How do you prime?

[Marshhawk]

I wipe the pan, flint and frizzen after each shot. (I'm in no hurry). I use the small brass plunger type pan primer I bought along with the rifle kit back in the early '80s. Small lock on the .45. I prime with 4f. Works for me.

 

[wattlebuster]

Hunting i use these.

 

[Tom A Hawk]

For hunting I've been using a small plunger flask that I can hang from the horn strap. Either 4F or null B.

 

[2 shots]

2 shots and a beer

 

[BaldHog1951]

I use the doohickey. I responded just so I could use the word doohickey. View attachment 308467

Did you make your bag? I like the style.

 

[SciAggie]

Did you make your bag? I like the style.

Thanks. I wish I was that talented. This was done by Bill Smith. It is hand made and hand stitched. It’s his Virginia style bag.
https://billsmithblackpowder.com/virginia/

 

[Bobby MacAlphin]

Load and prime with fffg from same horn always !

 

[sturmkatze]

It's in March 2024. "Black powder part IV, accidental ignition in personal use".

Thank you God sir! Good article. I certainly use the brass doohickeys. I tend to have one on a lanyard but will have to rethink that. Certainly, I want to clean the mechanism more often.

 

[VAN]

I most often use a brass tube with a spring-loaded tip that I made to be longer than the ones available from the usual sources. The other one here I made from an old horn tip handle I found for $3 at a junk shop because it matches my powder horn color and markings.

 

[Pratt]

I use a homemade flat priming horn.

 

[oldwood]

Since we seem to have less humidity up north , I have used a dohickey installed on a goat horn. Main reason I like it is with a horn , I pour powder all over the gun , and it ruins the moisture proof tightness of the pan frizzen fit. I'm also the guy that accidentally pours gasoline all over the lawnmower trying to get some in the tank.

 

[oldwood]

VAN.............Really like the small dohickey head priming horn of yours. I go to a horner's show , and look for the most misshapen small dwarfy , ugly bits of horn . To my jaded eye , these are prize flint primers begging for a dohickey tip on them.

 

[SOLANCO]

Always 4f but how depends. In the field a small primer member Two Feathers made from an antler tine. At the range a priming horn or flask.

 

[BaldHog1951]

Thanks. I wish I was that talented. This was done by Bill Smith. It is hand made and hand stitched. It’s his Virginia style bag.
https://billsmithblackpowder.com/virginia/

Thanks.

 

[James Dietz]

I load and prime from the horn. FF.

 

[hanshi]

I'll use one of four small tools and 4F for priming. I have used 3F and used it with complete satisfaction although it doesn't work in any of the tools.

 

[Jim K]

You guys would ban me if I showed you what I hunt and do woods walks with. My dad got me using it years ago.

 

[smokepolehall]

I use the small brass pan primer. My Scout has a very small shallow pan

 

[WonkyEye]

I have a few of those brass primer doohickeys but they get stuck due to the humidity so I don't use them much any more. After reading the recent article in Muzzleblasts about those accidentally exploding I think I'll take the suggestion and use a little plastic bottle with a flip open spout. I just need to find one.
Priming while using paper cartridges is the best. Bite the end off, put some in the pan and pour the rest down the barrel. Works great when shooting the smoothbore anyhow.

I've been using a brass dohickey too. I don't smoke but it never occurred to me that dust on the nozzle could pick up a spark. I've been frustrated with it anyway, it tends to get junked up

 

[WonkyEye]

From your main horn or flask (yes, I know that is dangerous)?

Is it? I've heard of an ember cooking off a charge as it's being poured down the muzzle, and heard caution about charging directly from a horn, but I've never heard of a horn exploding while priming.