Hunting Bags 'n Powder Horns

[Maestro]

Nice rigs, you guys!

Ron... who made the bag with all the squirrels around it? (Looks a lot like one of Jack Hubbard's "early uglies") and what's that inscription on the last horn? (all I can make out is 1776)

 

[wayne1967]

Here's my latest horn. Wish I had a nicer strap for the bag.

 

[Ron LaClair]

Ron... who made the bag with all the squirrels around it? (Looks a lot like one of Jack Hubbard's "early uglies") and what's that inscription on the last horn? (all I can make out is 1776)

Yep, it's one of Jacks early uglies.

Here's a close up of the horn

 

[colmoultrie]

Hmmm, mine'll have to be separate, as I don't have pics of pouch and horn together, except on my person.

Here's the bag, with my smoothy:

And here's my horn, with my rifle. I made both bag and horn - which explains the mistakes...

 

[BillinOregon]

Colmoultrie: I just love your horn! What mistakes? By the way, that is a very handsome rifle it goes with. Any chance of seeing more of it, with details on maker, caliber, etc.?

 

[jethro224]

Here's a set I made last year.

 

[colmoultrie]

The biggest mistake on the horn was in choosing that one to carve, although it came out fine. There are better horns out there. The strap is also a bit like a '60's guitar strap.

The bag is chrome tanned leather, not vegetable tan, and I didn't put a welt on the knife sheath on back.

As to the rifle, I've posted before, but I'm proud of it. It's an Allen Martin Bucks County rifle, .50 cal, w/ a 42" swamped barrel.

Here are a few pics again; sorry for those who weren't interested the first time or so... :grin:

 

[jbwilliams3]

You have good reason to be proud of that rifle. I could look at it all day. How does she shoot?

 

[colmoultrie]

If, no, when I miss :grin:, it's certainly not the rifle's fault! I've settled on a load of 70 gr. of FFg, ballistol-lubed pillow ticking, and a .490 roundball. At 50 yards offhand, I can get two shots touching, and then I blow the third shot, of course, and the group opens up, but that's me, not the rifle.

 

[rkmeyer]

Lonehunter, what kinda wood is that your stuff is hangin on. :idunno:
Never seen wood like that and could think of lots a uses fer it. :hmm:
Dusty :wink: