Veg. fiber overpowder wads........

[Kurt]

No Gary I haven't.
With the lube wads or felt wads the thin wads get oil soaked with the poster wads but I don't think it matters as far as the accuracy that I can tell and when I have checked the powder after scraping the top 1/8 " off and it still goes off and burns with a flash when it is lit with a match.

[Lumpy Grits]

Thx again, Kurt
Gary

[rdnck]

For greasers, just cut your over powder wads out of ordinary Cut-Rite wax paper that you buy at the grocery store. Lube will not migrate through them. Pre compress the powder, then install the wad, then seat the bullet. I've been doing it this way for years.

[Lumpy Grits]

THX for that great idea Rick.
Is there any concern with gas-cutting of the bullet without the "seal" of the fiber wad?
Gary

[rdnck]

You get the seal with a proper fitting bullet, not the wad. And I ain't Rick, BTW. Different varmint. Shoot straight, rdnck.

[Lumpy Grits]

Sorry, may bad about remembering names
Thanks for the help
Will give the wax paper a try this week.
Gary

[bruce moulds]

one situation i like 0.060 veg wads in the 45/2.4 case is when shooting pp to bore bullets. reason is that i size the necks to have a little neck tension, and mostly buy wads.
the 0.060 veg wads which are made for groove dia bullets do not bulge up in the cases like thinner ones, sitting in the case flat.
i prefer veg to plastic for this.
it is just a theory that the larger diameter wad will expand out to groove dia as the case obturates, offering full protection to the base of the bullet, and have no chance of going off centre.
for gg, i use 0.030 plastic or veg with no preference, in order to get a bit more powder in.
keep safe,
bruce.

[Hiwall55]

I use .023 wads cut from Minute Maid OJ containers Same thickness for over 10 years and the coating on them guarantees no lube will soak into the wad

[Old Jim]

So Bill, is that the reason that ol' Sharps has that wonderful citric aroma every time you fire it?

Jim

[Kurt]

This is my take on wads for the GG bullets you asked for.

I think this is a personal preference because the diameter of a GG bullet is mostly groove or slightly over groove diameter so lube migration is not a problem. A wad is mostly there to protect the bullet base from getting distorted from the powder granules. 1FG beats the base more then 2 or 3F. Here is an example of what a GG bullet base will look like with no wad or just a thin wax paper wad using a 1/30 alloy bullet. The harder alloys will not have base damage as bad but even 1/16 will still get the powder impressions just not as deep. So I use just a single milk carton or a thin wad cut from serial boxes.

For the PP bullets I use wad stacks that are different for the alloy temper and finished bullet diameter. I wont go into this because you asked for GG bullets because it gets a little lengthy protecting the bullet more so then keeping the lube from migrating to the powder especially the lube I use for the PP bullets.

Kurt