🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Need help identifying this (maybe) gun related tool.

[diggummup]

It's homemade. Found at an estate sale in the country. About 10" long. Appears antique based on the construction methods and materials. I'm guessing it has something to do with reloading. Thanks

 

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[robertk]

Wild guess, a press to seat bullets into the cartridge. Empty primed cartridge would be inserted into the hole, close the flap, flip it over, add powder, put the bullet in it, close and squeeze to seat it. But this is really a guess. If that's not it, I don't know.

 

[Almy]

I agree with RTK. Looks like a primitive, wooden form of what became the Lyman "nutcracker" reloading tool.

 

[Marino13]

Suzanne summers thigh master. Covered wagon model. 🤣 sorry
It's the first thing that popped in my head.

 

[diggummup]

Thanks everyone. I was thinking along those same lines, I just never saw a wooden one before. I guess it's just some old Kentucky home Craftsmanship, probably out of necessity more than anything.