I searched the basement and came up with fiber wads, cork wads, and hard felt wads, but none of the spongy wax soaked felt wads. Back when the thinking was that a 'cushion' wad was necessary for 'good' patterns. I have wanted to, but not had the time to, run some patterns with columns of all hard card wads vs columns using a combination of soft and hard wads. I expect that the fiber filler wads were used because they were cheaper to mfg. than the hard wads?
C.G.B.
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