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Post by brokennock on Dec 8, 2019 14:22:07 GMT -7
Thinking I might get to go to a woodswalk, where the club has a 65 grain powder charge limit, I figured I'd make another bag for roundball to hold more balls and with a smaller neck for .595 ball. I normally shoot .610 ball with cards and wads, no patch, but a patched .595 ball was the second best. Of course this was with 85 grains of 3f. Figure if I'm likely just blowing holes in air, why waste my .610 balls, and maybe the lighter smaller ball will help with the lighter charge.
Anyway, I've made these before in a smaller shape and size, bamboo/cane neck, a small branch from my late grandma's apple tree provided pretty wood for a plug. Used different leather this time. I usually use Tandy "buckskin" that I heavily abuse, dye, oil, and wax to get the "Tandy" look to go away. Waxed linen cord for the neck wrap. The stick for the plug is undersize so I wrapped a linen thread collar around it and saturated that with beeswax to create my seal.
Apparently I can't get a "BBCODE" from IMGUR anymore, sorry.
I tried to show the difference in size and shape of the new pattern compared to the usual one. I don't like the final shape of the finished product with the new one, too triangular. I will trim the sides more parallel .
I thought I was going to include more info, but my frustration with picture posting has my brain fried.
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Post by brokennock on Dec 8, 2019 14:32:56 GMT -7
Found them,,,,,,,, I think (hope?)
I was also trying to show the difference in the color of the leather before and after oiling. This leather has a surface that feels like it would crack and tear easily while sewing,,,, until some mink oil is applied. I cut the shapes out, then warmed the flesh side with a heat gun and applied the mink oil. Works like a charm,,, and looks nicer too.
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Post by brokennock on Dec 12, 2019 19:35:27 GMT -7
Thought I'd add a couple more pics for size comparison of the new bag intended for range use versus the older ones that were more intended for hunting and short outings.
and some just to show the beauty of working with the apple branches, the wood starts so plain but a little heat and beeswax brings out a lot.
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Post by artificer on Dec 19, 2019 23:55:09 GMT -7
I applaud you for making a ball bag that best fits the size and number of balls you need for a specific purpose.
In the mid to late 70's, I could only afford to make one Shot Pouch/Hunting Bag. I had to use it for my Brown Bess Carbine and a .45 cal. flint rifle. So I found I had to make some items like two separate ball bags, to keep things straight when I shot different matches on the same day or over a few days at Friendship. This even though some matches were only 5 shots. I sheepishly admit it took me twice when using loose balls in the bag and did not have the right size or number of balls for a match, before I would up doing that.
Though I never got into even the Top Ten when shooting "The Northwest Trade Gun Match" at the Nationals at Friendship in those years, the rules of that match and actually running the Match a couple of times, really taught me something important. The main rule I learned much from then was that once you crossed over a line on the ground, you could not leave to get something you needed and had forgotten. IOW, if you were short of balls, patches, wads, or whatever and stepped over the line to shoot the match, you were just out of luck for the match. This was to simulate what would have happened in the period, if you forgot something necessary and then had to "make do or not" with what you had.
Later when I could afford to make a Shot Pouch/Hunting Bag for each firearm, I still took extra care to ensure I had what I needed in the Pouch before I began a match or hunting, etc.
Gus
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Post by Black Hand on Dec 22, 2019 9:37:59 GMT -7
I have one bag and one horn.
My rifle and smoothbore are 62 caliber - both use 75gr of FFFg and 60 caliber balls (30+ in a ball bag) and my tin contains two thicknesses of patching material lubed with bear grease. I never worry about grabbing the wrong bag, measure or horn...
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