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Military procedure was to have the ball and powder in a paper tube. Tear off bottom with your teeth, prim the pan and pour cartridge down the bore and ram ball home
Seventeenth century matchlock shooters often had a priming flask, but we know of no documentation of a separate priming horn of flask used in general after the flintlock age.
Shoot what’s in your horn, you won’t be disappointed
 
I use 4F for just casual shooting, but use 3F when hunting due to the fact 4F is unglazed and finer and turns to soup in wet humid conditions. 3f seems to hold up better in those conditions.
 
Military procedure was to have the ball and powder in a paper tube. Tear off bottom with your teeth, prim the pan and pour cartridge down the bore and ram ball home
Seventeenth century matchlock shooters often had a priming flask, but we know of no documentation of a separate priming horn of flask used in general after the flintlock age.
Shoot what’s in your horn, you won’t be disappointed
DeWitt Bailey documents some military usage of horns for priming. Mainly the more specialized troops.
 
Were those not cannon priming horns?
It seems that in at least one reference the writer, a Ranger company captain, actually calls it a priming-horn filled with pistol powder to reduce miss fires in action. Another simply states the horns held about a pound of powder. Bailey states and documents that light infantry at least some of the time used powder horns.
 
I use 3f in the pan as well as the main charge in my .32 caliber rifle.. In my large caliber guns and my smooth bore, I use 2f as the charge and 4f in the pan. In my experiences, I've not had good luck using 2fg as a priming charge. I guess I could use 3f in the pan of my larger bore guns, but I've got half a can of 4f, so I'm going to keep using until it's gone.
 

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