Blinds, for use when packing.
The Pack-saddles are identical, with the exception of the yokes for carrying the different parts and a few minor changes in the pads.
The Harness is for two mules and consists of bridles, breast-collars, martingales, breeching, traces and pole-straps, and harness-sack (duck). The pole, neck-yoke, and splinter-bar are made of hickory.
Ammunition-boxes are made of pine and are 24" × 8" × 8". They have sliding covers, which are connected to the box by a lifting hinge. Each box holds 18 rounds of ammunition, and friction-primers. Weight of box empty 11 lbs. 8 oz.; weight of box filled 59 lbs., about.
PARTS OF OUTFIT PER GUN.
| 1 pack-saddle for gun. | 1 pack-saddle for carriage. | 1 pack-saddle for ammunition. |
| 1 crupper. | 1 crupper. | 1 crupper. |
| 1 belly-cincha. | 1 belly-cincha. | 1 belly-cincha. |
| 1 saddle-cincha. | 1 saddle-cincha. | 1 saddle-cincha. |
| 2 wheel-straps. | 1 cargo-cincha. | 1 cargo-cincha. |
| 2 hub-straps. | 1 trail-strap. | 1 lashing-rope. |
| 1 gun-pad. | 1 lashing-rope. | |
| 1 lashing-rope | ||
| 2 bridles. | 1 harness-sack. | 1 pole. |
| 2 breast-collars. | 1 neck-yoke. | 1 splinter-bar. |
| 2 martingales. | 1 neck-yoke brace. | Trail-hooks for attachment of splinter-bar. |
| 2 breechings. | 1 neck-yoke brace-billet, and chapes. | 4 ammunition-boxes. |
| 2 pairs traces. | 1 cartridge-pack. | |
| 2 pole-straps. | ||
| 1 blind. | 1 blind. | 1 blind. |
METHOD OF PACKING.
1. On long marches with a wagon train the whole packing outfit will be carried in the wagon train when practicable.
2. On packing the outfit to make expeditions, if it is known that there will be no occasion for hauling the gun and carriage, the hauling appliances, viz., harness, pole, yoke, and splinter-bar, can be left behind in the wagon train, at a camp or post, as the case may be; but as the hauling appliances add little to the pack, and unexpected occasions for their use are probable, they should be carried as a rule.