Here’s a smaller version for muskets and rifles:
And here’s a 2 minute Inrange video on the idea: https://youtu.be/82b-McZF81k?si=
Here’s a smaller version for muskets and rifles:
And here’s a 2 minute Inrange video on the idea: https://youtu.be/82b-McZF81k?si=
If you had loaded a gun anticipating an attack that never came you had to either use one of these or fire off the round and make all you fellow soldiers think they’re being attacked.
Or if you accidentally load it multiple times.
The preferred method of unloading a muzzleloader is firing it, so this must have been for misfires.