POWDER IN YOUR HORN

[WAR EAGLE]

I have been shooting bp for about 6 mo. now and i have a really silly question. HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU GET POWDER IN YOUR HORN??? That litle hole in the small end is barely big enough to see let alone try and poke powder in. I fight it all the time and always get more on the ground than in the horn. HELP.

 

[Halftail]

War Eagle,
You could be like my Father in law and take an Axe and beat the Bejeepers out of it untill it was just a fine dust than buy another with a bigger hole. :wink:
Or you could go to the Grocery store and buy the smallest Funnell you can find and use that or make on out of Birch Bark if you want to be more PC(Whatever that means).
Is it the regular kinda horn with a wooden plug in the end?

 

[Stumpkiller]

Yep. L.B.F. Leetle Beety Funnel. Or, you can tear a small piece out of the corner of an envelope and use that as a disposable funnel. Or roll a paper tube. Or saw the base off a .223 Rem case (or any case that fits in your horn snout) and silver solder a metal cone on that. All sorts of solutions.

About anything you can use to get powder in a centerfire rifle case will work to fill a horn.

I have a brass tube soldered on a GOEX can cap and I just screw that on the can and pour it into the horn. Simple. I have a 7.62 x 54R case trimmed down that is a friction fit over that so I just leave the pour can on the open can in my powder horde.

 

[WAR EAGLE]

Thanks for the ouick replies. I shoot cowboy action with a .45 maybe i could use one of my old cases and attach it to my can lid! I put one of those brass spring loaded dodads on my horn and use a powder measure to load from. That part works great.

 

[Halftail]

Duhhh,
Me so stupid Stumpy,
I got one of them 243 cases soldered onto a Goex Lid that what I fill my horn with.Sometimes I got too much silly stuff going on upstairs to think on a serious answer. :v

 

[Trench]

I use a small brass funnel. I found it at the Possible Shop online.

 

[Black Hand]

A soft plastic funnel that fits around the outside of your spout will get more powder in faster. For traditional applications, I use a small copper funnel that I made and it lives in my shooting bag.

 

[LFC]

I have a brass tube soldered on a GOEX can cap....

By the way, it's good to unscrew the can cap from the gunpowder can before soldering. :grin:

 

You can make a makeshift funnel out of paper, or you can take a spent cartridge and solder it to a can lid with a hole in the can lid. I made one like that about 30 years ago and it is still working for me.

 

[user 2647]

I just wrap my hand arond the horn and use my index finger and thumb as a funnel, simple but it has worked for me the last 30 years.

 

[paulvallandigham]

War Eagle: Don't hesitate to open that hole in the horn a bit with the next sized drill bit. Just don't get to rambunctious, or you will drill through a side, and have too many holes in that horn!

Seriously, use a funnel. The biggest problem will be finding a way to let air out of the horn as the powder pouring into that opening is replacing the air. It takes time to fill horns, unless the base plug has a screw out large hole so that the horn can be loaded from the other end.

 

[Bountyhunter]

The big end of my horn has a plug that comes out and leaves a half inch hole for fillin. When the plug is in it forms an acorn that the strap attaches to.

 

[jtmattison]

Next time you go to the doctor ask him/her for a couple of those thingies they put on their scope to look in your ear. They are perfect little funnels for such a job.

Does your horn have a plug in the base plug? I too tried to fill my horn from the pour hole until I figured out the plug unscrewed from the base plug.

HD

 

[playfarmers]

"You could be like my Father in law and take an Axe and beat the Bejeepers out of it untill it was just a fine dust than buy another with a bigger hole."

You made my day, I laughed so hard. I can actually visualize it.

 

[Halftail]

"You could be like my Father in law and take an Axe and beat the Bejeepers out of it untill it was just a fine dust than buy another with a bigger hole."

You made my day, I laughed so hard. I can actually visualize it.

Ahhhh it seems everyone's got good "Inlaws" stories.I have been working with my father in law for 24 years now.I could tell ya stories till the sun Came up in 3 days time.He's quite a charecter. :hmm:

 

[T.C.Albert]

A decent and pc funnel can be made from the tip of a small cows horn that has had a piece of goose quill set into it with glue or pitch...that type works at[url] home...in[/url] the field, a leather disc with a small hole in the middle can be cupped in your fingers by making the O.K. sign around it as the hole held over the spout hole of the horn being filled, and the powder carefully transfered.This type of leather "funnel" has sometimes been found still attached to the straps of old hunting bags.
T.Albert

 

[Ridge]

I fold a piece of paper in half and use that to funnel into the horn. Another piece under my horn catches any spills...

 

[soggy]

I have been shooting bp for about 6 mo. now and i have a really silly question. HOW IN THE WORLD DO YOU GET POWDER IN YOUR HORN??? That litle hole in the small end is barely big enough to see let alone try and poke powder in. I fight it all the time and always get more on the ground than in the horn. HELP.

This is what I use. Soldered these rifle cases to the top of a goex can. The one on the left is .243 cal, the other is .223. Either one works well

 

[omarick1948]

Ask Santa for one of those neat little brass horn funnels from TOW!...I just like to use my fingers around the spout as mentioned earlier and pour directly into my horns!..Woiks for me! :thumbsup:

 

[roundball]

I too tried to fill my horn from the pour hole until I figured out the plug unscrewed from the base plug.

:rotf: