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General discussion => Contemporary Accoutrements => Topic started by: Tenn Hills Guy on October 02, 2015, 08:12:27 PM

Title: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Tenn Hills Guy on October 02, 2015, 08:12:27 PM

I'm in the process of building...or finishing... a swivel breech flinter and carving out the patchbox.   I'm wondering what sort of stuff one can cram in there...besides patches?  I'm also building in my own release.  Appears some had 'secret' release mechanisms (mine too).  What secret treasures did they hold?  Bill

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Natureboy on October 02, 2015, 09:39:16 PM

  My flinter has a sliding wooden matchbox, with a grease hole and a larger compartment.  I keep tow and a tow worm in the larger one, and char cloth in the grease pit.  Using the lock, I can start a fire easily, and the tow worm is used for a quick mid-shoot cleaning of the breech plug.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: PPatch on October 02, 2015, 11:10:56 PM

Treasure: Tradition holds that a Snickers bar is just the thing for a patchbox. I normally keep nothing in a patchbox though since my shooting is pretty much always off the front porch so anything I might require is at hand.

dave

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Bob Roller on October 03, 2015, 02:22:15 AM

Quote from: PPatch on October 02, 2015, 11:10:56 PM

Treasure: Tradition holds that a Snickers bar is just the thing for a patchbox. I pretty much keep nothing in a patchbox though since my shooting is pretty much always off the front porch so anything I might require is at hand.

dave

I always thought it was an ash tray for people who smoked in the woods.

Bob Roller

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Virginiarifleman on October 03, 2015, 05:49:41 PM

i keep a jag extention and extra flints in my patch boxes.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: oldtravler61 on October 05, 2015, 05:07:45 AM

I'm with patch!

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Kopfjaeger on October 05, 2015, 11:10:04 PM

Tow Worm, Ball Puller, and some Tow.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Scott Bumpus on October 06, 2015, 05:11:10 AM

Sawdust {not finished sanding yet}

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Stoner creek on October 07, 2015, 03:32:48 AM

There's a dead guy in mine.
Scrimshaw on a piano ivory.
Gets a chuckle every time!

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Boatman53 on October 07, 2015, 04:53:15 AM

I'd like to see that Stoner. Are there any photos up already? I have a bunch of piano keys already. As well as a bunch of Mother Of Pearl. Was that used at all on LR's
Jim

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Stoner creek on October 08, 2015, 03:17:33 AM

Pm me with your email address and I'll send you pix. This is part of a folk art gun that I would love to post.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: smylee grouch on October 08, 2015, 04:12:35 AM

I've seen pictures of prayer holes with prayers in some of the patchbox's on this forum.   

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Hessian on October 08, 2015, 06:52:09 AM

tallow, tow worm/ball puller, tow,3 patched balls sewn into patches.
(I might add a flint & a vent pick , char cloth)
Hessian

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Pete G. on October 10, 2015, 04:57:28 PM

I keep patches in my patchbox; both cleaning and a few for shooting, along with jag, ball puller and a spare flint.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: davec2 on October 13, 2015, 12:40:54 AM

Stripped down version of the shooting tool I made for the shooting bag.  This version fits easily in the patch box and, in the small leather case, doesn't rattle around.  It gives me a ram rod "T" handle, a worm, a jag, a ball puller, a vent pick, and a brass knapping tool.  And there is room in the patch box for and extra flint as well.

(https://preview.ibb.co/cHbAWH/IMG_4487.jpg) (http://ibb.co/kj82dx)

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(https://preview.ibb.co/hTiJJx/IMG_4491.jpg) (http://ibb.co/dMoUQc)

(https://preview.ibb.co/bDiJJx/IMG_4492.jpg) (http://ibb.co/hcokyx)

(https://preview.ibb.co/dQRG5c/IMG_4493.jpg) (http://ibb.co/ccQnBH)

(https://preview.ibb.co/e4ALWH/IMG_4494.jpg) (http://ibb.co/fa2Cdx)

(https://preview.ibb.co/dyy7BH/IMG_4495.jpg) (http://ibb.co/jcTUQc)

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: grabenkater on October 13, 2015, 06:24:26 PM

Patches, spare flint, three or four balls and a cleaning jag.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: smokinbuck on October 16, 2015, 01:49:41 AM

Picked up a rifle in a trade some years back that had a nice cap, not patch, box on it. Looked the rifle over and made the deal. Low and behold when I opened the cap box there was no hole! The fellow had taken the time to inlet the cap box very nicely but didn't drill out the hole in the stock.
Mark

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: iloco on October 16, 2015, 02:18:16 AM

Cleaning Jag and Ball Puller in my Patch Box.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Robby on October 16, 2015, 02:31:18 AM

When I'm making it, my heart and soul go into it, when I'm carrying it, um, nothing.
Robby

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Kermit on October 16, 2015, 08:02:00 PM

Jag, partches, air.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Arcturus on October 16, 2015, 09:26:12 PM

Tow, tow worm, a few patches.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Old Ford2 on October 18, 2015, 03:30:20 PM

Quote from: smokinbuck on October 16, 2015, 01:49:41 AM

Picked up a rifle in a trade some years back that had a nice cap, not patch, box on it. Looked the rifle over and made the deal. Low and behold when I opened the cap box there was no hole! The fellow had taken the time to inlet the cap box very nicely but didn't drill out the hole in the stock.
Mark

LAZY BUGGER!

Fred

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: axelp on October 20, 2015, 04:02:59 AM

A feather to plug my vent at night when in the woods and sometimes a jag or an extra flint. Sometimes I leave it empty. I like the idea of a dead guy.... My rifle has a folk art horse effigy patchbox so a dead horse might be more appropriate. I also have a horse effigy ball board attached to my bag strap. I call this gun my "hoss rifle."

K

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: cmac on October 24, 2015, 05:49:43 AM

Sometimes flints, jag, patches. Other times coffee or tea....yes it holds enough to make a corn broiler full

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: heelerau on November 04, 2015, 02:51:27 AM

I Just keep a couple of extra flints in any of my patch boxes.

cheers

Heelerau

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: P.W.Berkuta on November 05, 2015, 08:43:23 PM

Very nice Dave -- your answer to the "Swiss Army Knife" for longrifles ;D?

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: Kopfjaeger on November 28, 2015, 07:46:04 PM

Quote from: Stoner creek on October 07, 2015, 03:32:48 AM

There's a dead guy in mine.
Scrimshaw on a piano ivory.
Gets a chuckle every time!

"LOL" Now I want a dead guy in my patchbox.

Title: Re: What's in your patchbox?
Post by: WadePatton on November 28, 2015, 08:19:18 PM

If'n the Feist don't quit likkin' all the tallow out of the greasehole in my rifle, I'm going to have to have a lid over it-a patchbox. 

Then I'll have tallow, tow, worm, and flints in there.  Tow/worm/flints in a bag such that they cannot fall completely out if box is opened inadvertently.