Are you shooting a sidelock or inline? If you have an inline, all you need to do to unload w/o firing is disassemble the gun, remove the breach plug, and ram the bullet out that way. If you have a sidelock, you have a couple of options. If you are using a lead bullet, or a jacketed bullet with a large hollow/soft point, you can use a screw-type bullet puller. You thread it to your ramrod, then tap it into the nose of the bullet and pull it out. If shooting patched roundballs, there is a ramrod attachment that has two little tines that grap the patch to pull the ball out. The easiest way is to get one of those little CO2 cartridge powered unloading devices (don't remember exactly what they are called), that is placed on the nipple and blows the charge out.

BTW, what part out Iowa are you from? I'm hunting early muzzleloader in Johnson County this year.

Mike


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