Don’t load it without a ball puller and patch worm on hand

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Sooner or later you are gonna have to pull a load, the ball puller on the end of the ramrod screws into the lead ball so you can pull it back out.

You’ll be needing the patch worm to pull the patch or more often retrieve cleaning patches that went down but didn’t come back out. Sure is bothersome to have something stuck in the barrel and no way to get it out.

Worst of all is if the end of your ramrod breaks off down in the barrel with cleaning jag or the like attached. A royal PITA to get out. I’ve seen wooden ramrods break twice, the hardwood ramrod on that beautiful rifle is OK for show and prob’ly OK for loading.

Get yourself a cleaning rod or synthetic ramrod for cleaning it

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Might as well get yourself some spare flints too.

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