Years back one time I used plastic wads with BP. It was 150 shots in a one day shoot. The gun started kicking harder at the end. Opening the barrels and looking down - ah, big long worms were growing in my barrels. You couldn't see daylight at the other end. It took quite awhile to clean them. Finally used a tornado brush with a drill motor on the end of a cleaning rod to get the plastic out. A year or two back I had loaded up some 100gr/1oz loads. Man, the recoil and report were different. I was shooting skeet and those loads just seemed to totally break the birds instantly. I usually keep from 6 to 8 boxes of smoke in the closet at the club just in case they're needed. I have papers in my notebook with loads just showing the powder and shot - nothing said about primers or wads, which were fiber, of course. Things seemed easier back then.
Last edited by Paul Harm; 08/25/18 11:38 AM.
