I've read the threads on trapshooters.com concerning loose AAHS basewads. A few weeks ago, our club had some high water and wads, etc. drifted into piles at the high water mark. I took the time to comb through a large pile of wads and did not find one separate AAHS basewad. I did find a bunch of of separate Federal pedestals that are a part of their wads. A lot of AAHS shells are shot at the club and I'll think I would have found at least one if this was really the problem as alleged. I'm beginning to wonder if those reported are really pieces of the Federal wads. I've reloaded quite a few of the AAHS is 12, 20, 28 and .410. So far, I have no issues with them.

Johnpe