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Bunny and/or Grouse Hunt in a Can

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No, not a canned hunt. :nono:

Years ago I saw a small but very curved horn that had a half-circular ball bag that nestled in the curve for a very small "just a hunt" outfit. I wanted to apply the same concept to my 12 bore percussion shotgun. As Thoreau said: "Simplify, simplify."



Here is a 2-1/2" x 3-3/4" x 7/8" tin that contains all the fixins for nine shots - provided the flask and shot snake are worn/drug along. I figure to carry this in the pocket of my hunting jacket and "travel light(er)" this fall.

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The tin (an Altoids mint tin with the paint torched off & rubbed with motor oil) holds 9 cushion wads (lightly rolled in a lube of equal parts Crisco, beeswax & mutton tallow), 11 over-powder wads (leaving me two extra to wipe the bore with using the wad puller it the fouling gets rough), 14 over shot cards, a 5/16-27 threaded wad puller, corked tube with 14 percussion caps (a 7.62 X 54R case with the rim ground off and the neck sawn back), a spare nipple and nipple pick (made from a small paper clip) and a custom collapsable nipple wrench/screwdriver (a 125 grain glue-on blunt tip for a tapered arrow with a slot hacksawed into the tip, a hole for a "bobbed" 5/32" allen wrench; and the tip of the wrench ground into a hollow-ground screwdriver with a Mizzy wheel in a Dremel and then cold blued - kind of proud of that one).

The dividers currently are blue manila folder cardboard and, if I like this arrangement, I will make the final version out of thin sheet brass shim stock.
 
That's a slick and handy system. I've been cobbling together something similar for my rifle, but mine isn't nearly as well thought out.
 
I like it!

I use a similar approach with my 32 and 36 cal rifles, but a small drawstring bag instead of the can. Plenty of balls for a long day of snowshoe hare hunting fits into a smaller bag within, made from the thumb of a pair of leather work gloves.

Trouble with all the larger bag, it's kind of a nuisance fishing around in it to find things. Your tin would hold it all, and a lot more conveniently. I like the idea of using the shim stock for dividers, too.

Well done!

And thanks for the idea. :hatsoff:
 
Ah, one more thing: there's a seperate brass powder measure on a lanyard that will eventually be attached to the shot snake (so it won't clank against the flask). I haven't got the load figured out yet - will be 70 to 80 grains FFg depending what patterns best.
 
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