Bushcraft is the art of living in the wilderness. It is a skill that has been practiced for centuries by people all over the world. Bushcraft survival equipment can be anything that you need to help you stay alive in the wilderness. This could include things like a knife, a fire starter, a shelter, and a first aid kit.

The Basics of Bushcraft Survival Equipment

There are a few essential pieces of bushcraft survival equipment that everyone should have. These include:

• Knife: A knife is one of the most important tools in bushcraft. It can be used for a variety of tasks, such as cutting wood, making shelter, and preparing food. A Morakniv Companion Heavy Duty is a great all-around knife for bushcraft. It is durable, versatile, and affordable. Check out this top rated bushcraft knife here.
  
  
   
• Fire Starter: A fire starter is essential for starting a fire in wet or windy conditions. It is easy to use and can be stored in a small space. A ferro rod is a great option. It is lightweight and durable, and it can be used to start a fire even in the most challenging conditions. Find a great fire starting kit here.
  
  
   
• Shelter: A shelter will protect you from the elements. This could be something as simple as a lean-to or as complex as a tarp shelter. Learn more about survival shelters here.
   
• Sleeping Bag: A sleeping bag will keep you warm at night. Get one that’s rated to 0 degrees Fahrenheit, so you can stay warm even in cold weather.
   

Other Bushcraft Survival Equipment

In addition to the basics, there are a few other pieces of bushcraft survival equipment that can be helpful. These include:

• Backpack: A backpack is essential for carrying your gear. A Goralium Backpack is a comfortable and durable backpack that is perfect for bushcraft. It has a large capacity, so you can bring everything you need with you.
   
• Water Filter: A water filter will help you to purify water from streams and lakes. A Sawyer Mini Water Filter is a lightweight and effective water filter that is perfect for bushcraft. It can remove 99.999% of bacteria and protozoa from water, making it safe to drink.
   
• Compass: A compass can help you to find your way in the wilderness. A Suunto MC-2 Compass is a reliable and accurate compass that is perfect for bushcraft. It is small and lightweight, so you can easily carry it with you.
   

  First Aid Kit: A first aid kit is essential for treating injuries. This should include bandages, antiseptic, and pain medication. A Goralium First Aid Kit is a comprehensive first aid kit that is perfect for bushcraft. It has everything you need to treat minor injuries, as well as some more serious injuries.
   

Other Related Topics

In addition to the basic and essential items listed above, there are a few other related topics that you may want to consider when packing for a bushcraft trip. These include:

• Clothing: You will need to pack clothing that is appropriate for the climate and environment you will be in. For example, if you are going to be in a cold climate, you will need to pack warm clothing.
• Food: You will need to pack food that is lightweight and easy to carry. You may also want to pack some high-energy snacks, such as trail mix or granola bars.
• Tools: In addition to a knife, you may also want to pack some other tools, such as a saw, a hatchet, or a multi-tool.
• Navigation: In addition to a compass, you may also want to pack a map and a GPS unit.
• Other: There are a few other items that you may want to pack, such as a headlamp, a flashlight, and a whistle.

Conclusion

Bushcraft survival equipment can be a lifesaver in the wilderness. By having the right gear, you can stay safe and comfortable even in the most challenging situations. It is important to choose

Why is it that we leave the comforts of our homes to spend a few nights in nature where we are intimately affected by the weather, bugs, local animals, and the like? It is because we instinctively know that getting away from modern technology and sources of stress is good for us.

Natural surroundings and exercise help us to destress. Our bodies feel better and our health improves over time.

With no cell phone service, we are forced to connect with the people we are there spending time with. Satisfaction and confidence come from the knowledge that one has built the place he lives and cooks.

We do need to be well-prepared during our outdoor getaways, though, or else lack of basic necessities will become a new source of stress. Having sufficient bushcraft survival equipment is key.

The Bushcrafting Lifestyle

Traditional campers pack absolutely everything they will need, from food on, to supply them for a planned number of days in the great outdoors. They sleep in a tent, their vehicle, or in a cabin. They often cook on a camp stove. If all goes as planned, few survival skills or tools are needed.

Bushcrafters are a different breed of camper because the bushcraft lifestyle is a minimalist one, taking roughing it in the great outdoors to an entirely different level. Strictly speaking, a well-trained bushcrafter can survive indefinitely out in nature by using just thier skills and a few specific supplies – some knives, an axe, a saw, and a good iron skillet and/or pot.

A well-trained bushcrafter creates their shelter from tree limbs, leaves, bark, and other things found in nature. He knows how to work with ropes and cords, tie knots, lash, thatch roofs. He fishes, hunts, and forages for their food. He cooks over a campfire. He also knows how to bake in a dutch oven pot in the ground, build and bake in an earthen oven, and filter water using things from nature. He may even have the skills of a ham operator, farmer, and an emergency medical technician.

The ability to live comfortably in an inhospitable environment depends on one’s level of survival training and on having the amount of bushcraft survival equipment that is appropriate for the level of training one has. As the bushcraft saying goes, the more bushcraft skills you have, the less stuff you need. Conversely, then, the less bushcraft skills you have, the more supplies you need. And many people fall short of being a highly trained, hardcore bushcrafter.

Bushcraft Survival Equipment

The line between a typical camper and a bushcrafter is sometimes blurred these days, but the main distinction between the two remains in the area where a person sleeps and how he cooks. Where most people would sleep in a tent and fire up a camp stove, a bushcrafter would use their axe, saw, and knife to create their shelter and their campfire.

