leather shotgun toe protectors

[jungle_re]

After lowing the working life of several pairs of boots/wellie over the years from resting the broken gun barrels on the toe of my boot i decided to make one of these for myself.
1 in the pics with a leather thong and stiff stop slide (for wellies). Mink oiled and waxed.

Cheers for looking

 

[Rothley Bill]

Hey thats a cracking idea, not seen anything like it before.

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Cool ! A bushcraft bike tax holder :You_Rock_

 

[Kerne]

Ingenious - you might have spotted a niche market here!

 

[jungle_re]

Cheers Guys, does look a bit like a motocycle tax disc holder. Was going to make a few more for sale, but the ones i did there was not much interest so wasnt worth paying £30 to try and sell them. There helping save my boots though

 

[Tadpole]

Cheers Guys, does look a bit like a motocycle tax disc holder. Was going to make a few more for sale, but the ones i did there was not much interest so wasnt worth paying £30 to try and sell them. There helping save my boots though

you really need to carve a big L or an R on it.
See if anyone asks you hwat the letter stands for

 

[jungle_re]

you really need to carve a big L or an R on it.
See if anyone asks you hwat the letter stands for

Then put em on the wrong feet :sulkoff:

 

[Mike Ameling]

Or tool in the letters TGIF!

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

I'll go crawl back under my rock.

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

p.s. No, not Thank God It's Friday, but Toes Go In First!

 

[demographic]

Cool ! A bushcraft bike tax holder :You_Rock_

Don't give the gubermint any ideas, they will be wanting a congestion charge for a pair of wellies next.

 

[weaver]

Good way to blow your toe off.

Laugh if you want, but I know a guy who did it. Dropped in a shell, flipped the barrel closed only this time the barrel got caught on his boot and the shotgun fired an ounce of #8 through his boot and took off his big toe.

 

[jungle_re]

my gun gets rested there when broken, never closed and i dont load it there not by concious effort but its not what naturally comes easy.

Id have to do quite a few things that i never do to manage that,

1. load the gun with it on my toe
2. close the gun with it still on my toe
3. load and close with the safety off
4. pull the trigger whilst still on my toe.

 

[Dougster]

1. load the gun with it on my toe
2. close the gun with it still on my toe
3. load and close with the safety off
4. pull the trigger whilst still on my toe.

Doable if you try though mate eh?

You are knocking out some seriously nice leather bits, and your new blades are ace.

 

[jungle_re]

cheers mate

most things are acheivable if you want to do them, but i really dont wont to shoot off my toes so i wont

 

[spoony]

Ingenious - you might have spotted a niche market here!

been going quite a while folk use them for DTL

 

[British Red]

Super work

Sadly my shotgun won't quite work with them

Nice though

 

[Gwhtbushcraft]

My great grandpa (im 15) was leaning on his shotgun while watching a game of football and he left himself with just three fingers, he coped (sharpened fork ect) but it shows it can happen.
George

 

[xylaria]

My great grandpa (im 15) was leaning on his shotgun while watching a game of football and he left himself with just three fingers, he coped (sharpened fork ect) but it shows it can happen.
George

How bad does a football game have to be to even think of watching it with loaded shotgun!!!. Crikey anyone would think footie violence was modern. There was an american president that shot himself in the foot.

Nice leather work.

 

[Gwhtbushcraft]

Ah, cripes I walked into that one! Should have read it more thoroughly I believe he was leaning over a fence watching some boys have a kick around in a field. I don’t think I ever had the pleasure of meeting him actually, but I believe he was an engineer that built gliders in his spare time and he made a leather device on his stump that he could screw tools into and he continued building gliders!
George

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

At the end of the day, accidents will always happen, so take a step back, enjoy the design, and take responability for your own actions

Now go out and enjoy your sport

 

[spoony]

really like the one for the boot, very good work,