scoutcraft

[ skout-kraft, -krahft ]

/ ˈskaʊtˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft /

practice of or skill at scouting.

skill in the program of activities of the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts.

Origin of scoutcraft

First recorded in 1900–05; scout¹ + craft

He need not be an expert at scoutcraft; a good scout master will discover experts for the various activities.

Boy Scouts Handbook |Boy Scouts of America
It made noise; and we must get the burros by Scoutcraft alone.

Pluck on the Long Trail |Edwin L. Sabin
It would be a test in which every faculty of the searcher's scoutcraft would be brought into active exercise.

Kiddie the Scout |Robert Leighton
He at once began to exercise his scoutcraft in the endeavour to puzzle out the mystery.

Kiddie the Scout |Robert Leighton

This means unnecessary loss of men, owing entirely to lack of training in scoutcraft and stalking.

At Suvla Bay |John Hargrave