ARE BUSH CRAFTERS, CLASSIC CAMPERS? Here is Dave Canterbury’s Opinion
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IS BUSHCRAFT THE SAME AS CLASSIC CAMPING? Here is Dave Canterbury’s Opinion
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Bushcraft by Mors Kohanski
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Thank you for you views, for edification I consider myself a Woodsman and I love all skills and activities there in. www.selfrelianceoutfitters.com/products/the-bushcraft-101-field-log
To each their own. Just go outside and enjoy yourself. Glamping or bedroll on the ground. Have fun and go home smelling like a campfire: mission accomplished.
Because the masses are ignorant and the rest of us define things differently, I just call myself an Outdoorsman and that I enjoy outdoor hobbies.
When I first heard of modern
"bushcraft " it was a pretty
standard thing of having your
plastic handled carbon blade
mora knife that was $9.00
or less, your "billy can" made
from empty tomato can or
old fashioned tin plated coffee
can with a coat hanger wire
bail, and maybe a roll of jute
twine and/or a length of sisial
rope. The mora was supposed
to be the only expense out
of pocket, maybe the rope.
There wasn't anything modern
supposed to be bought or
carried, only the mora on your
belt and the pot in your hand
and your cordage in a pocket.
Sometime after someone
started the "hiney pot " fad,
then another started selling
them instead of salvaging
discards for free like the
original objective was, and
things spiraled into what
we have today with the $400
"bushcraft " knives and the
$89 titanium "bushpots" and
each "bushcrafter" carrying
a grand or two worth of
accoutrements and doo dads.
Gone from minimalists to
gearwhores.
Oh well. . . If it makes em
happy. . .
I can skin a buck
I can run a trotline
The bush is the Aussie word for being in the wild uninhabited outdoors. You said that the first use of the term was in a book by an Aussie, of course that would be the word he would use. You could call it Wood(s)craft, Fieldcraft, or Campcraft. I think we are also assuming a modern interpretation of the word 'Craft,' as meaning to make something. I think the the more appropriate way to interpret that word would be as 'Skill', 'Knowledge', or "Know-how," the way that it's used in "Witchcraft," "Stagecraft," or "Warcraft."
I like the term fieldcraft. To me it is an all encompassing. Gear, skills, and environment.
Whatever you want to call it.
ARE you having FUN !!!
Wow!! Thank you so much for sharing my brother Dave Canterbury! I just learned something new today! There is a difference between bushcraft and woodcraft, all good with me, as long as I can make it to the woods with my boys Groot and Fenris, my Great Danes…!! Strength and honor my brother, be well, catch you on the next episode!!👍🏽💯❤️🇺🇸
Ah bushcraft by Richard Graves. The book that changed my life. Traded it from another kid for a knife ironically at 12 years old! Needless to say I pretty quickly got another knife. Learned to make traps maps and ropes rub sticks together to make fire, and tie just about every knot in the book.
I'm an old fart. I turn 70 in a couple months. I filleted my first northern pike when I was 8 years old. That pike was as tall as me. That was in Northern Ontario in the 1960's. My Dad was a hunting and fishing guide. At ten years old, I got into Boys Scouts and leaned all the tricks I could, knotwork, first aid, firecraft, navigation, map making, all the classic stuff including Morse Code and Semaphore (which they do not teach anymore). In the 70's I read all I could from Field and Stream and Outdoor Life magazines. Remember Tapply's Tips? That guy had articles on all sorts of outdoorsy stuff. In the 70's I got the US field manuals for both the US Army, and the one from the Craighead Brothers, the Navy's 'How to Survive on land and Sea'. I bought the Canadian Military book, 'Down But Not Out'. Then, I found Richard Grave's 'Bushcraft'. It was all that was back then. I played in the bush all my life. I used a ferrorod before it was called a ferro rod. They called it the Metal Match. I used a mag lens to burn ants, and also to write my name in wood, as well as to light cigarettes when I smoked. It was not until the late 1990's that the Internet popularized a thing called bushcraft. Ray Mears made videos. I never heard of Mors Kochanski until the early 2000's when I moved to Alberta. (Mors and I had great conversations a few times. He was quite the guy). But, all the knowledge gained is just something useful when camping, fishing, hiking, canoeing, and at the cottage. I had no need to know a bow drill, because I always carry a ferro rod and a lighter. I learned the bow drill, for fun, in 2010! I also love flint and steel, it is useful and fun. But, yes, the survival manuals started it all. My Dad just knew how to manage in the bush. And he could hunt and fish. The term 'Bushcraft' has gotten out of proportions. And most are just plain cocky about what they know. But they are not the first, so they should be humble. There is always more to learn, at any age.
