Fowler Bag and Accouterments

This is a heavy deer skin bag I just finished up. Everything is hand sewn with a waxed linen thread. A friend of mine made the linen strap. As you may be able to see in the photos there is a main compartment plus one inside and one outside pocket. The reinforcement band at the top of the inside is vegetable tanned cow hide. The patch knife has been previously shown on here. The Irish shot charger is antiqued brass with a deer skin tube. This is fixed to the strap with a pewter button and a leather loop on the lower end. Shot snake can be removed from the bag this way to reduce weight if so desired. The antler tip powder measure is for a 55 grain charge.

Reflex Deflex Longbow

Here is the finished bow. Bamboo backed hickory. 60 lb draw weight at 28"

In The Works

You will have to excuse the mess. Having just finished up repairs and modifications to 4 guns I move on to this project. It is a bamboo backed hickory reflex deflex longbow. It's coming along but still needs a lot of wood removal and tillering. I have a fowler bag in the works as well. I will try to keep you all posted.

Refinished Rifle; before and after

This was a pretty nice rifle to start with, but it did have a bit of extra wood on it, a non functional patchbox, odd sights, and some other things that needed attention. I refinished the stock after stripping it down, making some mods to the carvings, removing excess wood, etc. The patchbox can now be opened with a push button on the buttplate. The rear sight was reworked and the front replaced. It needed a new touch hole liner, fly in the lock was missing, sear spring replaced, trigger reworked, and fiberglass ramrod replaced with a hickory one. The metal parts where all darkened up some. Some screws where replaced and pins shortened. The breech end of the barrel channel was glass bedded to take care of some gaps and a weak spot in the stock.

Rifleman's Knife

This knife has an 8 1/2" blade forged from 1084 steel. I made the guard from a thick piece of brass. The handle is whitetail antler with the tang running all the way through the steel pommel. The sheath is vegetable tanned leather with some rustic tooling, a dark brown dye, and has been burnished over.