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18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.

Saturday 5 September 2009

A List Of Basic Woodsrunner's Skills That We Practice In Our Group. How Do You Match Up?

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.
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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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