more.
On paper it sounds like, you can cough up a good story - in reality, that is not so.
Only if your explanation seems valid, will you be let go. The individual officer has a lot of leeway in regards to deciding. If he is having a bad day, so are you. The knife climate is so, that they are going after people hitherto never involved with the law. A retired person in his seventies was prosecuted because the knife, he had carried his whole life (small THO non-locking folder with less than 7cm blade) was suddenly illegal and he was spotted. This was a retired person with a clean record -never involved with any criminals or criminal activity. Examples will be made of those transgressing.
Imagine how a person an officer dont take to will be treated with a Warcraft.
If you are on an outing as DD suggested and stab someone in self-defense, you are up the creek with no paddle. Due to political climate and the pressure on politicians, police and the judges (because criminals of course still stab people left and right), he will be made an example of.
No such thing as being in the woods and stabbing someone in self-defense in Denmark. You will be in major trouble.
It simply does NOT happen there, as most people dont carry knives and if they do, theyll still get in trouble.
Poeple get attacked they have to defend themselves with their fists instead or take a beating/stabbing....,both happens quite a lot there but then of course one beating/stabbing is one too many.
Some Dane might chime in and claim that:"But police have just recently published a brand new report with the latest crime stats and the police happily announced, that violent crime is down."
That is correct; according to police stats, numbers are down. But the numbers are padded (here Ill try to circumvent politics), as its in the interest of police and their bosses not to create an uproar.
Reported violent cases are down because the police doesnt write reports reports and sometimes dont (have time/resources) to respond. Numbers are deliberately kept artificially low in order to placate the citizens. People are getting violently beat up left and right (mostly in nightlife) with no police responding.
A recent much reported case, where a parent in an apartment window observed her teenaged son getting violently attacked because he was in town with American friends (some hoods stopped them on the street because they heard English and asked if the couple of friends with the teen were Americans. When they said yes, they were all beaten up), was front page news.
She called police and told, that her son was set upon by several. Police told her, there was no no units available and they should go to the emergency room. In reality violent crime in certain places in Denmark is rampant.
Not even self-defense in your home is a valid excuse. People defending themselves at home migth still get in trouble, even if its proven, that they fled into the very last room in their home and tried barricading the door or escape through a window, they might still get in trouble.
There is NO castle doctrine.
You have to call the police and wait meekly. You will of course be dead in the mean time.
To own a knife like that and to carry it outside, DD will have to have either a permit or a valid reason for carrying it. A police officer might take umbrage, when he sees for example a Warcraft and a person states, that he will use it for bushcraft/cooking.
"Whats that knife called, son?" "You are using a knife called a Warcraft and specifically designed to be a good stabber for killing people for whittling sticks, you say" "Son, please place your hands behind your back."
*DD clerly was enamored with the tacticool SpecWar and others of its ilk and found one he liked - more so than needing the optimal tool for bushcraft/cooking.
But if really had needed the optimal tool for what he stated, recommending the Warcraft from CS plain isnt right - I mean come on, a Warcraft for bushcraft/cooking duties.....!!
Back to knives as this is getting a little too much PracTac.
