Let's All Show Our Priming Tools

I have various priming tools, the percussion I made them myself with the exception of an inline brass thingy which doesn't work and isn't used.  The flint primers were two purchased (brass) with the other two gifted.


Specifically the ones on the left & right.  R: musket cap primer.  L: #11 primer.  Everything pictured I made; except the horn which was just something I tinkered with.

I prime from the horn.  That's one less item to carry and/or lose. I had one of those brass things which meter out a small charge of FFFg powder, but with the humidity in Ketchikan (165" of rain a year, +/-) it would clog up big time, and eventually corroded inside.

~Kees~

Yep, I know what you're talking about, Winter Hawk. In the humid SE (Georgia) mine always worked but did clog a bit if the spout touched the pan fouling too many times. As long as I didn't let it touch the fouled pan (use a finger and "pour" it into the pan) there rarely was a problem. #4 from the left is a tiny prime horn with no springs so it works every time. Being very slow, usually by the time I get the rifle reloaded the sun has already come out and dried everything off.