Thank you Dave. I feel your pain, brother. Just get out there and have fun. That journal is not new, but it sure will be useful for anyone going out there with a purpose. I recommend it as useful kit.
"The more you know, the less you carry." (Mors Kochanski)
Dave I like your mindfulness that shows in this video and the value of your thinking about “systems” for gear etc. that’s why I use SRO for stuff-it’s the “Thought (behind it) That Counts”. Got all your books too, Keep up the great work!
My definition of bushcraft is camping while "practicing" primitive survival skills with limited supplies, all the way to just chopping and whittling on wood in my back yard with an axe and knife. Its great skills to have just in case and its fun.
Graves book is one of the first I got back in the 70's and it's still my go to book. He wasn't just an instructor he ran search and rescue during WWII.
As an older bloke, well past 80, and a Boy Scouts leader for many years, including being a Scouts Leader Trainer in Oz, things have changed significantly throughout the years and they will continue to do so. But one of the things that we taught was getting back to nature and self reliance rather than using the latest and greatest that was available, So many stories to tell from those outings and failures from not doing as taught, that in many cases were very funny, but others that ended up being good learning experiences.
I currently live east of the Mississippi River, and if all goes well, I will soon be moving to west-central Arkansas, just west of the Mississippi River. Similar woodland environments, perhaps rockier and hillier than central Maryland. I agree on the multiple tools scenario, with each tool optimized for a specific range of tssks.
There's a tremendous difference between leaving one's so-called *"civilized"* home with all of its 21st century conveniences and venturing forth into the forest for a few hours to a few *(2-3)* days, and the totality of the tools one either *NEEDS to carry, or WANTS to carry,* in order to satisfy one's ego that they are an accomplished outdoorsman/woodsman/bushcrafter, and still possesses the skillsets and the chops to prove it.
There's a totally different mindset, skillsets, and toolset that's going to be required for one to leave that same 21st century home for an extended period of time, perhaps permanently; and the number, bulk, and weight of the green wood woodworking tools and seasoned wood woodworking tools that an accomplished woodworker is going to want to carry on his back or in some type of human or animal-drawn conveyance.
If one is going to be required by absolute necessity, dictated by seasonal weather conditions, to build a semi-permanent to permanent shelter for 365 days of the year residency in a temperate North American climate for one or more adults to live in; then the tools required to as efficiently and as easily as possible build such structures are going to rise exponentially.
*A pickaxe; a mattock; a 6' long & an 8' long pry bar with one pointed end and one chisel end; felling axes; hatchets; peaveys; pickaroons; log dogs; bark spuds; short-handled and long-handled sledgehammers; steel, aluminum, or hardwood splitting wedges; long-handled and short-handled hewing axes & hatchets; long-handled and short-handled gutter and straight adzes; straight framing chisels; square-corner framing chisels; large framing gouges; 1/8"-1.5" sets of short-handled chisels and gouges; straight and curved drawknives; straight & curved spokeshaves; splitting froes; a steel band reinforced 20lb-24lb hardwood commander maul; a full set of hardwood and greenwood capable boring bits ranging from 1/4" to 1.5" by 1/4" increments as well as 2" to 4" boring bits by 1/2" increments; the T-handles necessary to turn the boring bits; a wide variety of various sizes of saws for both green woods and seasoned woods; a saw set; sharpening stones; lubricants; leather strops & their sharpening compounds; a boatload of the best quality files and rasps; multiple sizes and numbers of blocks & tackles with their associated cordages or ropes; all kinds of measuring tools, squares, protractors, levels, plumb bobs, and chalk lines; and other tools too numerous to mention.*
*The tools required will be •ENTIRELY• dependent upon what type of structure(s) one needs to build, the strengths required of the load bearing walls, and the needs of the structure's roof to withstand heavy snow and ice loads.*
Our pioneer ancestor house builders in colonial and 19th century North America carried these tools on their backs in large wooden trunks with tumplines, on horseback, and in horse-drawn, oxen-drawn, and mule-drawn wagons.
At 64 years old now, Simple is Best! I dislike gadgets and extra junk I don’t need in the first place, unless as you say, they have multiple needed functions. Then, I still think about it!😂
I was fortunate to have my grandfather teach me in the 70’s what his uncle DC Beard taught him. I always knew camping as “wood crafting”growing up. I continue to pass down what I was taught and looking forward to showing my grand kids the family traditions.
