A Couple Of Horn Shot Holders

[Tim Crosby]

    The first one is about 4 ½” long, the base and plug are Walnut, it will handle up to .45 balls.
 The second is right at 4”. The 1  ½” base is Walnut and it too will work with a .45, the stopper is also Walnut  I hadn’t planned on the ring but the horn was pretty thin. Now that I have taken pix I see where the horn needs to be tapered down a bit more, oh well easy fix.
  Similar to:Grant’s Power Horns And Their Architecture  pages 13 and 48.


   Tim C.   

[Osprey]

It always amazes me what sort of neat stuff I'll find on here.  That first one is really nice Tim, cool way to carry extra roundballs!

[skillman]

Those are great Tim. I might have to do one myself.

Steve

[hanshi]

Those are great.  I especially like the turning stopper in the first one; such an idea never occurred to me and is something I'd like to try, now that I've seen it.

[Bentflint]

Very cool. Did the book give a date the first one have came from?

[seaguy]

Those are great.  I especially like the turning stopper in the first one; such an idea never occurred to me and is something I'd like to try, now that I've seen it.

I like that one too. Can't really tell but I would think the turning spindle has a ball size cup in it. Catch a ball and turn it to the outside. Sound right?

[Tim Crosby]

Very cool. Did the book give a date the first one have came from?

 The time frame given is Circa 1820-40. Although the one in the book is a powder horn.

    Tim C.

[Tim Crosby]

Those are great.  I especially like the turning stopper in the first one; such an idea never occurred to me and is something I'd like to try, now that I've seen it.

I like that one too. Can't really tell but I would think the turning spindle has a ball size cup in it. Catch a ball and turn it to the outside. Sound right?

  The turning spindle/valve is drilled through, when the small pin at the side is at 90 deg to the horn a ball will roll out, a slight turn and it stops the balls from coming out.

    Tim C.

[AlanInMassachusetts]

At least with small caliber balls, if the spindle was not drilled through all the way it would dispense only one ball every time, instead of a stream of them that you have to stop by tilting the dispense end up. Please don't take this as criticism, but as perhaps group product development! And of course your original post said shot horn, but things seem to have drifted a bit.

[wattlebuster]

I like em both. The turning plug is a neat Idea