I’ve been tinkering with historic or primitive wadding in my Jacky Brown Carolina smoothbore with some success. I worked up both shot and ball loads with shredded cedar bark wadding which seemed useful, and have taken a few squirrels and one rabbit using the shot load. Today I stepped it up a level and collected this fat 6-pointer. Load was 85 gr. Goex FFFg, shredded cedar bark over powder, home-cast .600’’ ball loaded bare, sprue up, then a smaller overshot wad of cedar bark. Sitting at the base of a tree, the shot was 40 yards and I hit him in the heart, a pass-thru. He left in a hurry and looking healthy, but only made it 50 yards into the trash before going down.
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