The latest Scouting magazine has just dropped through my door
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Right, I'm going to come clean...I'm one of the article writers. Actually, I've done a few now but they have all been in the Cub supplement. The articles I've done (and have in the pipeline) are not trying to re-invent bushcraft but it's getting the subject out into Scoutland. On the basis of these articles, coupled with organising the Gilwell24 bushcraft base, I've been ask to consider joining a project to look at basic skills within Scouting which could be intersting.
In the current Scouting magazine, I've done the bowdrill feature...it would have been about three pages in it's original form but it was edited down...I know that the bearing won't catch fire if there's no leaves in there
In the current Scouting magazine, I've done the bowdrill feature...it would have been about three pages in it's original form but it was edited down...I know that the bearing won't catch fire if there's no leaves in there
Saw that article and liked it... There has been a trend of "rediscovering" basic skills, at the troop my son's at, theres been more emphasis recently on knife work including maintainance and much more firelighting.. I'll look forward to more articles Mang!
scouts have been making whistles and cooking on fires for decades before bushcraft was thought of
used to be the Knife and Axe course before you could use a sharp including felling (well we did )
Backwoods cooking including wrapping in leaves, Egg in a potato or orange skin , bacon frying or boiling water in a paper bag
shelters
the works
its why Ray Mears took so long he never joined the scouts
ATB
Duncan
PS have a look at recommended other reading at the bottom of the link above
and i still use the finger width method to gauge sunset
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I've just finished reading the magazine this weekend.
Bushcraft has always been part of scouting, just under different names (backwoods cooking, pioneering, celestial navigation etc). Now that Bear Grylls is Chief Scout those skills seem to be grouped under a single banner of bushcraft, but they've always been there.
Plus bushcraft is pretty mainstream anyway - everyone knows Bear Grylls and Ray Mears, and travel supplements are full of reviews of bushcraft campsites as an alternative to "glamping".
Bushcraft has always been part of scouting, just under different names (backwoods cooking, pioneering, celestial navigation etc). Now that Bear Grylls is Chief Scout those skills seem to be grouped under a single banner of bushcraft, but they've always been there.
Plus bushcraft is pretty mainstream anyway - everyone knows Bear Grylls and Ray Mears, and travel supplements are full of reviews of bushcraft campsites as an alternative to "glamping".
greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
As far as I am concerned scouting for me when I was involved was always about outdoor skill as well as learning life skills.
Thats how it should be in every section - no matter what their age - Its spregressive training from 6 to 25.
I liked the article but in response to the beginning of thread since when has Scouts (although brilliant), been 'mainstream' and why would it matter?
Question is...when will they let me publish an illustrated article on deer prep...or rabbit for that matter...??? Think I might have to wait a while for that one...
SimonM
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Have you asked them Stovie...I'm sure that there are plenty of Scouts (and Leaders) would like to see it done properly.
Austin (Mang on here) who wrote the bushy articles says thet are crying out for new articles...
Simon
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