My goal "havent made it yet" is to create fire with nothing but natural materials in your AO in 2 different ways.
To me this is the holly grail of bushcraft and is NOT! easy if you actually think about it.
"If cave men did it so can I" not as easy as it sounds.
Not many have achieved this.
Skam
I believe the
McPherson's coined the term, "primitive, primitive."
While many say they are doing things "primitively," they are still using a steel knife or axe in the task. Whether it be fire or digging out a canoe as an example. Even with steel tools, using the word "primitive" still applies here in my opinion.
Skam, correct me if I wrong, but I believe what you are are referring to is doing it from start to finish primitively = "primitive, primitive." Making your own rope and using a chert knife for the bow drill. Using a stone axe and a fire made "primitive, primitive" to dig out the canoe as another example.
I have done both the hand drill and bow drill "primitive, primitive." Without a knife and man-made rope, it was much more time consuming. Hand drill wasn't too bad as there is only two parts and I used two other primitive tools. Tool one was a coarse rock that I sanded down the sides of a dead willow stick for the hearth board. Tool two was several flakes of chert to whittle the notch and cut/scrape the spindle ~ it made my hands more sore than the drilling. Bow drill was Egyptian style, involved over 6' of dogbane cordage, the two stick method, and the socket was a pecked out rock.
First time I did the bow drill ever was my bushcraft highlight. Primitive, primitive for fire is high up there too.
