Anyone Ever Try a 28 Gauge Load Like This?

[Flash Pan Dan]

I was shooting my new Chief’s trade gun from North Star West (fantastic gun by the way) and having a grand old time when I was fooling around with different loads and I came up with this;

55 gr. of 2Fg Schuetzen, 1 over powder card, 20 gr. of Cream of Wheat, .535 ball, 20 CoW on top of the ball, and 1 over shot card. This is in a .540 bore trade gun.

It shot fantastic groups from 25 yards. The real test will be at fifty yards, but has anyone tried or heard of this before?

 

[roundball]

Sure haven't...kind of understand that putting something like cream-of-wheat over the powder would serve as an over-powder wad of sorts.
But don't know what benefit there would / should / could be in putting cream-of-wheat over the top of a ball and then still using an OS card.

What's the thinking there...that the CoW on top of the ball, specifically down around the circumference, somehow acts as a patch would as the ball traveled back up the bore??

 

[Snow on the Roof]

Sure haven't...kind of understand that putting something like cream-of-wheat over the powder would serve as an over-powder wad of sorts.
But don't know what benefit there would / should / could be in putting cream-of-wheat over the top of a ball and then still using an OS card.

What's the thinking there...that the CoW on top of the ball, specifically down around the circumference, somehow acts as a patch would as the ball traveled back up the bore??

Agree with RB. The CoW would act as a buffer behind the ball and would disipate very quickly hense having no effect on the ball once leaving the muzzle. CoW after the ball I'm at a loss as to what advantage it would serve... :hmm: this has me wondering what effect a CoW wad would have on a shot load? One would think it could tighten patterns or at the least not put a hole in the pattern as a 1/2" fiber wad can do.

Snow

 

[Flash Pan Dan]

I tried a few shots without the CoW over the ball and it shot well but when I tried with the CoW over the ball it shot a little better. I tried the CoW over the ball by accident the first time, someone was talking to me while loading, so I just put a OS card on the load and shot it and it when right into the group I already started. So I kept doing it and noticed a slight improvement. I will go back and do more shooting at 50 yards. That should really separate the chaff from the wheat.

 

[Macon Due]

Ok,I'm dense............what the heck is a "CoW" wad?
Macon

 

[TinStar]

What the heck!! If it shoots real good at fifty yards why argue with success!
Besides it's a nice way to make sure the deer gets his proper amount of fiber!! :rotf:

TinStar
Soli Deo Gloria!

 

[Flash Pan Dan]

CoW - Cream of Wheat

 

[Macon Due]

Well hell.............LOL..............TY.
Macon :grin:

 

[Leatherbelly]

Does it smell like burnt cornbread when you shoot it? hehehe

 

[Leatherbelly]

Why was half my post deleted?

 

[Flash Pan Dan]

Just an update on the test I conducted using Cream of Wheat as a filler. Well, I tried shooting the load I mentioned above at 50 yards from a rest and the results were disappointing. I fired 4 groups and my best group was 5 ½ inches, whereas firing a load of 69 grains of 3Fg with a wool felt wad and a .520 round ball and .015 patch yielded groups of 2 to 3 ½ inches from a rest. I started to run out of time and powder but I got one group of three shots all touching using 55 grains of 3Fg with that ball and patch combo. Next outing I will test that load more thoroughly.