Cushion wads ,I hope Mike Brooks sees this

[Crow#21957]

There are so many different wads and all and most are 1/4in. Or so. When I read Cushion Wads,1/2 in. Pops in my head.
So when you guys say cushion wads I've got a pic below.,,which do you reccomend? This is mainly aimed at what Mike reccomended.
Thanks. I just don't want to buy a bunch of diff wads but I guess we all go through this.
Ok pic below left to right which ones or something else?

 

[pacanis]

Hmm... cushion wads...

I thought I had found the perfect load using one half inch lubed cushion wad split into two. I put one half under the shot and one half over the shot. So I'd have the same amount of lube traveling down the bore.
And then I ran into a youtuber who was not only shooting his cushion wads dry...
He was stacking two on top of each other under the shot... Surely he must be shooting donut patterns, right?

So yesterday I tried it out. Both my way of splitting the wad, only using it dry.
And his way of stacking two dry wads.

I could see no difference. And the gun cleaned up as if I was shooting lubed cushion wads.
Small sample size, but I may never lube a cushion wad again. I'll just take to swabbing the bore if needed.

The ones I have are 1/2" Circle Fly from TOTW.

 

[Trigger]

If your not trying to turkey a cyl bore.... even just nitro and overshot works fine.

I like to use a wool wad or two on top of the nitro as cushion and the overshot on top.

I started all wool. even though cost more.. it was simple 1 wad to have load and it worked good.. the wool doesn't seem to press fit down tight. Nitro card feels solid. the overshot cards are cheap and press fit nice.

I didn't know? I Though I was going to have to build a squirrels nest in there to shoot a pattern.

Just give the stock a little love Tapp to make sure the powder travels to the nipple. I havnt had a slow ignition.

 

[stikshooter]

If your not trying to turkey a cyl bore.... even just nitro and overshot works fine.

I like to use a wool wad or two on top of the nitro as cushion and the overshot on top.

I started all wool. even though cost more.. it was simple 1 wad to have load and it worked good.. the wool doesn't seem to press fit down tight. Nitro card feels solid. the overshot cards are cheap and press fit nice.

I didn't know? I Though I was going to have to build a squirrels nest in there to shoot a pattern.

Just give the stock a little love Tapp to make sure the powder travels to the nipple. I havnt had a slow ignition.

I use Dura Felt wads ,punch them out with a (cheap Harbor Freight ) hole punch set ($15- $20.) dry

 

[Trigger]

Dura felt.. looked it up just now there advertised for the use that's cool.

My grandfather used to spend a day punching wads... his cartridges look like squirrels reloaded them. I've never tried one though in a gun he could no longer get Italian powder and didn't understand American lol anything I had left said no good in Italian on the box.

 

[stikshooter]

Dura felt.. looked it up just now there advertised for the use that's cool.

My grandfather used to spend a day punching wads... his cartridges look like squirrels reloaded them. I've never tried one though in a gun he could no longer get Italian powder and didn't understand American lol anything I had left said no good in Italian on the box.

I can set you up with some if you want to try what every one has done with dry or lubed in what caliber ? Ed

 

[Trigger]

That's cool... it's OK though just knowing is good. I have a 12ga punch.. it works i tried the cereal box overshot.

The arch punches are cheap. I was going to order some spent like 3 days trying to find the info on what sizes...

10ga.. 12ga..

I do have the sizes saved somewhere.