Wads?

[Gunlaker]

I took the .45-70 out today to play with some different wad combinations. On the suggestion of Dan T, I shot two targets with a single 0.060" LDPE wad which did pretty well for vertical. My usual combination of a 0.030" Veg King wad and a 0.060" LDPE did the best though, keeping 9 out of 10 into just a shade over 1 moa of vertical at 200m. The third load was just a 0.030" Veg King wad and had some issues as half of the shots landed nice and close together, but the others were flyers, two of which were very wide.

Interestingly I usually use 20:1 and decided to load with 16:1 this time, actually closer to 15.5:1 ( 1.45" BACO Money, .445", 8lb Seth Cole). I noticed that I wasn't getting very good shredding of the inner wrap like I usually get. Do you think that the alloy change could do that?

thanks,

Chris.