Felt wads

[Trapper]

Does anyone know where I can get 16 guage felt wads(.662), I've been looking all over with no luck. For now I've been cutting out my own outta old wool blanket scraps. Works real good.65 gr of ffg, 2 wool wads, 105 gr of #5 shot and one overshot card= 132 pellets in a 20 inch circle at 25 yards. I'm just getting tired of cutting out the wads, lazy in my old age I guess. I want to spend more time huntin not in front of the drill press.
Trapper

 

[paulvallandigham]

Contact Circle Fly. If they don't make them, they would know who does. I doubt anyone is producing them as the 16 gauge is an almost obsolete gauge, which began dying when they brought out the 20 ga. Magnum shotgun ammo. You can load a 12 ga. down to 16 gauge performance, or load up the 20 ga. magnum to do the same. That is sad, as the 16 gauge is a good gauge for all kinds of hunting. If you have a BP shotgun in 16 gauge that is in good condition to be shot, you are a fortunate man.

I just looked at Google on 16 gauge Wool Wads, and it appears that you can make your own, and buy the wool fabric to make them, but I didn't see any commercial source for them. I do know that Circle Fly makes 16 gauge wads, but the ones advertised are the cushion wads, card wads, and OP wads, all made of paper, and not wool. Get a link and phone number for Circle Fly on the Member's Resources section at the top of the index page for this forum. Ox Yoke used to make wool wads, but I understand that a new company has taken over that production, so you might have to do a little searching to find out if the new company is making wool wads in 16 gauge.

 

[Roy]

http://www.trackofthewolf.com/(S(5z...tId=2&subId=37&styleId=118&PageSize=25&Page=2

halfway down the page

 

[paulvallandigham]

Roy: None of these are made of wool. I had already checked TOTW trying to help this member find 16 gauge WOOL wads. He doesn't say why they had to be made of wool, but that is what he asks about.

 

[Roy]

my bad

 

[paulvallandigham]

Naw! Just a senior moment! ( They start awfully young these days!)

 

[Roy]

one of those days... too hot to think, but atleast its a good day for the rust.

 

[Dave K]

Contact "Mike's Quality Black Powder Wads". His email address [email protected]. Or you can contact his Dad at Flintlocks Inc. 317-933-3441. I get all my shotgun supplies from them. Good people. If you are ever to Friendship, they are the first huge booth on the left.

 

[Trapper]

Paul, I tried the fiber wads,1/2 wads, 1/3wads, 1/4 wads but they all blew donut holes in the pattern at 25 yards. 4 overshot cards produced decent patterns but not as tight as the 2 wool wads. Thanks guys, I'll contact some of these companies.
Trapper

 

[paulvallandigham]

Try putting a wool wad in between a couple of the OS cards, to act as a cushion. Are you using FFg powder in your smoothbore, or FFFg? I think you get tighter patterns using FFg powder, in my experience. You can also tighten patterns by reducing the powder charge while leaving the shot load the same. instead of 75 grains( 2 3/4 drams) of powder, try 62 grains( 2 1/4 drams) of powder with either one ounce or one and one- eight ounce of shot.

 

[ffffg]

IM guessing when you finally find them and see the price of them, youl be back at the drill press.. dave

 

[roundball]

IM guessing when you finally find them and see the price of them, youl be back at the drill press.. dave

THey are handy and I've used them for years in all my rifles...began using them in my smoothbores but as I've actually begun shooting some larger volumns of smoothbore shot loads, I began to feel the cost of that many Oxyoke wonderwads on my[url] budget...in[/url] particular they're more expensive for the larger shotgun sizes.

So I ordered / tried some Circle Fly prelubed cushion wads just yesterday in preparing some Dove loads, and fortunately the results were fantastic.

The good news for me is that they were only $10.00/500 from Circle Fly themselves...(probably even cheaper somewhere else)...turns out I needed to slice them in half for best patterns so they became even cheaper at $10.00 / 1000...a penny apiece compared to 10-12 cents apiece for the large Oxyoke wonderwads.

Really looking forward to doves and skeet targets now without having to wipe between shots...