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.
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.
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.
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.
