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  1. jon math

    Sky Chief Tin

    I love Sky Chief's load, the only problem is it can be a bit messy when loading from the pouch. I made up a small tin, that started out as a spice container from the craft store. I fire-blued it, put a little artwork on the lid to match a Trade shotgun I have and sealed it in a coat of Truoil...
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    Belly Box

    I made this for a 12 Gauge Fowler. I had a hunk of wood that I thought was big enough, but I ran out of room quickly when I started drilling holes for the rounds. It still yielded a decent number of ready rounds, and I'll carry a pouch and horn too. I may paint the block black, as was...
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    Different Treatment to a Powder Measure

    I enjoy wood turning and making pens is a hobby of mine. I treated this powder measure like a pen project. I bored a wood block the same size as the measure's body and turned the block into a wood sleeve, just as one does in making a pen. I'm not sure if I like the final result. It is just...
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    Turned Antler Pan Brush

    My first attempt at turning antler and a black powder pan brush. The antler was from a whitetail and finding a piece straight enough to turn round and not be into the soft center was a challenge. I'd say you need a honking big antler if you wanted to do anything large, or an antler from a...
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    Southern Shot Measure

    Jim Webb mentions brass, steel and copper tubes plugged with wood being used as powder and shot measures for mountain shotguns, basically military muskets with the rifling shot out and usually cut down to a shorter length. His examples are cut straight across and the plugs just whittled chunks...
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    Odd Patch Knife

    Jim Webb mentions this knife in his book on Southern Mountain Pouches. I'd say Jim was a master of the understatement! I include the illustration of the knife. Jim believed it was turned on a lathe, I'm inclined to believe it was but with a bit of whittling added too. I love odd things so I...
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    Turkey Calls

    I know the wing bone call is an old call, the trumpet I'm not really sure when they came to be. They work the same, although the trumpet is more durable. The Trumpet was made on my lathe, the wing was made of bones collected from a successful hunt a few years ago. The wing also was made from...
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    Adjustable Shotgun Shot Measure

    Just a new handle added to a factory made measure. The original is in the photo, it was a poor fit and did not have much color to it. I could have stained it and reattached it, but turning a new one was more fun.
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    Saving an Old Horn

    I have had this horn forever. It had several cracks, an ill-fitting plug, no fill spout plug, and some holes at the base when I got it off a yardsale table. I fixed the plug and tried to seal the holes to make the horn airtight, but the damage was pretty bad and the horn was a little brittle. I...
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    Couple of Knives

    A pair of Plains Native like reproductions. Both are modern butcher knives cut down, rescaled, and artificially aged. The rawhide was taken from a dog's chew toy and stained and aged with shoe/leather dyes. I tore the rawhide while installing it so I simply sutured the hole with a bit of sinew...
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    Carpet Bag Pouch

    I wanted a small bag for the spring turkey season. I like souther mountain inspired pouches so I spun up a small hunting pouch based on a similar size and shaped one in Jim Webb's fine book on southern mountain pouches. I picked a material that has a lot of greens and browns and looked to me...
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    Game Bag Experiment

    I cobbled this together from material I salvaged from an old mesh bag. Might have been a laundry bag originally, but I'm not sure. I've hunted for a lace tablecloth that has a large section of plain netting or a fishing net etc, but never could so I went with this for now - if a better net...
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    Flint Wallet

    I've wondered if these existed in the 1700's. I usually just wrap a flint or two in a strip of patching material and toss it in my bag, but I had some left over leather so I figured what the heck. I made the little screwdriver years ago from a broken modern one. Not traditional but it fits the...
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    Shot Dippers

    Brass from shells, wood turned on my lathe, brass rod from hobby shop.
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    Three Shot Pouches

    I'm very new to leather work, these being my 2nd, 3rd and 4th attempts at the art. The first bag answers the never asked question: "Where do Carharts go to die?" The body of this pouch is made from the leg of an old pair of well-used Carharts. I made the flap with a double layer of...
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    Southern Mountain Pouch

    Homespun after the Civil War, to go with my "mountain shotgun" ie a shot out Enfield as described in a book on southern pouches. I made the bag from cloth dyed to a butternut uniform color to make it appear the cloth was salvaged from an old uniform. The strap is from a reproduction canteen...
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    Lyman Style Pouch

    I'm brand new to leatherwork, this is my first project. I have always liked the Lyman belt pouch and my flint smoothbore fowler is from that era so it seemed like a nice choice. This pouch has the same 5" x 7" dimensions and the internal divider/welt, however, it differs in that it is plain...
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    Old Calls and Floats

    A few hunting accessories I've made over the years. A beaver caster bait container, a turkey wind bone call and a turkey wing call.
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    Shot Container

    Based on Jim Webb's Southern Mountain Pouches book. It's a pretty heavy-walled bottle, but it still needs TLC. The measure is a copper "stub-out" trimmed to length with a brass screw eye soldered in the end.
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    Adjustable Shot Measure

    I turned this on my lathe. I wanted something that looked homespun and salvaged from some broken piece of gear. I turned the barrel to resemble part of an old duck call, and made the plunger out of different wood, and left it cleaner than the barrel.
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