OK that’s a little joke. I got this rifle from a man for free and it was a little rusty. Couple days back I bought over 1700 Hornady 8 mm reloading projectiles from a guy and we got to talking about muzzleloaders and he said he had one he would give me that had a stuck ball in the barrel. I put powder under the nipple and fired the old ball out. She cleaned up pretty good . FBC