Another great video Dave!
Well said, I have a mixture of old gear, modern gear, home-made gear and store bought gear, I love camp crafting stuff to keep my skills in check so if needed I can use them to make what is needed. forgetting a spatula or spoon is not a big deal anymore.
Richard Graves book back in the 70s was my first introduction to the term 'Bushcraft'...that book was actually a compilation from a series of booklets he wrote for the Australian military...thanks David...woods
I agree with your assessment of bushcraft, woodcraft and camping. I also have always seen bushcraft as a way of life for many of my ancestors as well as a way of life for all natives, all early humans. I think that’s why it’s so easy to feel such a natural connection to bushcraft.
Boy howdy am I looking forward to passing a palaver with you at Squirrel Camp Dave. See you in a few weeks!
Considering that the term bushcraft came from an Australian, them saying in the bush is the same as us yanks saying in the woods or in the wilderness. So, technically, woodcraft, bushcraft, and wilderness craft are all the same thing. I always viewed bushcraft as the skills necessary to survive/live in the bush, woodcraft as the skills to survive/live in the woods. Same thing, just different terms based on country of origin.
Dave Canterbury thank you for this video. The concepts of woodcraft and bushcraft IMHO go back to the description by the people talking about them and before. The Brits talk about going into the bush, which really means anything outside that is not civilized. This reaches around the world where the British went. Going into the woods is an American description.
So the term Bushcraft becomes more prevalent worldwide as Football is more prevalent then American Football as a term.
I am just glad that we do not have terms like Woodglamp and Bushglamp.
This is why I love your modern longhunter series
Dave, this is an excellent historical overview of the origins of the Bushcraft term and how it has evolved into what we think of it today. We appreciate the research that went into your preparation of this video. As always, thank you for another informative chapter.
Brilliant idea. Creating a fishing journal at 16 taught me more than I ever imagined it could.
Not just about moon phase, tides etc, but a real feel for the natural world. When this happens to you, you will notice things others don't and that means not just a deeper appreciation for life but a far better chance of thriving, not just surviving...
Here a man in the know has fast tracked for us what took me more than a year just in fishing.
Brilliant idea Dave.💜👍
Respect and honour.
Universal Sovereign Citizen
Very illuminating Dave! I have always been fascinated with making the tools you need to live off the land using what you have around you in order to make life easier or glamping. I think mixing the old with the new together is the ticket! I also think the old school fellas would have loved to have all the options we have available to them and would have mixed it up and used them as well.😂 To me, that is what a survivor does anyway! Thanks for your take on all of this. That is why I follow your vlog!😊
It's Shawn D-y-e-r (Dier, long i) not D-w-y-e-r. I get called Dwyer more often than one would think, lol. Great thoughts brother, thanks for sharing.
I discovered RUclips maybe 7-8 years ago. It took me a bit to figure out this bushcraft business. It struck me even then that back in the early 70's in Boy Scouts we just called this camping. Nothing new under the sun! 🤣🤣🤣. (Edit) I forgot to add I love your hat, I have one nearly identical. I have another made of wool with a very similar shape that I use in colder weather.
Man dave i loved this outlook. And cant wait to see your kit for this period. I grew up watxhing you qhen you were doing the long hunter and stuff. Thanks for this informative video my friend
Good explanation of woodscraft vs bushcraft. I have spent a lot of time out in the forrest and woods over my 71 years. I actually have been a might confused about that myself. I have always thought of myself as more of a camper. I have gone car camping, taking modern conveniences and I've gone taking a pocket knife, pot and blanket. I love staying In the forrest and just enjoying the experience. I like practicing the skills my grandparents had and teaching those skills to my grandkids. When I was a kid if we stayed in the forrest over night we just called it camping. Anything we made from the landscape to help us was just a fun part of the overall experience.
Sir I hope you are teaching marketing in your spare time, at the closest community college! You are phenomenal!
I'm currently reading Kephart's "Camping & Woodcraft" & enjoying it. He suggests wearing an old suit. Seems so weird. He does discuss some fabrics, pants and jackets that sound pretty cool.
To me bush craft is not a style but a skill used for either survival or making something from the landscape to serve a purpose. Classic camping is nostalgia which includes bushcraft because back then they didn’t have modern convenience like amazon delivery or the varieties or shops we have to day. Early settlers and even today in less fortunate countries people make do with what they find and make themselves what ever they may need.
