re: If you were transported to the 1700s do you have a relevant skill set?

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After I invented the revolver and the semiautomatic firearm, I'm pretty sure I'd be set.

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you’re in the era of the flintlock. Depending on when in the 1700s you’d be 25 to over 100 years before the firing pin type gun, and the cartridge. So you’d have some footwork to do before you could get there.

Sao might have the best idea yet. Memorize where in the US and Alaska that the big nuggets were found and beat everyone to them. Of course, I know nothing about the mining laws in the 1700s. Maybe buy the land first, idk.

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I've been fascinated with gold recovery for 35+ years.

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I spent a summer chasing gold. It was both the most rewarding and frustrating thing you'll ever do.

All it takes is a little color in the pan and youre rejuvenated.

Trapping

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If you were transported to the 1700s do you have a relevant skill set

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Yea but I’d probably be burned at the stake for withcraft by using it

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spent a summer chasing gold. It was both the most rewarding and frustrating thing you'll ever do.

All it takes is a little color in the pan and youre rejuvenated.

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Way back, I read something about the Massie's... George and the GPAA. Perry and Tom were pretty young when he created the GPAA . Then Tom started his show Gold Fever on the Outdoor Network, which George and Perry helped pioneer. I believe Perry may still own or run the ON still today. I subscribe to umpteen gold YouTubers and love it. I've melted scrap for years here and there. The thing I really like doing in spare time is running a silver cell. Sreetips on YT is a great follow. Can grow pounds of silver with little to no effort.

Pretty sure they were still using English Doctrine in 1700. And they aint exactly going to be cool with a law license from 300 years in the future lol.

You probably better off teaching math.

Mercenary, pirate, or executioner

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I'm a lawyer....so, there's that.

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Our profession hasn't fundamentally changed, just a matter of learning local procedure and the limited amount of law for the time.


I imagine I could function fine as a furniture maker. While I am a hybrid woodworker there is nothing I can't do with hand tools alone from lumber to finish. Knowledge of the last 300 years of furniture design could be rather helpful.

I think the average well-educated person would have lots of useful information but turning it into a living might get one burned at the stake.

I can grow food, build wooden buildings, raise animals, catch fish and procreate.
I’m good.