horn attachment?

[hoochiepapa]

I'm just finishing up a bag I've had for about a year, what is the best way to attach the horn? I have seen pics where it's hanging, but I haven't been able to see how long the strips are. I know, enough so you can pour from it. :grin:
Or is it best to have a separate strap for the horn and hang it from the other shoulder?
HOw do you guys do it?

 

[matt denison]

Hanging your horn from the bag restricts you to THAT horn. If you only have one gun you only need one horn. If you anticipate shooting more than one gun with the same bag you might consider putting your horn on a separate strap. Then you can mix and match horns, bags, guns.

 

[hoochiepapa]

I intend on having a bag for each gun. This one will go with my late lancaster that I'm converting to flint. Just seemed fair to give it new accouterments.

 

[BillinOregon]

Mike: One of the other guys will probably pipe up, but I do believe your choice of attachment will "date" your outfit. Seems I have read that have a horn attached to the bag strap is a very late 18th or early 19th-century development. So if you want to go early, your horn should be on a separate strap. Laffindog also makes a good point about horn flexibility.

 

[hoochiepapa]

Thanks, Bill! I was kinda leaning that direction anyway.

 

[SgtSchutzen]

This is a small horn that I hang from my bag strap when I`m hunting. I`m not concerned with being P/C and for me it`s easier to have my horn attached rather than on a seperate strap. How it works is the "tabs" on the thongs go thru button holes in my bag strap. They are positioned so the horn rides just below the pouch flap. This gives me plenty of room to use the horn but doesn`t interfere with access to the pouch. This way you can also use the horn with more than one pouch if you want, and it disconnects easy for refilling or using like a flask if your shooting from a bench or something.

 

[tg]

I have used both metdods and come to like the seperate horn/stap over the horn attatched to the bag, this allows me to put the horn inside my sholder bag/snapsack if need be in really heavy cover or rain and give more flexability as to being able to position the horn to load and prime, I keep the horn fairly high, so it does not flop around a lot, lots of horn movement may mean one is moving to fast for still hunting anyway :hmm: a person about has to try it and see under hunting conditions to see what one like the best and then there is the time frame of each usage to consider if that is of importance, I try for 1760-70 so the seperate strap is best for me, I use one of a pair of wool leg ties for my horn strap, I some how lost one so I made use of the remaining one.Try a hike in the woods shooting and loading both ways, often there are many things that a test at the practice range does not tell one much as to practibility or preference, good luck and have fun.

 

[hoochiepapa]

Yeah, I like that idea too, I also don't care about hc/pc, and I get tired of the bag and horn moving to my front as I'm hiking. I don't care how slow I move, they both seem to work their way around. But the problem with your idea is, all the weight is on one side, and that can be annoying on a long day.

 

[S.Kenton]

Cool idea!.. I may do that one myself!

 

[MSW]

for what it's worth, i put a horn with each bag, although i had originally intended to move my first horn from bag to bag. then i made more horns, and then i made more bags, and now i have (more or less) a bag and a horn for each of my zillion guns.

i wasn't aware of the HC/PC issue. since i'm not really concerned about being HC, it isn't a big deal to me, but if that's a concern, i suppose you wouldn't want to restrict yourself.

as far as the weight goes, i haven't really noticed it, but that's just me.

one guy's free opinion, and no doubt worth twice the price!

 

[SgtSchutzen]

I know what ya mean about makeing more horns and bags :grin:. I have 3 rifles and 3 bags and horns. I like the little black one I posted the best though, and usually use that one for walkin around or hunting. It`s smaller than my other two but still holds plenty of powder for a days worth of hunting or plinking. Thats why I settled on the "detachable" way of using it. My other horns are on separate straps, but for being mobile having my horn and bag as one unit seems to work best for me.

 

[omarick1948]

I have always liked carrying my horns on a cord or strap independently from the shooting bag. __ I don't carry a priming horn, as I prime from my main horn. Powder horns attached to shooting bags look good in the movies and a fine picture when hanging on the cabin wall, but seem to get in the way to often and God knows, we seem to like to hang a bunch of extra things tangling on us with black powder shooting! I was told by an old boy years ago, that if my pouch seemed to heavy...maybe your carrying to much stuff! Another valuable tip from the same guy, was to sew on a big belt loop on the backside of my hunting pouch to run my belt through it, so it doesn't flop around while hunting! ....... Works for me!

Rick

 

[Supercracker]

I have a small-medium flat horn hanging on my bag. Whenever I need to do something in the bag I just drop it behind the bag for a minute. If I'm going through brush or something I pull the flap up over the horn and stick it in the bag until I"m through.

I find it quite handy. One less thing to keep up with.

 

[hoochiepapa]

That's right! I remember reading that here. Thanks.