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Forget being able to shoot a gun, how many people know enough about farming to plant a garden big enough to live on? I sure don't.
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Why forgetting about shooting a gun? I can (Rifle, MG and crossbow) and I can hit a target but that's not that easy and if I know it's because i started practicing when i was less than 10. However, I'm shit with a pistol.
Worse is using a knife, a spear or something like...
For the garden, no problem. I might even know how to care for a garden that is big as a small field (without mechanical machinery).
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Reloading ammo? I know enopugh to reload small arms ammo, but what about when ready made supplies of powder and caps run out? I'm fairly knowledgable, I could make black powder, but fulminate of mercury for the caps? Smokeless or nitro powder? Ha, go fish.
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About the same. However, I can make simple bows and arrows.
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I know how to ride a horse, but I really don't have much of a clue about taking care of one other than feed and water. And cows and other farm type animals? Just an idea about that.
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No problem with that except when it come to cows. Never had to care for any. Horses are not a problem for daily care but problems arrise when it goes down to horseshoes.
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I can hunt, and butcher game, and figure out how to tan the leather, and one of my hobbies is leather working, so at least I could have clothes and shoes.
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I let you hunt. However, I can help you with butchery and I learned how to poach when I was young. I still have memories of that. So we could complementary.
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How about doctors? Chemists? I can see the local hospital being guarded by the local government's troops, not just because of the drugs, but to protect the skilled personnel. There's an adventure idea- having to kidnap the local physician for an operation. Or being guards for a Doc as he makes his rounds.
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Just forget about them and look for the priest or the other local weirdo.
Health taker might be intersting to.
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Any other valuable skills?
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Plantlore: a friend of mine can feed you simply by walking the mountain range and picking plants (I have asked her to teach me). However, this is a local knowledge.
Mushroom lore
Sewing (Yes! I got my wife
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I'm good with wood working (for housecare) but I'm living in a stone house and with that I'm bad, very bad. Need a stone carver.
A plumber can be intersting too and knowing how to make and care for a roof.
You also need someone who knows how to work metal and a glass maker can be useful.
If you don't have the glass maker you need to have some means to carry stuff around: a potter may be or a barrel maker may be.
Something important and widely forgotten is someone capable of caring for your knives and metal tools (don't know the name: someone who knows how to make it sharp without reducing it to the size of a small nail
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I stop here I have to pick up my kids but the list is going to be long, very long.
