what doyou use to cut patchs at muzzle
When on the range a simple pair of scissors. Just knock the ball and patch strip under the muzzle line, grip the patch and pinch it together and the scissors will cut that right off. Then you finish it off with the long nose on the short starter and finally the ramrod.
When I hunt, I carry a small folding knife in my pocket. I also carry a strip of cloth in a zip lock bag that has been made pre saturated but dry. Again, knock it under the crown, cut it and finish seating it.
I saturate my strip with moose milk, thenring it out. I then dry it on some old window screeen. Now the moisture is out of it, but all the oil is in the cloth. You can shoot it this way. And being dry, it will not contaminate a hunting load.