That horn really makes "sense" to me Tim. We hunt very tight brush and anything dangling is tangling. Bag horns just make sense in this kind of terrain, and flattening the horn goes hand-in-hand with a compact bag. I can't speak knowledgeably about documented history of bag horns or the state of the brush fields centuries ago. But if conditions were anything like mine, it would be common sense to detangle from straps as much as possible.