Priming horn

[IanH]

Here's a fun little project I finished recently. Horn is a from small black buck antelope a friend found in a pasture and gave to me, plug is a piece of well seasoned mesquite root burl, tip is a commercial part from TOW, horn tip drilled and tapped to accept the threads. Fits in a shirt pocket or just loose in the shooting pouch.

 

[necchi]

Nicely done,
Must have been a dickens getting a hole through it,,

 

[IanH]

Not too bad actually, its kind if like a cow horn at the tip, only had to drill about 3/4" to the cavity after bobbing the tip at the correct diameter for the spout. I drilled a small hole and checked where it came out with a flexible bore scope, got lucky and dead-centered it because the cavity was concentric to the outside of the horn.

 

[oldwood]

Have made a couple primer horns from domestic goat horns. They look unusual , and fun to make.

 

[IanH]

Cool, I'd like to see some photos of those if you have any and don't mind sharing.

 

[oldwood]

So sorry , those goat horn primers went with a couple builds , and shot pouches for guys. All I can tell ya is , there were two black ones , and one whitish brown one. All had 3 gr. plungers in the ends. Crazy Crow has some small flat cow horns in their catalog. I saw them off at about 4" length , and the open end , replug with curly maple , and the small end gets a 3 gr. plunger primer. Very serviceable , and take up little space in the shot pouch. Luck to ya.

 

[TDM]

Very nicely done, love it!

 

[BackDraft]

Really nice looking!