Roundball Loading Boards.

[Adam Helmer]

I watched an old frontier movie Circa 1757 last week with Gary Cooper and other stars from that era. I observed Cooper had a roundball loading block on a leather thong around his neck. It was about the size of my hand and held 8 or 10 patched roundballs ready to pop into the rifle muzzle right after the powder charge was dropped.

I took Lori dawg to the shed and we made up roundball loading boards for the .45, .50 and .54 caliber flintlock muzzleloaders. Mine hold 9 roundballs and really are very servicable compared to trying to gather balls and patches out of the possibles bag. Who else uses a roundball loading board?

I like making custom stuff for my woods loafing with the loyal hound.

Adam