I feel like bushcraft is more of a skill set than an activity.
And survival is a day to day thing, until it’s not. Just like Dave said “however you feel like getting it done”
-thanks for another great video sir.
Good talk. I'm looking forward to that field guide.
I'm very much looking forward to this new journal book.
Very well said, Dave. No one should take offense because one shares their opinion. If they don't agree, don't watch. I am not a "bushcrafter" in the sense that Richard Graves would think of......far from it. Here in a lot of the Southwest, there is a fire ban most of the summer. I get outdoors and cook using an alcohol burner most of the time. I mix mountain biking with camping. I use a minimum of tools to improvise things from the landscape. Am I practicing "bushcraft"? No. I am outdoors enjoying myself, solo or with whomever I am with. That is all that matters. Thanks for sharing. Be well.....
Nice one. congratulations on your new book I really hope it goes super well. 😊
Just get out in nature. Carry what you want and discard what you don’t want to carry. Enjoy the process and don’t worry about definitions.
Great book idea Dave. Have a few friends will buy for.
Nice vid David! Agreed! A great synopsis.
I was going to say that you should work with Rite in the Rain to do a waterproof version (obviously you have already started on that version) and also have the camp map and observation pages have the “dot grid” that they have. I’d definitely be interested in the waterproof version but even more so with the “dot grid”.
When I'm sitting on my back porch enjoying a campfire that I lit with my Bic lighter and some hand sanitizer I'm not bushcrafting but I am outdoors, and I do enjoy it.
I’m so glad that you put all of this out on the table for to examine. As an aging Life Scout, I’ll admit the term bushcraft rubbed me the wrong way because I couldn’t get my arms around the conceptual difference between “bushcraft” and the skills of being a woodsman. To me, being a woodsman was having advanced skills that learned as a scout. I still have my Scout Manuals, Merit Badge books,and Fieldbook and these are where I learned how to be a woodsman. In my mind, I just exchanged the term bushcraft for woodsman and kept practicing my woodsman skills and I’ve got the merit badges to prove it. I like your definition that links “bushcraft” with survival, although actual survival is nothing more than applying advanced woodsman skills in a survival situation…sort of like you did on your TV program. (Note to world: without you and your advanced woodsman skills, that barefoot snowflake partner of yours would have perished in week one…just saying). So, this Elder Scout never uses the term bushcraft; always woodscraft and woodsman. Thanks for sharing and doing what you do.
Good video Dave.
Personally my definition of survival and bushcraft
Survival: meeting your immediate needs. Using more modern man made items.
Bushcraft: substitute tools, food, medicine etc procured off the landscape one finds themselves in.
However you want to define either is fine I don't care a whole lot. It's really the same at the end of the day. Staying alive.
I was always interested in survival, I was influenced as a young kid in the early 1980s by Lofty Wiseman, I was lucky enough to meet him about 8 years ago. I first heard of bushcraft when Ray mears appeared in Tele.
In my opinion “Bushcraft” is a camping mindset. For example, when a person is camping anything that they can think of and then create with the knowledge, tools, and natural resources at hand to make the trip safer more comfortable and more relaxing is bushcrafting. My interpretation of the books that I have read that were written by George Washington Sears, Horace Kephart, and etc is that taking the smallest amount of pack tools and resources and then self producing everything else is what they would think of as Bushcraft. It’s hard to be sure exactly what they would think since they have been dead for 100ish years.
Hi dave love the channel my definition on bushcraft is someone who can go into the wilderness un supported and live off the land with a combined vast set of skills to thrive .a lot of people would say thats survival but its only survival when you are put into that enviroment by accident
The ESEE kukri is one of the best designed kukri blades to buy for bushcraft use ✅
Here in Australia all of our forests, jungles, scrub, grasslands, deserts, coastal forests, alpine regions, etc are “the bush” so make of that what you will. If you’re not in a town you’re in the bush….or “out in the sticks.” 😂
To me, Bushcraft is primarily having: 1) the knowledge; and 2) the skills, to be able to live in the wilderness with minimal gear. Tools are definitely a part of it but shouldn’t be the factor that equals your death should you lose them. You have backups to your backups of the most important few items but if you somehow end up with nothing you can still manage well enough with natural resources.
“The more you know the less you carry.” - Mors Kochanski
And if a tool does more than one thing, even better.
Great video David! I can't wait to get your new book!
I have no idea what folks would call what I do. Most anything that has to do with being in the wilderness with a mix of old, new and homemade stuff.
