Powder horn by my hand

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I bored the other day and tried my hand at making a horn, it's far from perfect, but I feel it would make a nice simple day horn.

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I bored the other day and tried my hand at making a horn, it's far from perfect, but I feel it would make a nice simple day horn.

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well, that’s really nice work. I wish my first horn looked half that nice.

 

[JeffG]

Nice work!!

 

[Tanglefoot]

My first powder horn is/was very old when I found it in the wreckage of an abandoned farm house, wedged in a crack in some stairs. I was about 14 or 15 at the time, I believe. It's a flat pocket horn with a carved spout and a dark wooden base plug secured with iron nails. The spout plug was missing and there was some powder caked in the horn, so I dumped a bunch of BB's in there and shook it until all the powder residue came out. Whittled a spout plug for it and been using it ever since. I can't tell you how long they last, but this one's doing fine so far. Of course I've only had it for 60 years or so and I've got no idea how long it was stuck in that crack. The house it was found in was probably 100 years old.

 

[Tanglefoot]

Just for reference, the first powder horn I ever built was made from an old black cow horn, with a pine base plug. It was cheap, crude, and nowhere as well finished as yours, Tennessee. Mine was uglier though. Still is.

 

[Flinty Scot]

I agree w/ Jaegermeister, it's a fine working hunter's horn. The color is great and the proportions work. I prefer day horns; more practical dfor most situations. Well suited to the simple, clean, but beautiful lines of a Southern rifle.

 

[toot]

KUDDOS, to you my friend. you Shure are doing something right, just keep it up!

 

[Chaney79]

Nothing wrong with that! Nice work