Fired 21 rounds of .45 cal with my custom blend powder. I say that because its mostly white (starch) powder with some crimson and some real black powder mixed in. After a lot of experimenting I had about four pounds of this. It works fine, actually.
Then when I went to load the 22nd shot I could not find the ramrod. The last shot I fired did not look, sound or recoil any differently than the others. However the plastic Traditions ramrod could not be found. I even looked downrange, nothing. I had gotten distracted by a conversation with the police officer in the next lane over about illegal alien cops.
Point being that ramrod was such a lightweight piece of junk I apparently shot it out of the rifle without even noticing I had done it. A replacement ramrod on Amazon was $25. A wooden dowel from Home Depot cost $1.24 and was long enough to make two replacements, both of which work better than the original.