First Shooting Bag/Pouch I Ever Made

[Steve Jajo]

I made the bag from cowhide. I dyed it from my own secret dye recipe ;D
It has a small inner compartment for rolled patch material and such. And the whole back of the bag has another compartment that I put my belt axe in upside down and secure the handle to the strap with a leather whang. It works out and carries great.
The brass buckle is thick, and very old. I bought it from an old man that still plies his trade as a cobbler/shoe repairman.
The whole bag has been treated with a mixture of beeswax and olive oil.

[Librarian]

How do !

You're a better man than me, Gunga Din.

My first "possibles bag" was a large square I cut from suede and my wife sewed together on her sewing machine. I decorated the flap with a white rabbit pelt, and the strap with a white and powder blue diamond pattern sead bead strip I loomed on an old Boy Scout seed-bead loom.

(My late pard had a friend who always talked about his "poe-see-blays" bag. Rich asked me what was a "poe-see-blays" bag. He said it was a mountain man shooting bag.)

The nice thing about Madison Grant's shooting pouch book is that 99% of the pouches fall in the 1830-1880 era.