I know stuff and I do things...always looking to learn more and love trying new and new TO ME gear.
When I think of "Classic camping" my mind goes to a base camp and a Baker tent - before the term "Bushcraft" became popular in the U.S. thanks to folks like Mors Kochanski and Ray Mears, we simply said "Survival skills". For me, "Bushcraft" describes skills, not only to survive, but to make one's self a bit comfortable while "living in the woods" rather than just surviving in them. -=dave=-
OBTW - I also believe "Woodsman" was a better description if/when you become good at it. 😉
Thanks for the video! Can you do a video on how you do notes throughout your day please.
Excellent video, looking forward to the new book. 17:06
Dave, agree. Labels and meanings change with time. “Bush” to me is remote, woods, wilderness, Outback, etc. it is an indicator of exposure/risk/isolation, to detach from the safety of the group, civilization. “Bush” potentially is survival and self rescue. Craft is synonymous with skills. So for me, bushcraft is survival and self rescue skills. Whether tools are primitive, classic, modern, whatever, using the skills is all bushcraft. Camping is recreation and enjoying nature, survival is not recreation or enjoyment. Watching Les Stroud survive it really seems to suck. Camping can be bushcraft practice like making char cloth across from your kids roasting marshmallows in a campground with flush toilets cuz that’s how they and their mom rolls😁 in this case is dad bushcrafting? Its all about perspective and what skills you practice to get in and out of the bush in one piece. We are all happy campers in the bush one oh crap away from applying survival skills. Good video. Got a bunch of us thinking. Please future conversations on this just bust the two hours videos into 30 min each. Another series?
You hit the nail on the head with what you wanted your 1st book to be . Canadians and Australians go into the bush. Americans go into the woods. Therefore Woods Craft. Woodsman or Bushman or Jungleman?
Marketing hhmm?
I think bushcraft is a very broad term. Even the modern backpacker crosses over into bushcraft to some degree. It really is quite individualized based on what your goals are as well as your skillset. Certainly anyone in the woods needs to be mindful of the potential for a survival situation
Thanks Dave
I was given a book called wild wood wisdom when I was five. I have purchased and given copies of this to my sons. I am now 60 and have used this teaching my entire life. Please read it or please let me know if you have. I own most of your books and you are right . Thank you
Really good ideas. Thanks. I've thought things similar but not as informed as you.
The make good saw back machete and bowie knives you can do both types of things with one item...
I look at bushcraft as a series of survival skills a person has collected from experience and from experienced people, that allows you to stay alive in the bush. Weather it is a camping trip, or a forced incident, i believe its the skills for keeping yourself and others alive for both short and long term events in the woods
Outstanding video and value
Informative video, I like the Hat 👍 we all like the sun but the sun don't like us.
In my mind it is you Dave , that carries the torch passed down from Sears, Kephart,ect, passing lost or ignored skills down to us.
I think the term Outdoorsman , or Woodsman is more along what we do .
I think the way most people look at bushcraft these days is a way to enjoy the outdoors and practice primitive durable skills while camping in comfort. I think most people practice bushcraft because the enjoy being in nature and camping. In the back of most peoples head when practicing they’re doing in case they ever have to survive the knowledge is there and it’s practiced. We primarily don’t have to survive these days but bad things happen. that’s my thought on BUSHCRAFT, it is survival but we don’t have to survive on a daily basis that way anymore.
Thanks Dave.
Well said, Dave.
Good discussion.
Thanks Dave!
As a Canadian, Mors is a legend to me.
Dave is the King
Thx for the Video.
I think about Bushcraft like... If you go Camping and Something went wrong so that you have to leave or face survival...you get your MacGyver Mode on and use the Outdoors(include Trash) Like a parts bin. So you can stay and enjoy, far away from survival.
That sayed, you can be at Home and doing Bushcraft ...or Training it.
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Well put
Are you going to get that fitting to connect a Sawyer filter to a 2 quart canteen like you showed in the video on your web site?
Reenactment. Exactly. And it's cool too. 😊
Bushcraft is simply doing more with less. It's about the craft not the clothes or gear.
For me Bushcraft is building what you need off the land and it's good to know some Bushcraft skills. As a hiker I think resorting to Bushcraft represents a lack of planning, I bring everything I need: Food, Water(+filter),Hygiene, First Aid, Insulation(jacket,gloves), Rain Protection, for night I have Shelter + more Insulation (ground & cover).
