Originally Posted by Breechplug

Well I feel like a fool............
Back say 20+ years ago when I first started MLer hunting I borrowed my father in laws mler, he showed me how to load it and he did the slam the rod into the ball thing untill the ram rod bounced out of the barrel and he caught it, he said the ball had to be seated good on the powder. Also when I went on a few (Randavoes) or however you spell it, the guy's there were loading there mlers the same way, so I just always asssumed it was the way to do it.
I'd pour in the GOEX 3f, then the patch and ball, and then throw the ram rod down the barrel many times untill it bounced out of the end of the barrel and I caught it. My groups were always good and I killed a bunch of deer with his old mler. Had it not been for us being able to use Inlines and Sabots now I probably would have still been loading this way.
I was'nt going to comment on this and just feel stupid and keep it to myself. I guess you do learn something new every day.........
(BP)