Possibles bag setup

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Unkel Gilbey

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Howdy,

Here's a question for all of your black powder shooters.

How is your possibles bag set up? I have a pretty good idea what goes in, but 'how' do you organize your stuff? Bullet bags are a good idea and make sense. So is a wallet to store stuff like extra parts, or small parts that might easily be lost otherwise.

But how do you store your patches? A patch box on the stock in nice, but not all guns have one, and it seems to me that it would be a little tedious to have to open a cover on the butt when you're digging everything else out of your bag, or accessing it from a lanyard around your neck.

So, how do you do it?

Thanks in advance!
Unkel Gilbey
 
Most of the people in know who take a possibles bag into the field, cut their own patches at the muzzle from strips of cloth carried in their bag or tied to the bag strap. They usually just chew on the end to moisten the patch and go from there. This is normally in a hunting situation. At the range, a lot of guys use store bought patches, but don't have to carry them.
 
Back in the day...

When I was a lot younger, a family friend took my brother and I shooting black powder and it was there that I was shown how to patch the ball in a small Philadephia derringer. It was just as you said: except we used a dab of grease on the ticking instead of spit. I centered the ball over that spot, started the ball down the tube until just past flush, sliced it off clean with a straight razor, and then rammed it the rest of the way down.

But I am using (at present) store bought patches, already greased with Wonder Lube, and it occurred to me that just having these things loose in the bag would be a problem somewhere down the line.

I had thoughts that maybe something like a thin wallet would suffice, as my Renegade doesn't have a patch box. A plastic bag in my possibles bag just doesn't trip my trigger, so there's got to be another way...

My thanks for the info. If anyone else out there has any comments, they're welcome.

Thanks,
Gilbey
 
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