LDPE wads and paper patching

[Gunlaker]

The weather finally cooperated enough for me to bring the .45-110 and chronograph to the range to test the rubberized cellulose ( Felpro ) wads.

I'm going to have to do more experimenting as I got some pretty odd results. Velocity with the new wad stack ( 0.060" Veg King, 0.060" rubberized cork gasket, 0.060" LDPE ) came up quite a bit from my old setup ( 0.060" Veg King, 0.060" LDPE ) but was still about 10fps less than using a grease cookie.

The really odd part was that accuracy completely disappeared with the rubberized cellulose. Only three of eight shots hit the paper at 200m. It seemed like the paper wasn't releasing as I got very little confetti. I can't really explain that. I then switched back to my standard load using the lube cookie and accuracy was great.

I'll likely stick with the lube cookie for the gong shoot as I'm running out of time to fiddle with the load. I'll definitely have to mess with this gasket material again as it sure seems to work well for others.

Chris.