Traditional Muzzleloading Association
Shooting Traditional Firearms and Weapons => General Interest => Topic started by: Spotted Bull on June 10, 2020, 11:01:23 PM
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How many of you guys like to keep all your stuff in a really cool range or shooting box, and then load up a pouch as needed? This is how I usually do it. I'll get photos of my box posted tomorrow, but if anyone else has one to post I'd really like to see it!
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I had a big range box once that I fashioned from an artillery cartridge box. There was a spot where I could screw down my spotting scope, and it carried four or five cans of powder There was places for the scope tripod, and cleaning solution and cleaning patches and a couple of boxes of round ball and various patches, and who knows what all. However, it was too darn heavy to be practical, so I bagged that idea. Then I got a plastic shooter's box and that limited the amount of stuff I could carry. But I still didn't like it, so I just got into carrying the stuff I wanted to take just in my pouch. One time heading back to Friendship, I weighed my pouch and it came in 38 pounds. Of course, I didn't carry all that stuff on the range, but I had it close at hand.
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I usually pack a day's worth of shooting or hunting (different payloads) of supplies in my pouch, but take along a G.I. ammo box with extra BP & cleaning supplies which stays in my vehicle while I shoot/hunt.
Not cool, but practical for me (YMMV).
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99.9% of the time (for me), what one refers to as a Range Box is reserved for two uses; 1. Zeroing in a new muzzle loading firearm, 2. Carrying supplies to restock my shooting bags & horns at Rendezvous, or any other type of shoots I'll be attending...
I seldom ever take anything other then my muzzle loading firearm, bag, and powder horn, to the Range with me for a shooting session,,, however I do carry along in the pickup a cleaning rod,,, and in an old coffee can; some cleaning patches - cleaning water - & rifle oil, to give the rifle a quick cleaning before heading back home where it'll get a more thorough cleaning in my shop.
I also carry in my shooting bag what I need to clean my smoke-pole, but the coffee can is simple to use and leaves my cleaning stuff in my shooting bag for when I need it in the field. :shake
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Here is my shooting box. Got it from a friend I made a bag for, in trade.
(https://i.ibb.co/ySg6NbR/20200621-154337.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wspSdxL)
(https://i.ibb.co/mqYYYBm/20200621-154816.jpg) (https://ibb.co/d2333cS)
(https://i.ibb.co/sCft2Hj/20200621-153601.jpg) (https://ibb.co/hc6Cyfs)
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Bull, that is just plain impressive. Not only the box, but also the plunder you carry in it. Very nice. :bl th up :bl th up
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John you should see the junk that's under that tray!! Lotsnof cleaning patches, cap tons, prelubed patches, boxes of balls, non-PC pliers, bottles of bp solvent, I think maybe even a pound can of powder. I need to clean that bottom up. The box weighs a ton right now!
And somewhere are the two brackets that slide onto each side that hold my rifle across the box. It comes in handy some times. I really need to find them.