horn carry

how do you carry your horn right side for left hand left side for right hand or attached to the bag or right hand for right hand or so on and on just curious it was a question i was ask and really had no good answer or is it a personal choice?

I am right handed so I carry horn and bag on right side. Also I carry it on different strap from bag.

am right handed and carry on right hanging just below my bag ,but attached to the bag staps

I'm right handed but carry my horn on the left side. My horn also is curved to fit on my left side. I hang it from a leather strap. It just feel better to pour with my left and hold the measure with my right.

I'm right handed. Shoot right handed and want a consistent point on my shoulder for my gun to come to rest. So I carry my horn and bag to hang on the right side. Remember we're usually only in the field for a few hours, maybe all day, sometimes maybe a weekend. We don't need bags so big you can put your life in it and carry a pound of powder.

Sorry for the rant :surrender:

no rant just good info and thanks :thumbsup:

Here's a couple previous discussions about horn and bag carrying.
[url] http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/208455[/url]
[url] http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/36303[/url]

I am right handed & carry on the right. Horn is attached to the bag with short straps.

I'm with you Hacksaw, right handed but carry on the left.
Scott

Add me as another RH with a left side carry. Like hacksaw, I have better control with pouring powder into a measure held in my right hand. As a side note, this is a tad safer carry for flintlocks, as it lessens the chance of a spark falling to your horn. Of course however, you should always have the plug in your horn when shooting.

I used to carry mine on the left for all the same reasons Wick said. I am right handed. It seemed natural...but, influenced by the writings of Mark Baker in more recent times, I switched to high right side carry...I personally think it is just personal preference--you can get used to anything. It is a little more handy to have the bag and horn on the same side [I used to carry everything on the left--to get it out of the way of the gun butt in carry]. Old art seems to show both ways of carry...but I can see Mark's points, too, in the high right carry.

I have never given a thought to the possibility of a spark getting into my horn, as I always put the plug back in the horn after pouring out a powder charge, and before shooting it. I am a LH shooter, and I have always carried my horn on my Left Side. Same with the bag. I tried it the other way, and tried carrying the bag only on my Right side, Horn on the left, but It was just too inconvenient for me to use.

I'm with paulvallandigham. I shoot LH and everything on the left works for me.

I'm right handed. I carry my bag and horn on right side. The horn's strap is smoothe so it can slide on my shoulder as I rotate the horn fwd to use it and then back behind the bag when finished with it. My hard leather ball bag is carried on my left side tho. GW

right handed--carry bag and horn on left side--

Right handed. Horn on seperate strap and high on right, bag at elbow so I can hold 'em still with my arm when I need to duck under brush or jump over creeks . . . or run from skunks.

what kind of skunks? 2 legged or 4--- :hmm: :hmm: :hmm:

I'm left-handed. I carry my bag on the left, where I can reach in and find things by touch (sometimes..couldn't do that with my right hand)and i carry my horn on the right...I can hold it in my right hand to pour into a measuring device held in my left hand. Too, I'd rather have the horn on the off side from the lock's ignition.
Hank

I'd rather have the horn on the off side from the lock's ignition.

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Now think about that. With a right-hand lock when you shoot with the horn on your right side your body is between the lock and the horn and it is as far as possible from the pan. If it was on your left side it would be directly under the pan.



Look where the horn is in relation to the lock.

I'm right handed and carry the horn high on my left side under my arm. The bag is below it on a separate strap. That way I can mix and match depending on the rifle I'm carrying.