There must be a book, "Stupid Things to do When Starting Muzzleloading". The same dumb mistakes are done over an over again, by those who must not have a search engine to find out others have done the same dumb thing before. But someone always has to hold the turd in some other manner they think no one else has tried, to see if they CAN polish it. News flash. Many of us have done this for years, and others have done it for centuries before us. You are not going to re-invent the wheel. Take advantage of the wheels we know that go round and round.
