A powder horn ... unusual ?

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Originally Posted by rickystl

... While most contemporary shooters today use seperate powders for the barrel and priming (for flint guns), carried in seperate horns (the priming horn being much smaller) most historical evidence from the period seems to indicate the common use of just one powder in one horn/flask...

Well i am not a shooter but i was (army, guerilla war and all that jazz).
... And while an antique weapons collector, i believe a couple of my powder flasks/horns are primers. But i believe that in this context such was not the case.

Originally Posted by rickystl

... So I can't visulize a practicle reason for the two functioning spouts, except maybe a novel way to carry a largeer quantity of powder...

Could well be but, why not carrying a larger 'mono' spout horn, like all other humans ?

Originally Posted by rickystl

It would be interesting to take a piece of wire or similar and see if both horns are hollowed through, or is there an internal divider at the middle essentially making it two seperate horns.

That's precisely what i intend to do when i get it back from someone's attempt to replace one missing spout spring.