Do I get a nickel for every time I dry balled a rifle? I had a friend and his son over to the house one afternoon. The boy had just gotten a Tradition's St. Louis Hawkins. Needless to say he was excited. So after cleaning the rifle and explaining how to load the rifle to him. He was told to load. The look on his face when he said, "I forgot powder." So we cleared that ball and not more then six loads later he walked up to me and asked, "how do you get that ball out again? I forgot the powder." Believe me, you're not the first and will not be the last.