Whether you are a typical camper, a bushcraft survivalist, or somewhere in between, you will need to plan for your shelter, food, clean water, fire, survival clothing, navigational equipment, travel and weather-related equipment, and first aid and SOS supplies. Gora-Liv offers light weight versions of most of the camping or bushcraft supplies you need to fill these needs.

Shelter

As a bushcrafter, you will need an axe, small saw, and a carving knife or two to create wiki-ups, lean-tos, and other structures from tree branches, limbs, and/or tree bark, among several options. You can cheat and purchase cordage or else make cordage from plant roots for assembling things like wiki-up doors.

There are many bushcraft how-to videos on YouTube, but the ones put out by the trainer from Sigma 3 Survival School are among the best. their version of a wiki-up shelter includes a front door, a custom-fitted bed made of tree logs and debris, a rock-lined campfire with extra rocks to heat up and put under the bed on cold nights, a drying rack over the fire, a lean-to “chair” back that sits on the ground, and a grain-grinding rock.

A tarp, raincoat, or pergola canopy can be used for quick temporary shelter from the elements. Many sizes of tents are available for the non-bushcrafter, ranging from very small tents up to large multi-room tents.

Natural, high-quality sheepskin gloves, high carbon steel woodworking axes, outdoor knives, hand tools, and other items are available at Gora-Liv for bushcraft. Some smaller tents and pergola canopies are sold by Gora-Liv for backpackers. Bedding items carried by Gora-Liv include air mattresses, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, hammocks, and dirt-resistant, waterproof wool composite blankets.

Food

The bushcrafter will fish, hunt, and forage for their food. A fishing rod can be made by hand, though purchased hooks and line could be used. The rod could be securely positioned on a riverbank while the fisherman attends to other things, such as setting up traps for animals or foraging for berries, pine nuts, pine needles, and other things using handmade baskets. Throughout the day, the bushcrafter checks whether he’s got a fish on the hook or a snared animal.

Any dressing of killed animals would be done far away from the camp so that bears are not attracted to the campsite. The bushcrafter may kill a large animal once a year or so and dry its meat on a rack that he made from tree limbs and placed over a campfire. He would likely make jerky or pemmican with the dried meat. Pemmican provides a meat source that can stay preserved in animal skin for years. It was eaten by ocean-bound sailors, fighting soldiers, cross-country travelers, and others for centuries.

Cooking over a campfire is the bushcrafter’s style; the non-bushcrafter would use a camping stove. Grain grinding and other food processing would be done by a bushcrafter on a large flat rock, and the baking would be done in a skillet over fire, in a cob oven, or in a dutch oven pot that is put into the ground under hot campfire coals.

A bushcrafter would find various knives, cookware, an axe, a folding campfire shovel, and fire-starting supplies essential to cooking bushcraft style. He could make utensils, bowls, and plates out of wood or cheat and just purchase those things as well. Gora-Liv offers all of those things as well as some nice folding outdoor gas stoves and other items that would make mealtimes less of a chore. Hunting and fishing gear could be purchased elsewhere.

Water

Having a good supply of clean water is vital to survival. Not only is it needed for drinking, but it is needed to prepare and grow food, and to clean with. The bushcrafter can filter water by funneling water through charcoal and sand a few times to remove harmful contaminants and sediments.

A much easier and more effective way to filter water would be to use Gora-Liv’s mini water purifier or our portable purifier water filter straw. One could also invest in one of Berkey’s much larger water filtration systems if camping in a group. Gora-Liv also sells mugs, thermoses, canteens, water bottles, and Italian espresso coffee makers for camping.

Fire

Fire is indispensable to the bushcrafter since he uses fire to cook, boil water, bake, dry meat, dry wet clothing, stay warm, and to see at night. Gora-Liv has foldable titanium wood stoves for backpackers, durable 15-inch PU leather open-top drawstring bushcraft tinder storage pouches, kerosene lighters, and flint lighters.

Clothing

It is important to have clothing that is appropriate for the weather, especially during times of temperature extremes. Unless a person is in the bed of a wiki-up with a campfire going and hot rocks under their bed, wintertime will be spent with cold air on three sides of their body and warm air on the side that faces the fire. One needs to make sure he is covered in layers of clothing in the winter and that he is as cool as possible during extremely hot weather. Accessories also count.

You can find outdoor clothing for survival at our shop. Some items include:

• Short sleeve tees
• Long sleeve tees
• Flannel jackets
• Womans flannel
• Sweatshirts
• Men’s winter hiking pants
• Waterproof pants
• Rain jackets
• 100% wool wide brim men’s top cloche Panama hats
• Men’s leather work gloves.

Navigation

Nothing can be more unnerving to a bushcrafter or backpacker than being lost in the wilderness. One needs to know where they are relative to a major road or city and also have a compass on hand that they can use to guide them back to that road or city.

Travel

Living in nature involves a lot of walking. Backpacks are necessary for backpackers to carry their many items into camp. Headlamps are useful for walking in the dark or for fixing or locating something in the dark. Gora-Liv provides duffle bags, backpacks, and headlamps for their backpacker customers. Stickers for car windows are also available.

Weather

Gora-Liv has outdoor heaters to keep campers warm in the winter. They also have tents, awnings, and water-resistant clothing items to keep them dry.

First Aid and SOS

The skills of an emergency medical technician would be ideal for living away from society because you never know what emergency might come up. No matter what a person’s medical training, a Gora-Live first aid kit may come in handy one day. The 11-inch survival kit set includes many different useful items, but it includes first aid SOS EDC emergency supplies.