Hunting WITH or WITHOUT jag installed??

[Mad Professor]

Jag installed.

If you're stalking and careless enough to catch your jag it tells you you need to practice your stalking.

If you use your barrel to push brush aside I'm hoping you're scaring stuff my way!

The jag will deform the ball/conical less if I need to load a 2nd shot quickly, a bare rod may contact the barrel and/or deform the projectile in doing so when it slips between barrel /"bullet".

If I need to use the jag it's already connected and won't fall in the snow/leaves/grass; in the woods I seldom need another "screw on" for my ramrod. The other side of my ramrod is also threaded if I need a patch and/or bullet puller.

Question, does the jag stick out farther than your front sight? Probably not, and that also will hook the brush just as well if not better!

 

[Dave K]

I have no need to have the jag attached while hunting. I make all my ramrods about 1/2" longer than the gun for easy grabbing and when I need a jag I screw it on. This than gives me about 2 to 2 1/2" of extra rod length and it works fine for me.My jag is left in my hunting pouch.

 

[rudy parnell]

[" strung across my left shoulder..my right shoulder, hanging along side in my right[url] hand..in[/url] my left hand..cradled in my arms with muzzle pointing left..cradled in my arms with the muzzle pointing right..across the back of my neck with one hand on the stock and one behind the muzzle and then do it all over again and again as I get tired with each way. I hunt public land and have to walk a long ways to hunt.]" ... I carry my gun by the barrel and draped over my shoulder...gripped about a foot behind the muzzle....I got it griped with my strong hand. Then, I carry it over my left shoulder and grip with my weak hand. I have to keep shifting it back and forth cause it tires me out and causes pain. When I go to cross a creek or climb up a ditch bank...I carry it in my strong hand out in front of me...If there is a strong sappling I'll grab it for support." You got to test them little sapplings and limbs before you put your weight on them...specially me...at just over 200lbs." On real treacherous terrain, I end up crawling alot...I push the gun out in front of me with my strong hand and always control the muzzle. I keep a leather hammer stall engaged when I'm on the move and I hunt alone. Oh, don't wear no slippery gloves or shoes to surprize me neither. Well about this gaget,[jag installed]...mine's in my pocket! But can't see it making a difference as long as you don't get conflict with the outgoing shot charge. My rod don't accept a fitted tool on the outgoing end." Wonder if people learned that over the years?" :winking:

 

Ditto, I've always left my jag on the end of my rod. It only sticks out an additional 1.5 inches beyond the muzzle. Never had a problem yet.

 

[CG6018]

I keep the jag attached to the ramrod. I carried it in the brass patchbox on my .45 cal., and in the sliding wooden patchbox on my .54 cal. and it seemed that every trip to Dixon's, I was purchasing a new jag! I must have lost half a dozen over the years because the patchbox came open on its own or I dropped the jag getting it out of the patchbox. So now it stays on the ramrod. After a shot, it gets a bit discolored, and once in a while a leaf or two get themselves wedged between the rod and the forestock, but I consider it camoflage and continue hunting. :thumbsup:

 

There you have it brother!!

 

[Elkinde]

Yes......Always have.