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    WHEN STEEL MEETS THE WOOD

    Mar 22, 2022 5 minutes
    BY DEXTER EWING BLADE® FIELD EDITOR
    IMAGES BY MARTY STANFIELD, MARTY STANFIELD PHOTOGRAPHY

    Bushcraft is a specialized skill set that ensures survival in the wilderness using foraging, hunting, fishing, shelter construction and firecraft, all accomplished with minimal tools. The primary bushcraft implement is a fixed blade employed not only for food prep but the other mentioned skills, too. As a result, such a fixed blade must be a tough tool capable of more than just standard cutting tasks, including whittling, carving, splitting wood or, in conjunction with a ferrocerium rod, starting a campfire. Following are four of the latest factory examples of the genre.

    The most affordable bushcraft model of the test bunch, the Boker Magnum Life Knife has a 3.9-inch blade of 440A stainless steel in a modified clip-point pattern. Built rugged for the outdoors, the knife comes

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