I suppose we could. Of course, from what I have read the performance of these wire cartridges could be "iffy". But, then, who knows?
What one learns in looking through some of the old shotgun literature is just how little is actually "new". Just in W.W. Greener's book, for example: Ported barrels? They're in there. Straight-rifled shotgun barrels? Yep! Monte Carlo stocks? Yeah, sorta, if one wishes to count Greener's "Rational Stock". One-piece wads? You bet!
Greener's one-piece paper "Swedish wads" bear a remarkable resemblance to today's one-piece plastic wads. About the only major differences seem to be in materials and in the fact that today's plastic wads are "vented". The "Swedish wads seem to have performed well, too. If one wades through Greener's data it shows full choke pattern per centages that range from the high 70%s to the low 80%s when smokeless powder was used. Per centages seemed to be just slightly lower when black powder was used. This is "pretty tall stuff" if one factors in the crude smokeless powders and relatively soft shot that were in use, at the time.
