GA day horn & cloth open topped bag by Jeff Bibb

[Dr. Tim-Boone]

Open topped cloth Southern bag and flat bag horn made by Jeff Bibb  to accompany a GA smoothie I made for a friend.

A terrific bag and horn combo!  Bag is lined, has a small pocket against the back and a pigskin strap.

Jeff does great work!

[David Rase]

Tim,
How do you like that open topped bag?  I picked up a brocade open topped bag from Jerry Rice about a month ago and love it.  For years I kept wondering why am I fighting the flap everytime I reach into the bag for an item.  I saw the drawings in Jim Webb's book and made it a point to give one a try.  I am designing a second bag and hope to get it assembled and rigged sometime before spring.
Dave

[BrownBear]

You're right.  That's excellent work!

I've long been a serious fan of "day" horns carried inside a bag, and have similarly been pretty fed up with lifting a flap. 

I hadn't ever considered doing an open-top bag, but your photos provide enough detail to encourage me that it's the right answer for me.

Thanks!

[Shreckmeister]

   I guess I have a few concerns about open topped bags.  When I hunt, I often have to crawl over
stumps and bend down under brush.  I'd be afraid of things falling out of the open bag.  Also,
it would get full of plant debris after a day of hard hunting.

[smokinbuck]

Another concern relating to open top bags and day horns inside was brought to the front a few years ago. A friend of mine is a native american reenactor who used the said equipment. He suffered some serious burns when his flintlock ignited powder that had spilled in the open bag.
Mark

[Tim Crosby]

 Good looking set, I like the open top style, note the button. If you haven't tried one a bag or pocket horn is handy, no snagging or twisting.

 Tim C.

[G. Elsenbeck]

Dr. Tim I think it's a great little outfit and I'm sure will work out just fine.  And nice job Jeff!!

Gary

[Dr. Tim-Boone]

   I guess I have a few concerns about open topped bags.  When I hunt, I often have to crawl over
stumps and bend down under brush.  I'd be afraid of things falling out of the open bag.  Also,
it would get full of plant debris after a day of hard hunting.

Dang Suzkat. you don't spose to catch 'em by hand....you sposed to shoot them ......   In GA our daddys teach us to use the trails......   As you say it is possible to spill or capture debris, but my experience is that it doesn't happen as easy as you think...at least for the gentleman hunter

I guess there will always be some fire risk when BP is involved... I am never sure how careful is careful enough?

[Tim Crosby]

Dang Suzkat. you don't spose to catch 'em by hand....you sposed to shoot them ......  In GA our daddys teach us to use the trails......   As you say it is possible to spill or capture debris, but my experience is that it doesn't happen as easy as you think...at least for the gentleman hunter

  LMAO!!!!

  Tim C.

[LURCHWV@BJS]

   I guess I have a few concerns about open topped bags.  When I hunt, I often have to crawl over
stumps and bend down under brush.  I'd be afraid of things falling out of the open bag.  Also,
it would get full of plant debris after a day of hard hunting.

Dang Suzkat. you don't spose to catch 'em by hand....you sposed to shoot them ......   In GA our daddys teach us to use the trails......   As you say it is possible to spill or capture debris, but my experience is that it doesn't happen as easy as you think...at least for the gentleman hunter
 Ya see Docta Tim weez got them smartdeers here in the West Virginny  and Pennsylvaney area.  Thems smart fo sho,  theys gits off them thar trails an wiggle thar way thru da bush and thorns and such sos they can wait out da sezun. We gots ta crawl in afta em.  Shoot I gots one so deep in them woods onest I hads to catch em on fire and send im home ona smoke signal,course th wind caught it an blew im over to Ohio,but he was a biggun

   Rich

I guess there will always be some fire risk when BP is involved... I am never sure how careful is careful enough?

[Dr. Tim-Boone]

 

[Jefferson58]

Tim and all:

Glad you folks like the set. I do appreciate it. It was a lot of fun to make.

I have always thought that the open top design was very useful for day hunts or shoots. It is interesting to me that such a simple design attracts so much interest, considering the humble Southern Appalachian roots of its origin.

Since this was posted, I have received a couple of inquiries about these. All I can say is that I will be making more in the future.

Thanks again,

Jeff

[skillman]

I had a discussion with Lee Larkin that bears on this. The conditions that people were/are hunting in varies widely by area. Out here in western Washington, we have serious underbrush. If you're not on a trail you're working hard to get through it. I use a flap on my hunting pouch. If you're in an area where there isn't much brush or better yet, no brush(like eastern Washington) then there isn't as much reason to have that flap to secure and keep everything contained in the bag. If you're shooting at a range or on a trailwalk you really don't need a flap at all. I believe that conditions drove the design of the bag, how it hung on the person, and how the horn was attached or carried.
Oh yes, Really nice outfit Tim.

Steve

[James Rogers]

Great work Jeff.
I have seen a couple of original "southron" open tops that Jim Webb had. You have created a very believable packaging with soul. I have plans to make one of those for a tree rat rifle I have on the back burner and this is certainly an inspiration. I like the idea of an in the pouch horn as well.