I just ordered some pre-lubed felt wads to try with some TC Maxi conicals. In previous posts I read that some shooters use an over powder card in addition to a wad. What are the advantages of this and is this necessary? I'm looking for accuracy while hunting, but also simplicity.
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You would put the over powder card between the powder and the lubed wad to keep the lube away from the powder.
If you're going to all that trouble you might as well shoot a patched ball. ;-)
If you're going to all that trouble you might as well shoot a patched ball. ;-)
I misunderstood...I thought he meant putting a card on top of the conical to keep it from moving or something...but if the question was about ALSO putting a card over the powder in addition to the Oxyoke wonderwad, then no...not only would it serve no purpose, it would be counter-beneficial to have a card on the powder behind the Oxyoke wad on top.
The Oxyoke wonderwads are injected with lube which liquifies under heat & pressure and coats the walls of the bore as it's moving up so the combustion fouling that's developing behind it is kept minimized by that lube.
If the card was underneath the wad, it would prevent the lube from coming into play with the combustion and scrape any lube that made it to the bore walls right off of them.
Seeems like there's been an enormous amount of "armchair OP card theory" introduced to this forum during the past year...
The Oxyoke wonderwads are injected with lube which liquifies under heat & pressure and coats the walls of the bore as it's moving up so the combustion fouling that's developing behind it is kept minimized by that lube.
If the card was underneath the wad, it would prevent the lube from coming into play with the combustion and scrape any lube that made it to the bore walls right off of them.
Seeems like there's been an enormous amount of "armchair OP card theory" introduced to this forum during the past year...
Yep. Makes you wonder how they ate venison and turkey and survived hostile attacks all those hundreds of years before such useful things were introduced. ;-)
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They sure didn't have chronographs, or anything else to tell them how fast a ball was going. They loaded the guns a shot, then used their knives and axes and their rifles as clubs, and some of them didn't survive.
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By the way...speaking of basics...when I was up around Albany in September, my Sister's late husband had a ton of shooting equipment left...she gave me any of the muzzleloading supplies I could use...AND...I brough back 3 of 6 huge hornet's nests he had collected, to experiment with the material as a wad like back in the day...works as advertised, seals fine, doesn't burn etc, etc.
The only 'Uhmmm" I had about the whole test was how delicate and fluffy the material is...got into a routine of tearing off and stuffing the first couple inches of muzzle with it to ensure I had enough when I seated it down because it compressed so flat...those folks sure were resourceful back then.
My tests were with PRBs...need to test it with my turkey shot load...that would be a hoot...kill a longbeard with a Flintlock using hornet's nest as wad material like they did back in the day...
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