Most people don’t know enough to properly load a black powder firearm.................
I’ve seen it done and with a little reasoning and some experience, I’d think I could figure it out.
Problem is we’re not talking about a black powder firearm, this one is for smokeless powder and that where the problem is. One of these rifles that I’ve personally seen was filled with the same type device the owner used for his black powder rifle. He duped 100 grains of 3031 down the tube.
That is the problem, and these are a smokeless powder muzzle loader. It has generally been established that most were blown up in the following manner. They were hunting, had it loaded, forgot whether it was loaded or not, so poured another charge and seated a bullet, not following the normal muzzle loader policy of having a mark on the ramrod that lets you know if it’s loaded or not. Double charge of smokeless along with a pair of 250 sabots makes a nice mess of a rifle!