Need a new shooting bag - Recommendations?

Looking for a new shooting bag. Would like to keep it a shoulder strap type. Leather, pocket or two inside. Big enough to hold my CVA Powder Flask, couple dozen balls, short starter (outside loop prefered) and a few implements to clean as necessary. Need to be able to carry enough stuff to shoot a couple dozen shots while chasing Jackrabbits. Now for the biggie - needs to be reasonably priced, $50-75 if possible. Suggestions?

Since you didn't mention that you want your bag to be historically correct or to be correct to the region you are from, for your budget I think that assembling a precut kit is what you'll want. Crazy Crow has a number of them http://www.crazycrow.com/mountain-man-suppliess/muzzleloading-kits

You might also want to spend a little more on a bag that is fully completed, but as with everything, you get what you pay for. https://www.logcabinshop.com/catalog.php?route=product/category&path=184_162_30

Good luck, I hope this helps with your search.

Just curious...But, which CVA powder flask?...They make(or made) several.

They do(or did) make a really small one that would fit in a shirt pocket (not that I would ever carry it there, safety first.) I have one and love it....But it is so small I'm always misplacing it... :haha:

Try reaching out to OhioRamm on the forum. I've got a bag that her company made that I'm in love with.

October Country makes some very nice bags. Use the link at the start of the reply to go to their website.

Their Crockett suede bag or the Freetrappers Bag are in your price range.

To add a bit to what I'm after......not really worried about being historically correct, my TC Hawken is not historically correct but kind of looks the part. I'd like the same from the bag. Mostly just want a functional well designed leather shooting bag.

My Flask is the round brass with pour spout. About 2" diameter and 6" long.

The medium shoot bag from October Country looks good. http://www.octobercountry.com/shooter-possible-bag/ Any thoughts on this one?

Why not make your own it really is not that difficult and there are loads of pics here and on the net for ideals. That way you can customize it the way you need. I make all my own accroutments and find it enjoyable it is a nice way to spend idle hours. R.C.

Greybear leather is my choice for well made and reasonably priced shooting pouches and haversacks. http://www.greybearleather.com/

My Flask is the round brass with pour spout.

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Hope you are not loading directly from the flask. :shocked2: Very dangerous. Get a powder measure, pour from flask into measure and then down the bore.

Flask has a cut off gate - So it fills a 60gr tube, cuts off the powder from rest of the supply with a brass cut off gate. I do believe that is what it's made for and how it was designed to be used....Still probably not the best setup come to think of it.

I have one of those flasks too--purchased from TOTW. I pour from flask into a brass powder measure, then from that into my barrel. Perfectly safe if you use it that way, in my opinion.

I also have a horn that I purchased from Cabelas. I haven't used that yet.

I'm considering making my own bag as well. The hand tools aren't terribly expensive, but the leather is pricey, particularly if you want to go with a leather strap and you want one long piece (instead of seaming multiple pieces together). To do that I think you need a "side" of leather, which is pricey. Still... I may do it anyway, as I have a nice piece of Axis buck hide from a hunt a while back, and I'd love to have that on the front flap! Plus the cool factor of making my own bag is attractive.

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Flask has a cut off gate - So it fills a 60gr tube, cuts off the powder from rest of the supply with a brass cut off gate. I do believe that is what it's made for and how it was designed to be used....Still probably not the best setup come to think of it.

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While the flasks have been used as a direct to load sort of measure, the cut off gate only stops the flow of powder to the measure. The gate doesn't stop heat from getting into the flask. With use, black powder fines accumulate around the spout and gate. Heat from an ember in the bore can set off that flask and your are holding a brass grenade.

The occurrence of such an explosion is very rare, but why take a chance since the safest practice is so simple. Pour the charge from flask to measure and then to the barrel.

Center_shot said:

Flask has a cut off gate - So it fills a 60gr tube, cuts off the powder from rest of the supply with a brass cut off gate. I do believe that is what it's made for and how it was designed to be used....Still probably not the best setup come to think of it.

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Still not safe to pour direct from flask to barrel. Use a separate measure to pour from . All flasks have a cutoff to stop more powder from coming out but they DO NOT with any reliability stop a flash from setting off the powder that is in the flask. Do what you want but please make sure no one else is around while you are pouring directly from your flask .

Eddie


PS : I have found any number of bags at yard sales and thrift stores . Lots of purses from the 60's- the early 80's that looked correct and worked perfectly well for real cheap .

Still not safe to pour direct from flask to barrel. Use a separate measure to pour from . All flasks have a cutoff to stop more powder from coming out but they DO NOT with any reliability stop a flash from setting off the powder that is in the flask AND FLASK BEING UPSIDE DOWN WHILE YOU DUMP< POWDER IS "RIGHT THERE". :shocked2: :td:

Buy a small one. Most of us start out with a bag just a tad bit smaller then Noah’s ark. Then we fill it with everything we think we could ever need if we expected to hike the Appalachian trail while living off the land.
You don’t need all that in your bag. Small tools can be collected and stored some place handy with out filling up your bag.
Catalogs are full of neat and wonderful stuff that’s mostly eye candy. Some are fun to have but you don’t need it in a bag.

PS : I have found any number of bags at yard sales and thrift stores . Lots of purses from the 60's- the early 80's that looked correct and worked perfectly well for real cheap . [/quote]

So long as they have been not been bedazzled then you will look like a sissy! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

I like a heart shaped bag. Keeps the tools at the bottom out of the way.

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Looking for a new shooting bag. Would like to keep it a shoulder strap type. Leather, pocket or two inside. Big enough to hold my CVA Powder Flask, couple dozen balls, short starter (outside loop prefered) and a few implements to clean as necessary. Need to be able to carry enough stuff to shoot a couple dozen shots while chasing Jackrabbits. Now for the biggie - needs to be reasonably priced, $50-75 if possible. Suggestions?

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Center_shot said:

Flask has a cut off gate - So it fills a 60gr tube, cuts off the powder from rest of the supply with a brass cut off gate. I do believe that is what it's made for and how it was designed to be used....Still probably not the best setup come to think of it.

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That is how it is and what it was made for IN COMBAT. Faster loading than the safe way. Generals didn't care if the occasional soldier blew his face and hands off if the rate of fire was fast.

And of much less import then flask blowing up is the consistency. Putting your finger on the spout can effect how full the tube isn’t little or a lot. And you can’t tell shot by shot. A change of a hundred fps can make difference on poa. Not a big deal in hunting at closer range, twenty five to fifty yards. It may make you undershoot beyond that.
On a battle line that’s of no import, todays use it can make a big difference.