Well last night I was getting ready for Saturday's first day of the PA early ML season. I am planning on taking my 45 percussion. I found out that an empty 45-70 case holds exactly 80 gr of Pyrodex P (my load). So I filled 3 up in case I needed them. Then I thought I'd swab out the bore to remove any excess bore butter prior to loading it up. And just my luck, the jag with the dry patch got stuck in the breech and I could not pull it out. I took it over to my buddy's house next door to help me. I held the rifle and he pulled on the rod (a 3 piece aluminum rod). The damn rod actually pulled apart. Not stripped but broke. In the process I pulled my back and I'm now on some good stuff to ease the pain. Anyway, I went back over to the house, got my pan charger (FFFFg), nipple wrench, and cap and we went out to the 'pit' at 8:30 last night. Two attempts to fire the jag out were unseccessful. Finally on the third try, after putting about 20 gr of FFFFg into the snail and tapping it working it into the breech, it came out.
Then to add insult to injury, literally, when I got home and started to clean the rifle, a patch somehow slipped off the jag and stayed in the barrel. No problem I thought, I got my worm out and just could not grab the patch. So I put my brush on the rod and tried that, figuring the bristles would grab it and pull it out. NOPE. Now what?? Went to my box of cleaning supplies, grabbed a 35 cal rilfe brush and put it down the bore and spun it a few times, finally grabbinng the patch. It was rolled up in a ball at the bottom of the breech.
All in all, it was not a good night. Old man Murphy was hanging around with me all night it seemed.
I can't wait to get up to the camp on Sunday to just relax.