Beautiful patch boxes. Thanks for sharing.OK....so I have built several rifles in the last few years and I never quite know what to do with a patch box. I have never kept patches in one. And I have never actually made two the same size. The size, at least for me, is determined by the aesthetics of the butt architecture and they just don't come out any sort of standard size. I haven't had the time lately to work on some of the more involved projects I have on the bench, but the other day I got the urge to make up some items for the patchbox on the copy of the Jim Chambers rifle I did a while back. The patch box on that rifle is one of the largest I have made and I thought I could fit one of my Gunner's Mates shooting tools in it...and I could. The only problem is that the tool won't fit in a .36 bore. So I re-machined a few critical parts to fit the bore. It won't assemble into the single tool any longer, but it fit easily in the patch box with a little tow and I made a little ticking bag for the ball puller and worm.
Well, I liked the way that turned out, so I wanted to put one of the complete tools in the box on the .58 caliber English rifle I made some time ago now. The only problem was that this rifle has one of the narrowest boxes I have made and the "T" handle for the tool would not fit. After a little thought, I cut away a notch on each side of the box and got the "T" handle to drop in. A little more tow and the body of the tool taken down into two pieces and it all fits fine.
This seemed to work out so well, I did the same thing to the copy of Jim Keebler's .54 caliber rifle that I built (the one with the sights made out of a meteor)....
And one more....a walnut stocked .50 caliber I made back in 2014....
With the tow in the box, none of this stuff rattles around. And I always have everything I need to service each rifle....without even looking...
What’s in Your Patchbox?
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Great pics. I don't have a patchbox on my Frontier's but seems like a good place for Skittles to me.
Rock Home Isle
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I have a patch box on my .50 calibre Pedersoli Alamo Rifle. Great gun, nice and light, it’s taken a lot of elk over the years. In the patch box are some precut lubed patches, a spare .490 RB, a small container of caps, and a spare nipple
Brokennock
Cannon
When I had a gun with one (would like to again someday) I kept a worm, ball puller, some faux-tow, and some cleaning patches in there.
Don't see much sense in putting shooting patches in there and having to go into both my shot pouch and the "patch box" to load. Being able to get a few items out of my shot pouch is a good thing though.
Don't see much sense in putting shooting patches in there and having to go into both my shot pouch and the "patch box" to load. Being able to get a few items out of my shot pouch is a good thing though.
Nothing, my guns don’t have any.
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I keep patches in there. On rare occasions if the powder in the pan gets wet and gooey, I want to wipe it out with a patch, keep it and let it dry. I add those dries powder soaked patches to my firestarting kit to help make a future fire with flint and steel.
Ohio Rusty ><>
Ohio Rusty ><>
Tow and copies of 18th Century tow worm and ball puller I got at a Revolutionary War reenactment 20-25 years ago.
I truly dislike patch boxes on my hunting rifles. There for I keep nothing in one if it happens to have one.
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In my one rifle that has an oval patch box I keep a small fire-starting kit within.
longcruise
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In my tc i keep an SD card with the TC manual on it. I'm PC all the way!
N.Y. Yankee
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Right now, just a cotton cloth to wipe the gun with, until I change my mind or find something else to put in there.
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Jag, patch puller, ball puller, spare flint, some patches
Rock Home Isle
58 Cal.
I want to borrow this gun right here…
Double barrels are a good place to hide 100's.
Banjoman
Hillbilly
The only two I have with patch boxes. I don’t care much for them, but it just seemed like there should be something in them. Might make them empty later.
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