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  • Bushcraft week (fundamental knowledge and skills)

    95 31.88%
  • Bushcraft Weekend (based on introduction type course)

    82 27.52%
  • Bushcraft Advanced (A journeying/quest type course)

    84 28.19%
  • Tracking

    75 25.17%
  • Navigation and Bushcraft (applied bushcraft whilst learning navigation on the go)

    68 22.82%
  • Light weight travel and bushcraft (Bushcraft Journey on foot foraging/fishing/hunting on route etc)

    117 39.26%
  • Men/women only Bushcraft courses.

    7 2.35%
  • Basecamp - setting up, making furniture, beds, setting out etc

    77 25.84%
  • Skills - Campcraft and Pioneering

    68 22.82%
  • Skills -Wilderness cookery

    77 25.84%
  • Skills - Foraging / Wild foods - Forest, stream and field

    152 51.01%
  • Skills - Foraging / Wild foods - Seashore / Sea

    87 29.19%
  • Skills - Herbal Medicinal

    67 22.48%
  • Skills - Flintknapping

    47 15.77%
  • Skills - Fungi Foray

    73 24.50%
  • Skills - Bow making

    66 22.15%
  • Skills -Knife making

    71 23.83%
  • Skills - Carving and woodcraft

    88 29.53%
  • Skills - Traps and Trapping

    87 29.19%
  • Skills - Basketry & working with reeds etc

    58 19.46%
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    This thread and Poll is to get feedback on where you would like us to concentrate our Course energy Please limit your choices to 3 and only post if you would really be willing to do the Course, this is not a commitment but a real world idea of how many would be interested. If we waste time working on Courses that you aren't really interested in but you just like the sound of it's going to damage the whole thing.

    if you are interested in just one thing, if you're interested in lots of things then prioritise up to 3 of them that you would pay for and go on.

    Any questions, suggestions or enthusiasm feel free to post in this thread - There's a number of things that i left out due to limited poll spaces - Anything can be done.

    You can see a comparable poll in the bushcraft UK Expedition forum
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    Votes casted
    Fingers definately crossed
    cheers Tony for doing this
    yet another reason i love this website
    Sam
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    ''PM sent''
    Cheers Will

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    Forging would be one i'm interested in
    The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.

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    Good poll,

    need to prioritize!

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    Pretty much just the foraging ones, so thats the two foraging ones and the fungi one.

    For me the Fungi one would be ahead of the rest as the consequences of getting it wrong are more likely and often more of a problem.

    Makes no odds cos I'm skint anyway but those would be about the ones I'm interested in if I were in the market for a course if you get my drift.

    The herbal medicine would be interesting as long as its fact based (with medical evidence) and doesn't involve homeopathy or any of that water with memory of what has once been in it nonsense.

    1, Fungi
    2, Skills - Foraging / Wild foods - Forest, stream and field
    3, Skills - Foraging / Wild foods - Seashore / Sea
    4, Herbal medicine maybe, as far as I can remember Toddy has the right idea of what I understand as proper medicine as well as the book that I still haven't been able to afford yet that describes the stuff to use.

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    Sorry voted before I read the instructions.

    Thanks for the idea Mike

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikey 1 View Post
    Sorry voted before I read the instructions.

    Thanks for the idea Mike
    Me too, oops!
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    I would like to do any of those, but I forced myself to pick 3;

    Advanced Bushcraft.

    Basecamp & fintknapping as I have never really done much of that.

    For basecamp I would really like to do some metalwork, like forging a Tripod/pot hanger and other camp utensils and maybe some basketry & net making?
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    Sorry I picked more then 3 without reading the tread, doh!
    I would like to do them all but here are my top three.

    Foraging / Wild foods - Forest, stream and field
    Carving and woodcraft
    Knife making

    Sensi

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    Put mine down,thanks Tony!
    I need a huge treck! An adventure! cover some miles,miles from anywhere
    and make do with what I am carrying and the skills of those around me!
    Something different,a touch epic!
    Life is too short... AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!
    Chris.

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    I picked more than 3 too. <blush> Sorry Tony...
    "We have met the enemy and he is us."

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    I'm afraid I picked several (four!) - part of the problem of being spoilt for choice! They're areas of interest and greater weakness in my bushcraft arsenal...

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    Can we have a first aid course aswell Boss?
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    Absolutely, this years when very well and we'll be doing more next year, we jsut need to nail down the dates.

    We're thinking of doing a couple (or few) different ones.
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    Just found this thread. Great idea Tony. Can we have venues spread around the country, please.
    Fred

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    just found this & voted, great idea!!
    at the end of the day it's night time

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    Ooh, I buggered up my voting sorry! Clicked too many and can't delete my vote, I'd go for:

    Bushcraft Weekend (based on introduction type course)
    Skills - Foraging / Wild foods - Forest, stream and field
    Skills - Flintknapping


    Would want to go for the whole Bushcraft week, but would depend on time and cash.

    Dee
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    flint knapping would be great especially if it could be arranged in the north west as theres nothing like that up here.....mack

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    ahh crap - my 2nd ever post on here, voted for what i wanted to learn more about & then just read am suppossed to limit choices to 3, sorry

    would have prioritised

    1.tracking
    2.navigation & bushcraft
    3.lightweight travel & bushcraft
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    i would definately be interested in basics courses being new to bushcraft

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    Would I be considered mean to suggest a child-free weekend meet?

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    I want to do Skills - Campcraft and Pioneering course Please tell me the duration and fees of this course whether it is useful or not..

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    firstly I must apologise i voted on more than 3 subjects I didn't see the original post.
    the three that i've prioritised are: 1. Bushcraft weekend 2.Basecamp setting up etc and finally 3. carving and wood craft.
    Cheers
    SW

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    I would be intrested in shelter building , navigation, and forging food .

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    Sad to see relatively little interest in flint knapping. That, tracking and knifemaking are three things I'd definitely pay for.
    29y/o guy. Bushcraft noob. Camping amateur. Massive geek. Web developer. SAK fan. First aider.

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    please accept my apology too as I voted more than 3 . using an old mobile an still getting used to seeinglast post first.

    In priority to me
    1. lightweight travel
    2. tracking
    3. traps n trapping

    cheers

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    Judging by the post traffic on here I reckon you should a) Organise a death match between Ray and Bear and charge for tickets and b) Take everyone on a shopping trip to a camping shop.
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    Anything in Cornwall!!

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