Finished up my first shot pouch the other night. Nothing fancy and by no means perfect. I haven't really done leather work, so it was a good a learning experience. I watched the Jeff Luke video on the NMLRA YouTube Channel "making a simple muzzleloading pouch" and drew a little inspiration from Mark Elliot's early Virginia shot pouches that I've admired on his website (hope he doesn't mind). I used waxed linen thread, a pewter button, and the strap has a hand forged buckle I found on eBay (not seen in these pics). Other than the underside of the flap I didn't dye the inside of the pouch, have found from the pouches I have it can be hard to see in a dark pouch when I can't find something by feel. Used Fiebing's chocolate color leather dye, followed by three very thin coats of pure neatsfoot oil, and finished with the saddle butter.
Very relaxing and enjoyable to make. I have the "recreating the 18th century hunting pouch" book, think I will give some of those a go. Would like to try making a powder horn as well.
The Last photo is the pouch with my Kibler woodsrunner, my Tim Crosby powder horn, and Kris Polizzi strap. Tim mentioned the powder horn might be one found in the early 19th century, so maybe not period correct, but I'm not really a reenactor and I loved the horn too much!
