Oh, I agree. I saw the patch. It came out of the barrel on fire with the center missing.
Maybe you did . But probably what you saw was the back half of the patch .
By chance did you use a store bought gun cleaning patch without cutting it down , with a basic non necked cleaning jag placed on the end of your ram rod
OR
go down an buy one of those special range rods for cleaning . Then put the basic non necked cleaning jag on it with a gun cleaning patch .
OR
maybe you read about the issue with keeping the Lyman improved breech clean , so you bought one of those stepped cleaning jags from Traditions ?
If you used a basic non necked cleaning jag with a regular large square gun cleaning patch , that patch will wad up around the rod as you try and pull it out . Thus it will jam up tight .
If you want to use the large cleaning patches , you for the most part need a necked jag so the exstra material will have a place to go as you pull the RR out .
If you tried one of those step jag and used a proper size and thickness cleaning patch .� IE one only slightly larger then what you would use to shoot a RB with�
Got that down in the bore . Then got the tip stuck in the improved breech .
Lets do this .
Lets start over .
Take your RR , with the end that has lost its tip . Put it back down the bore and into the RR tip if you can . Mark a line on the rr right at the muzzle .
Take the RR out and lay it along the barrel so your mark is even with the muzzle .
Hoe far from the nipple is the broken end of your RR ?