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So do I, and I've got a wooden dowel cut at an angle for getting tighties in, the come out much easier after firing funnily enough.

It was either a muzzle loader and he was ramming the charge, or it was a snider and he was tapping the breechblock to get a stuck case out. They have no primary extraction.
Bet you had fun shooting...

Quick sell the children, the cat, and all the dependent relatives you have.

I had a 3 band land pattern conversion with the mk1 "suicide" block and I'm still here. Undeserved name IMO.

Been tempted to turn up to a service rifle shoot with its replacement the martini henry but the timed stages would be a challenge.
There was its precurser the enfield muzzle loader at the big bore...