I prefer the term Woodsman since I’m American 🇺🇸
It’s none of that. It’s self reliance. People can play reenactment call it camping or playing Indian. In the end it’s self reliance. Survival is self reliance to the max.
Call it what you wanna call it. But go out and have fun, either it’s hiking, camping, glamping or wood/bushcraft or gold digging. Get out! Explore, succeed and fail at all different things you do. But my opinion is bushcraft is just old school camping/foraging/hunting. Here in Norway we don’t defind it like you do in us. The bushcraft as Dave explained it how he feel about bushcraft was done here til probably late 1979’s, maybe in to the 80’s.
Gotta say I pretty much agree. 🤷♂️
Primitive survival + classic camping = bushcraft.
Coming from a lineage of carpenters, woodcraft to me is building bird houses & candle holders! lol...
According to my understanding, "Bushcraft" is an Australian term, possibly also used by the British, in origin? The Brits, and the Aussies, refer to the outback, and otherwild places as "The Bush", whereas, Americans traditionally refer to it as "The Woods"; could it be simply a matter of symantics?
Hope that this tool will be translated into French
Simple, I think I can define "bushcraft" It's "Woodcraft, survivalism, camping, and general fun commercialized for the 21st century, with RUclips being the primary medium of expression". In no way is this a bad thing, it simply is what it is, and i like it. Above all, "bushcraft" is educational....
If you don't want to use the term bush craft, how about woodscraft, woodland craft, or forestcraft. Any of these would differentiate the meaning of the lesson away from woodworking like the term woodcraft has become associated with.
I'm just living for a living... "living history."
Camping is taking the equipment you need to spend the night. Bushcrafting is taking the basic tools you need to make some things you need to spend the night.
Dave your book is still the only one I've found that has a recipe for raccoon 😂. I wonder what you make of people like Lynx Valjean or Dave Elpel?
IMO, BushCraft is going out into the woods, with as minimal gear as your skills will allow, and staying for a time, maybe without creature comfort items you might bring camping (i.e. air mattress)
To me, Bushcraft is things that can be carried in on your back in one trip. No cot, no test (unless you can carry it in) amd no "camp stove"
Etc.
I did not dive into this and study the word, but didn’t Bush craft sort of come from Europe, Britain that’s what they called it. Canadians called the woods the bush Americans basically call it the woods. It’s just a word you can go out and stay in the woods the bush go bush crafting go camping. It’s all the same thing. It’s just what you do out there or to the extent of what you wanna do out there, forgive me for this but here in America, we’ve kind of turned into a business from teaching to Amazon
👍👍..nuff said .
This is what I hate about the outdoor/ survival type community. We have all these names for "bushcraft, camping , overland, bug out bag, get home bag, EDC, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah"
Here's my definition. It's camping, do whatever the fuck you want. "Bush craft" is literally in the name, whether you call it "wood Craft" or Bush Craft " it doesn't matter it's just the fact that in places like Australia they call the outdoor"the bush" and in America we call it the woods. It's just the fact that you CRAFT something FROM the landscape.... When? When camping.
Overland= camping with a car
Survival kit= just a bunch of shit you think you might need. You wanna pack a VCR? Have at it, doesn't make it any less of a, **insert name of kit here** if thats what you want to put in it.
We need to stop with the names. Stop with the categories, and just get the hell outside.
I think bushcraft is tool-heavy, those tools being used to harvest from the land... Camping is more about bringing it all with you, and is supply-heavy, where the land is treated as a supplement - Fishing as an example... You may catch some fish while you are camping, but the fishing doesn't really matter if you have plenty of Beany-Weenies back at camp. When I walk off, I am carrying tools, and little supply, because I need to be ready if I get caught out, away from supply. But by the same token, those same thoughts work with modernity - I carry a ferro rod. Tons of em. That's a fairly modern invention. I carry rechargeable gear That is certainly modern. But it is still a tool to help me build what I need off the land. Am I a purist if I also carry a 3 day provision of Mountain House in case things go sideways? No different than carrying in the flour and sugar and coffee, I'd reckon.
I agree with you 100% learned alot from my grandfather, to know what you're saying.
in Scouts I used to have a hatchet and a pocket knife.
Later when I was on backpacking trips I would take a machete a heavier Duty one because it could fill more roles but normally it's a ,
Hatchet, pocket knife, fixed blade,pistol or shot gun.
every time I'm camping hiking or in the woods.
I don't leave home without that stuff😂
A new term is needed. Maybe Woodscraft, to describe being in the woods doing primitive skills.