Jerry made the mistake of telling me his uncle Charlie Pool had made a breech seating tool that was a copy of the old George C Schoyen breech seater for Ballard rifles. He said he had copied his uncle Charlie's clone for a machine shop class many decades ago, and I asked if he'd consider making another for me?
So got a call earlier this week saying it was done, and that he'd forgotten how many strange, and difficult angles it too to mill all the required shapes to build the tool! But he got it done, and in his typical fashion, it's a work of art that's very functional too!
Here it is with my own Ballard #6 Schuetzen, rebarreled and modified by George C. Schoyen in the 1800's. This Ballard has Schoyen .32-40 barrel, his own set triggers, and a Schoyen palm rest.
It has enough leverage to easily seat any .32 caliber bullet into the rifling, and I was able to easily seat a soft lead .375" round ball into the rifling with ease to slug the bore using the tool.
I'm going to have Jerry make seater cases for several other calibers of single shots I own, so I can swap them to the tool to use on other Ballard rifles I have.