Hawken Era Shooting Pouch [SL-2984]

Description

Shooting Bag – Bullet Bag – Hunting Bag

This is a small shoulder bag measuring about 7 inches x 5 inches; small enough to hold just a few bullets and some small tools.
Some call it a ‘hunting bag’, but the original frontiersmen typically called it a ‘bullet-pouch’.
These pouches served the basic needs of the individual and his weapon across the subsequent generations of the American story.
They were carried on the shoulders and waists of colonials ‘woodsrunners’, riflemen and rangers. They served the following generations of explorers and fur trappers as they crossed the Mississippi and ventured into the Rocky Mountains. Bullet-pouches were indispensable to the frontiersmen, trackers and guides crossing the plains and deserts to the Pacific coast. The tribal people who had their own means of carrying essential tools, food, and medicine before contact with the white newcomers soon added bullet bags, molds, and powder horns to their kits as well.

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