Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
Everyone please have a safe and enjoyable Holiday Season!
Leather Shot Bags & Accouterments for the French & Indian War.
Welcome to my Blog! My name is Darrel Lang and I specialize in the Replication of Leather shot bags & Accouterments made in the colonies by the harness and saddle maker of the18th century. All items are hand sewn using waxed linen thread, dyed, then treated with neatsfoot oil & bee’s wax. The leather used is of veg. tanned cow hide 2-3 or 4-5 oz. weight. Other materials used are pig skin, period correct linens for the 18th century and iron or brass buckles. Please take a look at what I have to offer. Thank you!
December 20, 2014
Holiday Greetings
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
Everyone please have a safe and enjoyable Holiday Season!
December 15, 2014
Time well spent
My son and I
had a chance to spend some time together in the woods trying our luck in taking
a buck during the 2014 Muzzleloader season. Using our flintlock smoothbores and dressed as rangers out of Fort Detroit in
the year of 1762.
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| Working as rangers, Eric took a little nap while I kept watch. |
Our plan was
to set up off the second ridge over from the upper fields and catch the deer as
they make their way to their bedding grounds. Well so much for plans for as we
made our way down the ridge line we had deer running everywhere. They must not
have gotten the memo, because they weren’t supposed to be there yet. We worked
our way down to our spot and set back to back against a large oak but, as our
luck would have it no deer. After sitting for a few hours I left my son to sit
and I walked the ridge line down to the end and dropped down to the bottom and
walked it slowly, stopping every now and then back to my son, hoping to move
one his way. Again no luck!
We then
moved to the other side of the ridge to sit and watch a trail that runs between
two thickets hoping to catch the buck that runs a bunch of scrapes along the
trail. Again no luck!
So now it
was time for lunch, so we worked our way back and met up with friends for
lunch.
Returning to
the woods around three, with plans to
hunt the trails leading up to the fields. Again, no luck, we didn’t see a
single deer. We blamed the warm weather with the temperature around 50, the
deer just weren’t moving.
We both had
a great day together in the woods something we don’t get to do very often. So
did we get a deer, NO! Did we have fun, you bet we did!
December 7, 2014
Just in time for Christmas
Hand sewn leather belt bag (5"w x 6"d) made of veg. tanned leather, dyed dark brown and treated with bee's wax. The bag has welted seams and a 1" gusset and a small inside pocket, will take up to a 2 1/2" belt.
December 5, 2014
Small Shot Pouch
Made from 4/5 oz. veg. tanned leather, hand sewn with waxed linen thread, dyed and treated with bees wax.
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