Anyone made a Wool bag??

[Problem Child]

I've been thinking about making a Wool Hunting/Shooting bag.I'm wanting Wool because it's quiet.Has anyone built a bag with Wool??

 

No but I'm interested in where this goes!

I've been thinking about using some wool milsurp blankets for rifle/pistol case lining. Among other things.

 

[Birdman]

wools not hard to use but it helps to have a tighter weave cloth around the seams. Biggest down side is if you hunt in a briar patch type area it snags on everythorn. A good leather bag worn high n tight in your arm pit is very quiet or at least I've never had a problem with excessive noise from one. Most everything that would scrape against it hits your arm first n deflects off so to speak.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Hardly of any correct period, but it works great.

 

[Problem Child]

Hardly of any correct period, but it works great.

Nice.....Did you make that one??

 

[BrownBear]

No pics, but I made one for a bud using his old Filson wool coat (olive drab color). IIRC dimensions were 8x8" with a 2" full length gusset and the flap a one-piece extension of the back panel. Per his instructions I added a leather pocket roughly 5x5" on the inside of the back flap. Out of curiosity and concern for seam strength, I went ahead and included leather welts. It actually turned out really cool with the dark brown (Tandy stoned oiled leather) welts against the olive. The 2" atrap was one I wove from olive and brown wool on a Inkel loom.

Overall I liked it well enough to want to build one myself, but haven't come across another coat in garage sales yet. That Filson wool is lots tougher and tighter than blanket wool, so I probably could have got away without the welts.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Yep. From buffalo plaid wool material from JoAnne's.

 

[LaBonte]

FWIW - there are plenty of documented period wool shot pouches - mostly made by Great Lakes tribes along with some other eastern tribes.
IIRC most are late 18th and early 19th Century bags most are highly decorated and are generally known as bandolier bags.

 

[Tony Logan]

I made a couple and really like them out of old italian army surplus blanket scraps. I even trimmed one with deer skin, just to fancy it up.

 

[BillinOregon]

Nice bag Stumpy. Glad to hear no Woolriches were harmed in the production of that piece o gear!
:rotf:

 

[Rifleman1776]

Yep. Made a couple things from scrap left over from a coat I had made. It is easy to work with and scrap is priced right. Made some belt pouches, tobbacco bags, etc. Flaps don't like to stay down so I use large pewter beavers for weight.

 

[gus13]

here's the one I made, used some scrap wool for the front with a one piece leather Back.