priming horns !

[beowulf]

you may find this interesting !  http://www.flintriflesmith.com/WritingandResearch/Published/priminghorns_mb.htm

[hotfxr]

Interesting article. I rarely use a priming horn simply because I usually forget it and 3fff seems to work just as well.

[Patocazador]

I carry around enough stuff when hunting with my flinter. I don't use a priming horn but I prime with 4F from a small brass cylinder with a dispensing tube. Just push it down on your pan and enough 4F comes out to prime the load. It hangs around my neck.

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[beowulf]

I stopped using 4 f powder about 20 years ago ! saved me a lot of cash !  and I get to shoot more 1

[Hanshi]

I prefer 4F powder for prime and have a couple of "brass thingies" for it.  But I also have a nicely crafted priming "horn" which is made from a small piece of deer bone and walnut.  When I don't have any 4F (like currently) I use 3F.  But I don't prime from the main horn, too messy.  I'll carry a tiny container that works with the 3F for zero spilled waste.

[old salt]

I too have some of the bras things for priming.  At one roundy I was told that pirming  horns and spring loaded valves on horn were forbidden.  The arris that was telling me all this  that was standing there with powder running out of  his powder horn. I reached down put his pin in place and reached down with my flint and steel ignited the power it ran down the full length of the firing line. t Then explained to him that is why I had the spring valves on my horns

[Patocazador]

At one roundy I was told that pirming  horns and spring loaded valves on horn were forbidden.  The arris that was telling me all this  that was standing there with powder running out of  his powder horn. I reached down put his pin in place and reached down with my flint and steel ignited the power it ran down the full length of the firing line. t Then explained to him that is why I had the spring valves on my horns

Good for you! 

[beowulf]

I too have some of the bras things for priming.  At one roundy I was told that pirming  horns and spring loaded valves on horn were forbidden.  The arris that was telling me all this  that was standing there with powder running out of  his powder horn. I reached down put his pin in place and reached down with my flint and steel ignited the power it ran down the full length of the firing line. t Then explained to him that is why I had the spring valves on my horns

those spring valves on powder horns date back to about 1600 , and were used through the revolution , the fur trade ,and the civil war, they are period correct  !  so  you should have been allowed to use it !

[Red Badger]

I too have some of the bras things for priming.  At one roundy I was told that pirming  horns and spring loaded valves on horn were forbidden.  The arris that was telling me all this  that was standing there with powder running out of  his powder horn. I reached down put his pin in place and reached down with my flint and steel ignited the power it ran down the full length of the firing line. t Then explained to him that is why I had the spring valves on my horns

those spring valves on powder horns date back to about 1600 , and were used through the revolution , the fur trade ,and the civil war, they are period correct  !  so  you should have been allowed to use it !

I'd like to have the documentation on that - I have a shoot I like to go to and that I need to educate these guy's ...

[beowulf]

https://www.nps.gov/vafo/learn/historyculture/upload/PowderHorns-with-arrowhead.pdf

[Red Badger]

https://www.nps.gov/vafo/learn/historyculture/upload/PowderHorns-with-arrowhead.pdf

Thank you !

[flintboomer]

Interesting sight, good information on horns and they didn't show a date on the priming horns but did on the earlier powder containers.

[William]

Here is my primer, full of 4f. I've not been shooting flintlock long enough to say that one way or one powder works better or worse than another. I just dig the elk antler and all.

[William]

Nuther

[beowulf]

reminds me of the elk antler flask I made a few years back !