SASS249
Senior Member
Darkhorse: Not really. Closest thing I found were descriptions of loading early rifles without patches and using a hammer to seat the ball. Never found a reference to short starter use with patched groundball and never saw any original bag with one. I think we use a larger ball than was common. I actually shot some 457 balls out of a50 using really thick patching and they were easy to start a d pretty accurate.