A Possible Question

[celticleather]

I sometimes come across references to 'possibles bags', usually on US websites. If one assumes that a possibles bag is for carrying possibles, what is a 'possible'? Has anyone got a picture of a possible, or is that impossible?

[David]

Possibles bags are used for carrying supplies of blackpowder shooters, the bag can contain any thing you could possibly need for hunting.

Dave

[Johanna]

A smart alec told me that they are called possibles because getting by without them is "impossible". Just a possibility.

Johanna

[Luke Hatley]

A POSSIBLES BAG: ONE CAN CARRY ANYTHING POSSIBLE IN IT......

AS FOR BLACK POWDER AND GUN SUPPLIES THEY WOULD USE A "HUNTING BAG"

IMHO. MY DECDUCTION OF 26 YEARS IN THE MOUNTAINS........

[wildrose]

I'm glad for this post, because the pictures of the "possible bag" were the first time I'd heard the term at all, and I thought to myself: "well it looks like a definite bag to me!"

[David]

A POSSIBLES BAG: ONE CAN CARRY ANYTHING POSSIBLE IN IT......

AS FOR BLACK POWDER AND GUN SUPPLIES THEY WOULD USE A "HUNTING BAG"

IMHO. MY DECDUCTION OF 26 YEARS IN THE MOUNTAINS........

I'll bow to Luke's definition, I'm no mountain man for sure... I just always hear the term about a hundred times when ever I go to Friendship, IN.

David

[Luke Hatley]

I'll bow to Luke's definition, I'm no mountain man for sure... I just always hear the term about a hundred times when ever I go to Friendship, IN.

David

YES, DAVID the Shooting Bag is refered to as a" possibles bag ", but there is a difference between the two,

[Windy]

I'll bow to Luke's definition, I'm no mountain man for sure... I just always hear the term about a hundred times when ever I go to Friendship, IN.

David

David,

Is that Friendship In. where they hold the largest

muzzle loader event in the world. The one where

people from as far away as Japan come to shoot and

have fun dressed in old mountain man clothing.

Cook over open fires and chat with friends as the

flames dance till the wee hours in the morning.

Or is it another Friendship In. somewhere I have

never heard of.

WINDY

[JohnD]

I agree with Luke"s definition.

I used to read alot about primitive living and survivalism(?) and a lot of the authors would refer to them (possibles bags). Trappers and mountain men would carry them also.

They can be used, as Luke said, to carry anything you might possibly need. Things that were found along your way are kept in your possibles bag, in case you find a use for them.

Fire starting materials, tools and other such hardware.

In the movie "Jeremiah Johnson", Redford's character carries one.

My .02

John