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

[Jack]

Well, almost.
I use a loading block for Minie balls when I'm hunting. My blocks hold 4 Minie balls.
The block does make loading a bit easier, and, in my case, the Minie ball's grooves which have lube on them are covered by the block, keeping lube off everything else, and grit out of the lube.