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I cannot tell the difference - I mostly shoot ML and would certainly notice while cleaning.

I have lubed many fiber wads for m-loaders and shells. If I am shooting a round of clays with a m-l I lube when I load, with dawn and water or crisco oil. Don't soak the wads as the lube soaks in and makes the wad heavy and it becomes a slug which blows your patterns. For hunting with m-l and loading shells, I use a 50/50 mix of beeswax and crisco and dip the wads in while it is melted. The thick lube tends to stay on the outside of the wad where it is needed. If it is soaking in too much refrigerate the wads before dipping. ;;;LK

For what it is worth. I have never used lubed wads in any of my gauges. I just use dry fiber wads right out of the bag. I have used them on upland game and clays with black powder and smokeless from 28 gauge thru 4 gauge with excellent results. I have tested all my loads at the pattern board and have not found any of them to be wanting.

A few years ago I chronographed dry vs. lubed Circle Fly wads in 12 bore RMC brass shells loaded with 1.25 ounces of lead and 27.5 gr of Longshot. The dry wads yielded erratic results: mean = 1032 fps, standard deviation = 73, while the lubed ones were much faster and more consistent: mean = 1287, SD=30. I didn't pattern these.

Did you lube your nitro wads and how many did you use?

No, I didn't. Just used one.

If you use a couple of them and lube at least one, you don't have to lube the cushion wad. At least that has been my experience.

The fiber wads sold by BP and Precision are from Circle Fly. The other wads mentioned from BP are what they call waxed hard cards. These wads work very well. I use them in my 16ga loads and people don't believe that I am using fiber wads because there is no confetti in the air. The fiber wads in the Hull and Gamebore cartridges are similar to the waxed hard card wads.

If this is true, they are, nonetheless, completely different than what Circle Fly sells under their own name, and they perform much differently in pressure and velocity testing.

I've been using ox-yoke wads that are totally saturated. They disintegrate when fired but not confetti. When I use dry wads then it is like a wedding. But I don't notice a difference between loads and I wonder, as I mentioned in my previous thread on Plastic Shot Cups, if the bottom of the shot cup helps to seal any gas leak.