whats your best and worst skill

what do you practice the most? what should you practice more?
i spend allot of time on food mushrooms and wild edibles this year i'll be growing a garden, i shrug off most other skills figuring my training in the military is/was sufficient, i am not worried about getting clean water or even building a shelter so i don't pay much attention to these(may be my down fall) fire skill until now i have ignored also as i always carry waterproof mathces and a zippo but i have dedicated 2008 to gaining profficiency in this skill.
some skills i have a ton of book knowledge but really no feild experience at all and most times i am okay with that i guess the trick is to keep my mouth shut giving advice to others here about what i have only read about but have not mastered. thats all i have to say on that.

I practice a lot on making weapons, cooking, and hunting. And most of the basic survival skills. But what I need to work on is identifying edibles in the woods better. I know how to identify most of things but I want to be 100 % shure. But I spend to much time hunting and making bows and setting traps.

I am most proficient at growing and foraging foods,and really suck at alternative methods of making fire,and at building shelter,and have never hunted animals,having always grown the animals I killed and ate,this year,I want to improve in the fire methods,making shelter,and would love to learn to hunt.
I also want to improve on the wild edibles,and add more wild medicines to my list of accomplishments.

I can get a fire going easy enough, I suck at hunting tho

i'm good at food, water and mediocore at firemaking in the damp. i'm a shelter ace in most conditions.

i could definitely brush up on navigation, on all fronts. it' unlikely to come up, but i'm not good at evasion. i would love to brush up on cordage.

I practice keeping my cool.

Take in all info in the environment that I'm in and proceed with caution, ready for the un-expected.

I choose this as my best skill.


Worst skill, edible plants.

I'm good at making sugar, picking berries, and hazelnuts, competent at harvesting wild rice and hunting, and a fair to poor fisherman (have to work at my patience). I do well at strike a light with flint and steel, and can make fire with sticks if I have to. I'm only fair at tracking and thinking like a deer, though I do keep working at it. I'm good at walking quiet in the woods.

I don't know that many edible plants, but the ones I do know are omnipresent, and I'll never starve in the woods.

I'm good at reading terrain and picking the best place to camp, I can paddle a canoe for eight hours a day without stopping and read a river - and have a fair sense of direction, though not as good as my brother.

I need to work on my edible plants.

I'm with FVR on taking my time to figure out what I need to do.
Bad at fire by friction.

I think you have to practice all your skills, however. It is like riding a bike. Once you learn you never forget but I don't want to be a wobbly rider when I most need to ride. In other words, if sheltering building is a strong suit and I don't practice it because I'm good at it, it will take me longer to build that shelter when I need it most and quickest. Like when it starts snowing and my ground cover is being covered up. Keep the saw sharp! Practice all your skills.

GOOD - Giving advice
BAD - Taking advice

Edible plants and poisonous plants are the two things I want to brush up on the most, I know a few would like to learn a lot more.

I'm good with hunting, tracking, shelter making, firemaking.

Edible plants and poisonous and medicinal plants are what I need practice on a lot, shelter and fire making are my best.

Fire Lighting in wet cold conditions.

I consider myself as Jack of All Trades as understood in the 1600s as stated in the article at this site: http://www.jobjournal.com/article_fu....asp?artid=157 I know all the basic skills of woodcraft learned over a period of 40 years and then some, but there is always the need to learn more. A person can never be a master of all things.

Best skill: conserving energy in an emergency situation (or any situation for that matter)

Worst skill: hunting buffalo

Buffalo? You do that some do you? On horse back or do you just walk up and knock the crap out of em?

Run'em down on foot and bulldog them bit**es to the ground... lol... ain't nutt'n but an overgrown heffer.

Man, they just stand there when you shoot at them, that's why they were so easily wiped out the first time around.

I run over them w/ my bulldozer. Once I hit them, they can't get up :D

Run 'em over twice and you got about a ton of ground meat, just have to cut away the big wrapper it comes in.