Help for a new BP shooter: How hard should it be to load?

Most of those $200 dollar kit guns have barrels that are button rifled. The rifling grooves are swaged, not cut, by a carbide "button" that is pulled through the barrel by a powerful hydraulic press.
They have shallow grooves and can't easily load oversized ball/patch combinations that can easily be loaded in Green Mountain barrels with their deep cut grooves.
 
Since i like DIY, I decided to try and make my own. Got a steel rod from Home Depot, dremelled a concave end into it to fit the ball, feels like it will work great!

Going to try and shoot it today.
 
Steel on steel is a bad idea.
You'll be way better off with something like brass or alloy.
Its about wear, you want the cheapest part (the rod) to wear instead of the more expensive barrel.
 
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