I'm a BP novice as you can see in my other thread asking for advice. Here's a story regarding fouling from this week - I shot ~4 rounds through my .54 Hawken, and then I decided to swab the barrel. I put a patch all the way down the bore, and then as I start to pull it back - it sticks about 1.5" from the lock (so I only have about 3-4" of rod to pull on to try to remove it). I struggle with it for awhile :banghead:, and then I remember some of the things I've read on here and think, maybe if I remove the nipple and put a few pinches of powder down the breach (is that the right term?) - I can just unscrew the rod from the patch tool and "shoot" it out. It worked - I shot it into some sand and recovered the tool. Was this good problem solving or did I almost blow myself up?