Powder Horn and other stuff

[Honkey]

Here is a powder horn I made.

HORN

Here is the short starter I made from a the antler bases of a road killed yearling moose.

Start 1

Start 2

Start 2


Here is my first attempt at 50 call loading blocks

Loading blocks

And here is a picture of my possibles bad I made slung over my rifle and snow shoes with my horn at a primitive biathlon event

BAG with other gear

I DID NOT make the snow shoes. All these were my first attempts and were made in the last 6 weeks.

I was reticent to post them here after seeing some of the other posts and the overwhelming quality of the crafts others are putting out.

I am I the middle of building a Lyman Great Plains rifle in .54. I have been taking a ton of pictures and I will put up a link on the gun builders bench when done.

I hope you like them.

BTW I could not seem to put up any images with a JPEG The only thing that worked was a URL link

this is what happens when I try a JPEG

any ideas on JPEGS???

THANKS,

Jamie

 

[vern faulkner]

All look good to me. Thank you for sharing.

Vern

 

[omarick1948]

I use photobucket.com and size my pictures to 640X480.

 

[gus13]

try

instead of typing out image that should work.

 

[Stumpkiller]

Nice gear! :thumbsup:


JPEGs end in the suffix .jpg

Your URLs do not. :idunno:

 

[MSW]

Nice looking gear!

 

[The New Guy]

loved the pics. Did you use a pistol shell casing in the short starter. if so, what cal? It looked great BTW.

 

[Honkey]

Good eye new guy!!

Yes it is a .40 caliber pistil cartridge.

I put it in the sizing die and crimped it just enough so it would be tight on the hickory dowel, then a few drops of gorilla glue and it won't be coming off any time soon.

 

[ryzman]

didnt get a chance to see your powder horn as the link did not work...

i just ordered two long horns and am going to give powder horn making a try even though i could have bought one completed for less money... lol

hows the weather up there in maine? the wife and I are thinking about moving up there if i can find work... what town you live in?

 

[Honkey]

The weather in the Northern part of the state is typically cold and snowy 5 months out of the year.

This year was a non winter. BUT normally we get over 200 inches of snow and fall starts in August and spring is not until May.

It is a nice state if you don't mind winter, and like the outdoors. Overall the economy is a bit depressed. There is not a ton of employment opportunities.

:grin: :v

Oh and here is a picture of the horn that should work

HORN

I live in a small town called Jackman. It is 14 miles from the Canadian border, 800 people with an economy based in tourism and the forestry industry.

This picture is for a few winters ago.

40 inch snowfall

that is the kind of snowfall you can wake up to :shocked2:

Nothing compared to out west in places like Colorado and Wyoming, but pretty impressive for the east coast.

 

[aquamanlr]

Great looking gear, it all looks to be well made.

LeeRoy

 

[ryzman]

wow you are out in the middle of nowhere huh... we were looking at lubec cause we wanted to be closer to the ocean...