ORIGINAL: superman8791
I have a dumb question..i am going to get my first muzzleloader in a couple of months and i was wondering ..what do you do if you hunt and dont shoot it???Do you unload it..how??
I pull loads or blow them out with compressed air at the end of each day's hunt, patch wipe the bore, load fresh the next time out...so I have no loaded rifle to worry about, no rifle to clean, no gun shots to call attention to the area I'm hunting, no gun shots to make local residents nervous, no gun shots after dark to make game wardens suspect illegal shooting, etc, etc.
If compressed air is not available, I seal the nipple or vent, and pull the load with a puller made fror that purpose...there's no ignition source inside the barrel, and worse case, it's no more dangerous than loading the barrel in the first place...less actually as there's no compression involved.