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<blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 4212243" data-attributes="member: 93">I'd say military.&nbsp; It takes training to know how to load a gun, which is the main hold up.&nbsp; Feats should make it easier to load faster or get accuracy.One of the characters in one of my favorite series of books, The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, tells a story of himself and several other vagabonds who are stopped while traversing India by a local warlord looking for conscripts (this is in the late 1690's or early 1700's) and administered what Jack Shaftoe refers to as &quot;the Intelligence Test&quot;.&nbsp; They handed each of them guns, trying to see who amongst them knew how to load and fire a musket.&nbsp; Two of the vagabonds are able to load and fire, and are press-ganged into the warlord's army.&nbsp; Jack and one of his buddies act like they don't know one end from the other, and are allowed to go on their way.&quot;So they passed the Intelligence Test?&quot; the fellow Jack is telling this story to asks, referring to the two conscripted vagabonds.&quot;I would say rather that they failed it,&quot; replies Jack.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kid Charlemagne, post: 4212243, member: 93"] I'd say military. It takes training to know how to load a gun, which is the main hold up. Feats should make it easier to load faster or get accuracy. One of the characters in one of my favorite series of books, [I]The Baroque Cycle[/I] by Neal Stephenson, tells a story of himself and several other vagabonds who are stopped while traversing India by a local warlord looking for conscripts (this is in the late 1690's or early 1700's) and administered what Jack Shaftoe refers to as "the Intelligence Test". They handed each of them guns, trying to see who amongst them knew how to load and fire a musket. Two of the vagabonds are able to load and fire, and are press-ganged into the warlord's army. Jack and one of his buddies act like they don't know one end from the other, and are allowed to go on their way. "So they passed the Intelligence Test?" the fellow Jack is telling this story to asks, referring to the two conscripted vagabonds. "I would say rather that they [I]failed[/I] it," replies Jack. [/QUOTE]

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