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    Once More Powder Horn

    Happy new year everybody. When I was on duty in Africa ( as MP ) some months ago I picked up several cows horns on the piles of bones of the local slaughterhause. I tested flattening one horn after putting it in boiling water. Not really a success. Perhaps the walls too thick or not the good...
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    New Flints

    Hello, happy new year everybody. Here, some pics of my new purchase. Not a rifle but flints :wink: Sometime, I shoot with a pennsylvania flint rifle from PEDERSOLI. A rifle whih can put fire in a water bucket since I made his frizzen hardened and since I bought these flints. Flints from the...
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    Powder Measure

    Hello everybody, with my first powder horn I tried to make a powder measure with an antler deer and tried some scrimshaw. I drilled the antler with my dremel and finished it with a file. I sand the exterior part with sand paper and carved the draw with my dremel then I filled it with ink...
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    My african powder horn

    Someone wrote on this forum that a horn must told a story. So let's go on.... Once upon a time, several months ago, I served in the french army as military policeman. It was somewhere in Africa. The country was quiet, war far away from my station, no political troubles, few french soldiers to...
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    My second and third powder horn

    After my first powder horn, a very simple one, I try some carving with buffalo horns, american buffalos from a french farm in PERIGORD county. The little powder horn is more a horn day than a primer horn. About the big powder horn, the plug is fitted with a filling stopper, a cork from a bottle...
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    Priming Horn

    My last horn, last week, was a priming horn. It was made of a very old little horn of a calf I found years ago in my father's barn. Some filing, polishing with sandpaper and a dremmel with felt buffer. I cut the tip and drill it to glue in a priming valve from track of the wolf. The base plug...
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    My Armory

    Here a part of my armory. My Tryon rifle is in his case and my revolvers and pistol are in the safe.
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    My first powder horn

    Hello, not a great one but my first powder horn. I did it to try my handcraft skills. It was a very old cow horn I bought for half an euro in a flea market near my home town. Some rasping, filing, sandpaper, iron wool and lot of sweat. The stopper is the carved tip of the horn, the plug is a...
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    Hello From France

    Hello everybody, I am french so I apologize for my english language. I am fond of muzzle loading shooting for a long time. I am shooting revolvers, pistol and cap and flint rifles. But only in shooting range no hunting. I also try to make my own gears handcrafted specially powder horns. I gland...
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