LER BEAUREGARD
Engineers in Bountiful, UT

4476598, Oct 16, 1984

Dec 24, 1981

6/334319

LeR Beauregard - Bountiful UT

B25F 100

7170

A device for starting a ball in a muzzle-loading firearm and for removing arrowheads lodged in trees or the like, where the arrowheads include threaded fingers extending rearwardly for receiving a correspondingly threaded opening in the forward end of an arrow shaft. The arrow shaft is screwable onto and unscrewable from the threaded finger of the arrowhead and when the arrow, with the arrowhead, is shot into a tree, the arrow shaft is simply unscrewed from the arrowhead. The device of the invention includes an elongate shank, one end of which has a threaded opening therein for screwing onto the threaded finger of the arrowhead, a stop disposed at the other end of the shaft, and a weighted sleeve disposed about the shank to slide therealong. After the elongate shank is screwed onto the arrowhead embedded in the tree, the weighted sleeve is repetitively moved against the stop on the shank to force the device away from the tree and thereby extract the arrowhead from its embedded position. A tamping rod is attachable to the other end of the shaft so that the device may be used to start a ball in the barrel of a muzzle-loading firearm.