The title says it all, is it now bushcraft or has it gone over to re-enactment?
I'm not having a pop at anyone, but the more I look around and see the bushcraft 'uniform' become standard the more it looks like a re-enactment hobby to me. The standard trousers and safari shirts worn by many look like a still shot from Stewart Granger in 'King Salomon's Mines' and that is before the bushcraft hat is donned.
I talked to two mates recently, one from Norway and one from New Zealand and to their eyes UK bushcraft is fast becoming a bit of a joke; people dressed in many pounds (hundreds sometimes) worth of kit camping within walking distance of their car, carting bloody great cast iron pans to knock up a stew in etc.
This hobby is fast becoming silly to some, and again, I'm not taking a pop, but I don't know what to make of it anymore.
Am I just seeing things from the wrong angle or have some gone so far up their own ***** they can't see the light any longer?
I'm not having a pop at anyone, but the more I look around and see the bushcraft 'uniform' become standard the more it looks like a re-enactment hobby to me. The standard trousers and safari shirts worn by many look like a still shot from Stewart Granger in 'King Salomon's Mines' and that is before the bushcraft hat is donned.
I talked to two mates recently, one from Norway and one from New Zealand and to their eyes UK bushcraft is fast becoming a bit of a joke; people dressed in many pounds (hundreds sometimes) worth of kit camping within walking distance of their car, carting bloody great cast iron pans to knock up a stew in etc.
This hobby is fast becoming silly to some, and again, I'm not taking a pop, but I don't know what to make of it anymore.
Am I just seeing things from the wrong angle or have some gone so far up their own ***** they can't see the light any longer?