Get yourself a bullet puller - it's a small attachment for your ramrod. It has a self tapping screw at the end and a brass disc as a bore guide. Usually works fine especially if you have a good ramrod. And your bore isn't crudded up.
Also, if you need to load up the nipple pathway, use fine powder if possible.
Yup. If you're shooting sabots, you'll pull the bullet out of the sabot, then have to screw it into the sabot and pull that out, too. I know this, because. ....a 1:48 should shoot a 230-250 gr. XTP, very well. I have 1 that will shoot a 300, but found that most will not. Stick with the XTP, not the pointy bullets. Pointed bullets have not stabilized well, in my 1:48.
