Woodsrunner’s Skills.
This is a list of basic skills in which I personally would expect an 18th century woodsman or woods-woman to have some experience with.
· Flint & steel fire lighting
· Wet weather fire lighting
· Flintlock fire lighting
· Flintlock use, service & repair
· Field dressing game
· Blade sharpening
· Tomahawk throwing
· Making rawhide
· Brain tanning
· Primitive shelter construction
· Cordage manufacture
· Moccasin construction and repair
· Sewing
· Axe and tomahawk helve making
· Knowledge of native plant foods
· Fishing
· Hunting
· Evasion
· Tracking
· Reading sign
· Woods lore
· Navigation
· Primitive trap construction & trapping
. Doctoring. Injuries & illness.
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