You use whatever fills the shell. When loading Winchester paper shells with 1 1/8 ounce target loads, we used to use a card wad, either .135 or .200, and a 1/2" felt wad. The Federal paper shell required a couple of 3/8" felt wads as I recall. There was more room in the purple shells. In the Winchester target style paper shells, a thin card wad, probably .135, and a 3/8 felt wad would probably be all you could get in there with 1 1/4 ounces of shot. I doubt that Winchester 1 1/2 ounce short magnum factory loads had much wad at all. Winchester probably abbreviated the base wad in their Super-X cases. We loaded everything in target empties because that was all we had. Austin, why don't you open up a paper Super-X shell and see what's in there?
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