A possibles bag was used to carry anything and everything that a mountain man needed to have immediately available.
Mountain man possibles bag contents. Tobacco and pipe tin cup flints jerky and other edibles nipple wrenches and picks tools for ones muzzleloader etc. These items would have included a flint and steel for making fire a pipe and tobacco eating utensils and shooting supplies such as a powder measure patches balls and extra flints. Black powder powder measurer flint and steel lead balls and patch a patch knife and a skinning knife as well as other personal items.
Things like shooting tools fire starting materials and bullets could be carried in this pouch. Trap sacks which contained the beaver traps were typically made from rawhide. Bud Smith Knife bag and sheath by Miss Tudy.
I had just put the final few stitches through my first mountain man possibles bag and was admiring my creation. The contents as they are laid out from top left to bottom right are. In the days of the mountain man a possibles bag was carried in which they carried everything that could possibly be needed for the day.
November 25 2016 Joe SSP YouTube Channel. I originally thought it would be a purely practical purchase but soon found myself getting into the whole mountain man thing. Possibles were all things the man might possibly need while out traveling.
It is a commercially made bag with pockets in number size and placement which are ideal to organize all the items necessary to load shot or round ball. The mountain man in this image wore a warm fur hat that did not tear like the hats from the East. In addition the drawing illustrates how mountain men wore the clothing of the Native Americans.
A possibles bag carried the mountain mans necessities such as knife and flint. To be certain a trapper was not a mountain man without a possibles bag. Horses mules and tack Everything needed to care for and use stock OR boats and canoes.