Push it down as far as you possibly can.......you cannot push the charge too far down the barrel, but you can push it not far enough (which is a VERY bad thing). Basically, I compress the charge until it hurts my hand.....my ramrod is hollow on the upper end and the indentations it leaves in my hand make me look like I was attacked by an octopus by the end of the day.

T/C makes a screw-on, folding T-handle that screws into that hole in the ramrod and I really like using it at the range........it doesn't leave the "octopus" marks and gives me all the leverage I could ever want.


"Every moving thing that liveth, I give unto you as meat" (Gen 9:3)

Trust God..........but keep your powder dry!