How do you carry your primer flask......

[Flinty Scot]

I keep pick, brush, and primer tethered to my bag strap, but long enough to tuck under the bag flap to keep the jingle/twig grab down. Sturdy leather & chain tethers; I lost a fine pick & brush kit on a woods walk when a link failed on a "pretty" chain.

I always have a back up pick and a thin combo turnscrew, pick, & flint tool, tucked in a small-tight- pouch on the front of my bag, along w/ spare flints & a leather.. I keep a small, thin diamond sharpening plate in a matching pocket, on the back. to touch up my neck path knife.

A roll of pre-greased patching, a small flask of alcohol, a braided linen cleaning cord and wad of tow, & a piece of soft leather to wipe the flint (a
& cut a new flint leather if needed.

Still a bit of room, so I carry whatever high energy ration fits the season. I favor a sort of whiteeye's pemmican flavored w/ maple.

 

[LongWalker]

No priming horn or flask. Vent pick and powder measure tied to the bag strap on tarred line, long enough to drop under the flap of the hunting bag. Strip of patching tied to the bag strap. Small buckskin bag of balls (and usually a few rolling loose) in the hunting bag. Folding knife in the hunting bag. Couple spare flints and a spare leather for same loose in the bag.

 

[Twisted_1in66]

I keep my priming horn inside my regular powder horn. I use 3F in the main charge and prime with 3f also. So I see no need to carry a second horn for my 3F priming powder. I'm already carrying around enough stuff without adding another smaller horn.

Yes 4f does burn faster but you have to use high speed scientific equipment to see it and "personally" I did not experience any difference when I used it many years ago as a friend was trying to convince me I should buy a pound of 4F.

I have done a very large number of reenactments since 2002 or 3. Usually the cartridges we use are 2F powder or the reenactment powder which is a mix of sizes. As long as I do my part, I never have any trouble with any of it. When I lived in Vermont, we used canon powder which we bought in bulk and then put into cans. It was 3F in size but without the graphite (the "g" in FFFg), so it absorbed moisture more readily. When I moved to VA in 2005 we used 2F for muskets and rifle company both. Kept a sharp flint generating decent sparks and never had the "whooosh...Bang!" so common in movies.

I do have to say that the L&R Queen Anne Lock on my Early Lancaster rifle is not picky. It will work with just about any level of black powder unlike the Traditions rifle I used before it. Tradition's small lock worked best when half-full and banked against the outer edge. Overfill it and it may not even go off or at best give the hated fuse-effect.