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Daniel Coats:
My personal real life experience happened on a successful one hour stalk on a record book pronghorn antelope. I belly crawled through the cactus and sagebrush to get within range of my handmade flintlock long rifle. Along the way most of the contents of my possibles bag and all of my powder was lost. What I found was a native American flint hide scraper neatly knapped hundreds of years ago which told me somewhere back in time another hunter had been doing the exact same thing that I was.

Shopdog:

--- Quote from: Daniel Coats on October 08, 2021, 03:01:39 AM ---My personal real life experience happened on a successful one hour stalk on a record book pronghorn antelope. I belly crawled through the cactus and sagebrush to get within range of my handmade flintlock long rifle. Along the way most of the contents of my possibles bag and all of my powder was lost. What I found was a native American flint hide scraper neatly knapped hundreds of years ago which told me somewhere back in time another hunter had been doing the exact same thing that I was.

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Dan - that’s a great story! As an archaeologist it’s the little random isolated finds like your scraper that always make me wonder the most about the person and their situation that resulted in the artifact ending up where it did. 

Personally I prefer to still hunt on foot both modern and muzzleloader.  Despite trudging through some thick stuff (palmetto thickets, scrub oak, river swamp, etc) Ive never had an issue with a bag and horn.  Any dangling stuff like measure or bullet board i have tethered to strap stay inside the bag till needed and most of my bags have a button closure.  As others here have pointed out, wearing bag and horn tucked up high like so many old timers did takes out alot of slop.  Im right handed so I wear the bag and horn on left side - more comfortable that way when carrying rifle in right hand.  Ifn Im wearing a sash or wide belt I might tuck bag under sash just to hold it down if im gonna do alot of climbing or crawling. 

Jeff Murray:
You might try tying a thong to the back strap of the bag and tying the thong to your belt, or all the way around your waist if you want to carry a bag and may end up crawling on the ground.  When hunting critters like antelope, I often wear an military style camo shirt with expandable pockets at the bottom seam.  Loading block, short starter and pre- measured powder charges in the right pocket and extra flints etc in the left.  Back pack carries field dressing tools.  I still prefer hunting with a horn and bag and have a rig with shorter straps for that purpose.  Depends on what I am hunting.

ScottC60:
If the bag and horn straps are shortened so both ride up against the lower ribs, or about at the elbow: there are no flopping/snagging issues.   

It's when the bag & horn hang down around the hip that there will be issues.  That low hang works well at the range, but not while hunting/trekking.

MuskratMike:
I don't live in the late 1700's or early 1800's so the bag & horn I have with each rifle is for shooting pleasure. I am leaving in a few days for a 9 day either sex muzzleloader elk hunt in eastern Oregon. I will have my bag and horn in the pick-up truck and probably will bring my shooting box along and of course my hunting bag with ax, saw and other necessities for after kill work. The only thing left in the belt bag is a steel for touching up the knife, a smaller folding knife, license and tag and finally 3 more tubes of powder. This is really all I need to hunt with for a single day along with some food and water.
Photo shows my belt bag with belt, vent pick, compass short starter Don Bruton made belt knife, flat priming horn, 1 tube of premeasured 3F powder and a carved antler 3 ball block made into a rattlesnake tail. I will be using my Don Bruton made .54 caliber flintlock (see full article on this rifle and knife in the August 2021 issue of Muzzle Blasts). i hope to have post harvest photos on line next week. Where I will be hunting finding even a chance of cell phone is problematic at best but I will try.


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