Dale K - you should be fine and don’t feel too bad it’s happened to me twice at our local muzzleloader shoots early in my muzzleloader days - both times with small caliber muzzleloaders that I didn’t have a range rod for - which prompted me to get a range rod so that it would be more obvious (we leave the rods in until we shoot to let us know it’s loaded). Our shoots often would correspond with dusk/night fall and the lighting was not great - get to talking while waiting a turn to shoot and bingo rod is going down range with the ball. Never hurt the muzzleloader - sure did my ego and the guys to this day ask me if the rod is going along to the target too?🥴😄.
PennDog
Last edited by PennDog; 11/11/21.
