which wad?

[Kurt]

Gary I use the paper cartons the OJ and Soy milk comes in. I like a very thin wad between the powder and the lube wad to get the most heat on the lube and a soft wad so it does not remove all the lube left behind. The front wad stack under the bullet I want a tight fit that is stiff to remove the fouling left behind by the previous shot. My PP bullets don't have a scrapper front groove to do this job so the wad has to do this to keep the bore with less fouling. My lube wads are very soft, very soft, that needs a well fitting over the powder wad and one that keeps the oil in the soft lube migrating down into the powder.

I have done a lot of snow bank shooting for several consecutive years mostly because the warm up days crystalizes the dry snow changing the recovered bullets slightly. What I have found using cork and felt wads with the 1/16 or my alloy I use with a slight amount of antimony will not upset enough to fill the grooves. Also I have found a lot of bullets with gas cuts mostly using felt. I went through this at Lodi one year with the .44-100 Ren straight getting unexplained flyers some off the target as much as 5' and dirt diggers. I never had this problem using a soft alloy in the .50 or using a GG bullet in all of my rifles that except a GG bullet, but the PP is a different story. I like the cork wads because they give me a very low ES with the GG but the PP suffer so felt and cork is out for me in the PP loads.
I just got back from the range using the .40-65 testing the final load before going to Merrell Wis to shoot some longer ranges and at Alma next weekend for the regionals where I would like to break in little Missy.
Going to a soft or hard wad things change more so for the lighter calibers..........Kurt