Carrying Shot

[Sharp Shooter]

How do you all carry your shot in the field? How much do you take?



Thanks



Kirk

 

[Skychief]

I have a small bullet bag that a friend made for me. I suppose it carries enough shot for 20 bunnies, this time of the year! That is assuming no missed shots....BIG assumption.

It works for me as I am in no terrible hurry to reload.

 

[BrownBear]

I got the hardware and made myself a shot flask like this one.

With no guide for size I made mine about the size of my closed fist. That sucker holds close to 3 pounds of shot! Holy cow. At 1 1/4 oz per charge, that's 38 shots. I fill it halfway now and feel like I'm still overloaded.

I've tried lots of carry methods, ranging from individual charges in plastic film canisters to a drawstring bag with adjustable dipper, and more I can't remember right now.

The shot flask I've linked is absolutely the fastest and most convenient way I've tried. Long term I may build a shot snake and attach it to the strap on a bag something like this. That looks like it might be the most convenient of all. But my "snake" might better qualify as a night crawler.

In all my years hunting snowshoe hare, ptarmigan and ducks with a double 12, I don't remember ever taking 20 shots. And my best (or worst) day of duck hunting required 13 shots for a limit of 7. I'm thinking a pound of shot will be about right, and if I need more than that I'm either having too much fun or shooting so poorly I should just go home.

 

[Alberta Black]

I carry five pre-measured shot/powder charges in plastic film cannisters taped back to back.Not traditionalbut it works. I have never shot off all five in a days hunting rabbits.

I hunt with a T/C New Englander 12g single shot and you may wish to carry more if you are shooting a S/S.

I also carry some back up shot in a small plastic medicine bottle, enough for another five shots or so

 

[schmidt]

Because I´m a lazy man, I use homemade speedloaders made from 12gauge plastictubes. One end is closed by a wooden plug. Then i fill 70grain wanoPP, 4 soft cardboard wads, 1oz shot in a strong paper schotcup and close it with 2 cardboard wads.
Charging is verry simpel: Pull the plug and pour the powder in the muzzle, then set the tube centered on the muzzle and whack the rest whith a 12gauge starting wood into it. Push it down with the rod.
That´s all.

 

[Homesteader]

Double shot snake with Irish chargers for my SxS 12 ga. caplock. Usually one with #4 and one with #6.

Shot horn with a measure scoop in the plug for my 14 bore fowler if I'm just playing around and stump-shooting. Small single snake with a wooden plug if I'm hunting, or just some in a small bag. Sometimes I carry buckshot in a bag too, but that's usually just for stump shooting and experimenting.

 

[Dave K]

I use a shot flask as Brownbear does. I have tried everything as well and found for me, this worked the best. I get consistant shot dumps and with a little work you can taylor the spout to drop the exact amount of shot you want. I went to a hobby store and bought some brass tubing that was a snug fit to the inside of the spout. I then trimmed the length to fit between the 2 "gates" that are on the flask spout. The sleeve cannot fall out and I can adjust the flask to dump the amount of shot I want. I have several flasks that I have "tuned" to the guns I use them in, 7/8oz, 1oz, and 1 1/8oz. Since my most common shooting is on doves, I carry about 4lb. of 7 1/2's. Though if turkey hunting I only carry about 4 guick type of tubes to reload the 6's I use at 1 1/8oz.

 

[pmwest]

Pellet Packers

About 4 inches long, holds everything for one shot. Great for turkey hunting. I usually carry 2 or 3 extra in my pocket as reloads. Carry so much other stuff I try to minimize what I can. Will hold up to 150 gr of powder and 2 oz of shot. The center will hold just about any wad column up to a shot cup designed for a 3” shell.

 

[Stumpkiller]

I made a little leather pouch that holds one pound of shot - about 12 charges. Works very well in the field and snags less that my Irish headed shot sake. The plug is a hollowed antler tine and is also the measure.

 

[Richard McCullough]

I have a double shot snake that I use upland hunting, one side filled with #6 ITX shot the other with powder. and the wads go in the pouch provided it all holds about 20 shots.

For waterfowl, I have speed loaders usually carry 15 to 25 of them.

 

[hawk]

sharp shooter I made this up quick and it works fine holds a pound and a half no. 6 shot...I like stumpy's measure/stopper idea...

 

[BrownBear]

Long as we're showin and tellin, I loaded a couple of shots up to photobucket and attached them here.

If and when I make a smaller flask, I'm going to put only one grommet on it, and it will be at the end so I can hang it off a bag strap when I want.

The other contraption is my way of handling wads and cards, all leather with a brass button to close the flap. As you can see in the second, I keep my nicked cards in that little side pocket and the wads in the main pocket. It's about the size of a deck of cards, and half full it holds a couple of dozen 11 gauge wads. It could easily be half its present size, but I'm too clumsy for anything smaller.

 

[tg]

I use one similar to BrownBears only it is made fro rawhide formed with sand with a wood stopper, I pour into an antler measure which is poured to the top of the measure,the powder is poured to a mark below as needed by the particular, gun the measure has a thin side(oblongish opening at the top) to allow shot to roll into the bore easier.

 

[Gotspark]

Nice lookin pieces you guys have there. :hatsoff:

 

[chance]

All are great!!

 

[Hoyt]

When I'm hunting something that I may shoot a lot..like squirrel I put my shot in this flat horn I made.

Turkey hunting I make up a few quick loads.

 

[halem5]

Will be using this one for turkeys this year.

 

[Maestro]

I use shot pouches:

Like Stumpkiller's, they hold about 12 charges.

 

[Marc Adamchek]

I HATE all you talented guys who can sew leather, carve wood, antler, probably marble,too! Anyway, for those using one, which is a better charger - Irish or English? This all exempts Stumpy's absolutely cool drilled out antler that just happens to hold the exact amount of shot and hey! whaddya know, also serves as a stopper for the leather shot pouch he made - the coolest rig I've seen (without, of course, discussing the flattened horn and several leather shot bags made by guys whose names I've forgotten getting so worked up over Stumpy)

 

[Maestro]

I HATE all you talented guys who can sew leather, carve wood, antler, probably marble,too!...

Just for the record... don't include me in that! (My shot pouches were made by a friend of mine, Orville "Spark" Mumma.)